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2 unusual facts about Luke Kelly


National Club Golfer

Its design team consists of Andrew Kenworthy and Daniel Cooper, while the sales team comprises Richard Holt, Mark Kilburn, Luke Kelly and Neil Braddish.

Red Hill Mining Town

U2 performed Luke Kelly's "Springhill Mining Disaster" which tells the story of a mining disaster in Nova Scotia.


21 Years On

Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 1983, this was the first album by The Dubliners to feature Seán Cannon, who joined the group when Luke Kelly could no longer perform regularly due to a brain tumour.

Blantyre, South Lanarkshire

Christy Moore and Luke Kelly along with local Blantyre singer/songwriter Drew Semple recorded well-known versions of the traditional song about this disaster.

Finnegan Wakes

But it was also their first to feature their first established line-up of Ronnie Drew (vocals/guitar), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo)/mandolin), Luke Kelly (vocals/banjo), Ciaran Bourke (vocals/guitar/tin whistle/harmonica) and John Sheahan (fiddle/tin whistle/mandolin).

O'Donoghue's Pub

Included are portraits of The Dubliners (Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke, John Sheahan and Barney McKenna as well as later members Eamonn Campbell and Sean Cannon) that hang to the right of the entrance where the nightly sessions are played.


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On Raglan Road

The Luke Kelly version was also featured in a poignant scene in the 2008 film In Bruges.