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News June 2006:

• 'It's too late to stop now', The Dubliners' European tour 2006
• Help The Dubliners collect their own history The Dubliners have appointed official collectors, Per Jappée and Dr. Gerhard Braas to help collect private video footage and audio recordings of any of their concerts, privately taken photographs on and off stage, recordings of their TV/Radio appearances. If you have something interesting, you will of course get rare material in return. Please see Patsy Watchorn's official page for more information.
• Will there finally be an Official Dubliners website? News are expected shortly. In the meantime, join the Official Dubliners Forum for questions and debate.

• And then suddenly there was a tour in England after all.. They are slowing down, somebody said. So far, over 70 concerts all over Europe are confirmed in 2006.
• Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley's new cd, El Amor de mi Vida, is now released on Daisy Records. Apart from the worst recordcover in history, it has some interesting songs; the titletrack El Amor de mi Vida (Warren Zevon), Hang Down your Head (Tom Waits), The Ballad of Henry Lee (Nick Cave), Farewell (Bob Dylan), The Good old Days (The Eels) and When God made me (Neil Young) among others. Of course there are two songs recorded on earlier albums, A couple more Years and We had it all. The album can be ordered from Irish Music Mail
• Brand new DVD and cd - Luke Kelly - The Performer. Previously unreleased live tracks from the golden era! Order it from Irishmusicmail.com
• The Dubliners' Dublin and The Dubliners - Live in Germany (Five Beards on the Road) are rereleased on DVD
• A brand new mini-cd, The Dubliners Tour Sampler, with new studio/live songs was for sale at the German tour this year, but unfortunately it will not be made available for general sale
• Seán and James Cannon will play several concerts in Germany in January/February 2006

• Barney will be back for the Dutch tour after illness, and Patsy Watchorn will be the special guest for the rest of this year.
• And then they were four... Sadly Paddy Reilly has left The Dubliners after exactly nine years, to pursue a solocareer. Or to retire. No replacement has been made, but Patsy Watchorn was guest musician at the Austrian part of the tour. There will be more guests for the rest of the concerts this year.
• A DVD of previously unreleased tv-shows, i.e. shows with Luke Kelly, is on its way. Hopefully it will be in the shops before Christmas.
• The official website is (?) developing. Visit The Dubliners.net

• European Tourdates 2005

• Read Jim McCann's summer news-release
• Visit Jim McCann's new website here. A new compilation cd, Seems like a long time, has also been released.
• Luke Kelly Memorial concert at the Olympia, Dublin May 8th.
• European Tourdates 2004
• The Hellfire Club - Ronnie Drew, Eamonn Campbell, Terry Woods, Phillip Chevron and Paul Harrigan, will play at the Skagen Festival in Denmark on June 26th, and in Florø, Norway on June 18th.
• The Dubliners were honoured with "A Lifetime Achievement Award" at the prestigious Meteor Irish Music Awards on March 1st. Photos Thank you Tom O'Brien for keeping me up-to-date!
• Live 40th Anniversary - new 2-disc DVD. Buy it here
• Support the Shane MacGowan-petition for the removal of his manager Joey Cashman. Eamonn Campbell is one of 3000 signatures
• Listen to concert from Metropol, Austria Sept. 2002

• 20 years ago today, Luke Kelly died. The Dubliners, family and friends will mark this anniversary with a private ceremony and there will be a special fundraising concert in April/May.

News December 2003:

• Read Jim McCann's latest news-release
• European Tourdates 2004
• More old tourdates

• The three first albums have been remastered and rereleased on Castle/Sanctuary with bonustracks/unreleased tracks.

• Lyrics of all recorded songs have been added, thanks to Per Jappee!
• Read Jim McCann's latest news-letter from August.
• The impossible project "Complete tourdates" has started. If you know of any concertdates or tv/radio-performance, please e-mail me.
• Photos from receiving Silver Discs in London April 2003
• Collage from Tønsberg, Norway, May 23rd

• Read Jim McCann's latest news-release
• European Tourdates 2003
• Mike Hanrahan, Keith Donald and Ronnie Drew are working on Ronnie's long awaited biography.
• Ronnie Drew and Mike Hanrahan will record a live cd/DVD in the next couple of months

News February 2003:

• Read Jim McCann's latest news-release
• Live 40th Anniversary - new 2-cd/DVD/VHS released on Claddagh. CD is CCCD 290, DVD is CCDVD290. Recorded in June 2002 at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin with Ronnie Drew and Jim McCann. More info on cd
• Updated trade-page

News December 2002:

• Read Jim McCann's latest news-release
• Over 5000 people are expected to this year's last concert at The Point, Dublin on Dec. 30th

• The yearly rumours that The Dubs will retire at the end of the year are not true. Dates are already coming in for 2003.
• A new concert-DVD and VHS, recorded at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin on June 26th this year, will soon be released. The DVD also includes interviews with Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna and John Sheahan
• Some very sad news; Derek Bell of The Chieftains has passed away at the age of 67.
• Jim McCann will not be joining The Dubs for the tour in Holland and Germany due to illness. Read Jim's latest news-release.

• The Dubliners - 40 Years has now been released. More

News April 2002:

• The Dubliners - 40 Years has now been released. More

News March 2002:

• Live online broadcast from The Dubliners' concert at Trafalgar Square, London, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 5 pm GMT. Visit BBC Online for more info.
• The 40 YEARS CELEBRATION cd will be released in week 12!
• The 40th Celebration Tour is taking shape. Added more dates Thanks to Jim McCann & Peter Heinz

• Ronnie Drew & Eleanor Shanley German Tour, January 2002
• 40 Years A-Greying: The Dubliners are recording a new 'reunion' album for the 40th anniversary next year with special guests Ronnie Drew and Jim McCann. Ronnie and Jim will also be special guests on some concerts during the European Tour next year.

• Jim McCann Holland Tour November 2001

News August 2001:

• A new live-cd with Jim McCann will be released in September. The album was recorded June30th at the Skagen Folk Festival in Denmark. More
• Barney McKenna will receive the GSTIM Hall of Fame Award Thursday Aug.16th at the Radison SAS Hotel in Galway. Tribute concert includes Ronnie Drew, John Sheahan and Tony MacMahon.

News July 2001:

• Ronnie Drew German/Dutch Tour 2001

News May 2001:

• The Dubliners German Tour 2001

News March 2001:

• Ronnie Drew's new cd ,A couple more Years has finally been released.

• Ronnie Drew will be back in studio later this summer to record a new cd.
• The Dubliners European Tour 2000
• Jim McCann Dutch Tour November 2000

• Barney McKenna is recovering well after his recent illness, and will soon be back on stage.
• The Dubliners European Tour 2000
• Added a few photos from the first concert of this year's UK Tour (Birmingham, March 24th) Thanks again to Graham Pallot for photos and help.
• Barney McKenna can be heard on The Chieftains' new album, Water from the Well. Barney went to school with Paddy Moloney, and almost became a member of The Chieftains in the early 60s.

• A new cd of 9 previously unreleased tracks by Luke Kelly is released in connection with the 'Luke' video which was put out for sale late November last year.
  The cd is called Thank you for the Days and is produced by Noel Pearson. It is released as Ferndale Films FM0001
  Most of the tracks were recorded before Luke joined The Dubliners, or when he was not a member of the group. The cd also contains the complete Thank you for the Days. The soundquality is remarkably good, and well worth the money.           See Tracklist for more information.
  The Luke Kelly documentary is released as FV001.
  The cd and video can be ordered by contacting Ferndale Films. Or write/phone/fax them at:
  Ferndale Films Ltd
  61 Merrion Square
  Dublin 2
  Ireland
  Phone: 353-1-676 8890/353-1-676 8891
  Fax: 353-1-676 8874

• Jim McCann will release his new soloalbum in February/March.
• Added Hijmen de Kuipers almost complete lists of CDs and LPs.
  Hijmen will be very happy for any additions to the list.

• Tourdates Denmark and England 2000. More dates coming up.

• Ronnie Drew's brilliant new album, "The Humour is on me now" is out on Dolphin Records, and I'm told it has international distribution, unlike "Dirty Rotten Shame".
  Ronnie has also got his own website at http://www.ronniedrew.com/

• The Dubliners have just completed three very successful concerts in Norway.
• Seán Cannon and his son James have recorded an EP which will be released soon.
• The documentary on Luke Kelly had a preview in Dublin in early July. Expected release is November 17th.

May 8th 1999:

• Ronnie Drew's new soloalbum "The Humour is on me now" is completed and will be out on Dara Records (Ireland) soon. The album will, unlike "Dirty Rotten Shame", get international distribution. Ronnie will also be touring Spain and USA in May and June with Mike Hanrahan.
• The documentary on Luke Kelly is now going well after a few German obstacles lately, and will be finished as planned later this year.