Live For Ireland
Live For Ireland (1986)

  1. Maggie's Farm - U2
  2. Seven Into the Sea - In Tua Nua
  3. Many Rivers to Cross - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  4. Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
  5. Boil the Breakfast Early - The Chieftains
  6. Steel River - Chris Rea
  7. Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris De Burgh
  8. The Bridge - Cactus World News
  9. Joey's On the Street Again - The Boomtown Rats
  10. Theme From Harry's Game - Clannad
  11. Feel It Now - The Fountainhead
  12. Here Comes the Knight - Van Morrison
  13. The Island - Paul Brady
  14. Make It Work - Christy Moore and Paul Doran
From the album liner, by Niall Matthews and Tony Bolana:
Over the last twenty years, there has been a surge of new and exciting talent in rock and contemporary music in Ireland; witness the artists on this album. Their influence and the influence of many other emerging Irish bands is set to make an even greater impact on the music scene in the years to come than heretofore.
This live album is a record and a recording of an extraordinary day in Irish social history - May 17th, 1986. On that day, thirty Irish bands stormed their way through a fourteen hour concert which gathered the biggest ever television audience in Ireland.
The concert was called "Self-Aid" and the purpose of this celebration of Irish contemporary music was to highlight and help the chronic unemployment problem in Ireland. In May of 1986 there were nearly a quarter of a million people unemployed in Ireland - this in a country of just three and a half million people.
The concert itself was the largest ever staged in Ireland. The musicians taking part in Self-Aid gave their talents and time free of charge, not only for the concert but also for this album, the profits of which will go to the Self-Aid Trust to further the work begun in May 1986.
This album is a tribute to those musicians who took part in Self-Aid and to all those artists we wish to say "Thank You" for your talent and selfless generosity.

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