Paddy Reilly is one of Ireland’s best known ballad singers. His 1983 recording of The Fields of Athenry stayed in the Irish charts for 72 weeks, and The Town I Loved So Well and Rose of Allendale are just as closely tied to his voice. After many years as a solo performer, he sang with The Dubliners from 1996 to 2005.
Paddy Reilly
Ballad singer; The Fields of Athenry, The Dubliners
- Born
- 18 October 1939, Rathcoole, County Dublin (86)
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