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In the 1980s, the group briefly renamed itself The Rovers. During this period, their song "Wasn't That a Party" led to crossover success in the country rock genre. The Irish Rovers have represented Canada at five World Expos, and in 2018 were honoured as one of Ireland's greatest exports at Dublin, Ireland's EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
So we (George, Joe and Jim) decided to visit Will in Calgary, ended up staying there, and the Irish Rovers became four."". [2] Joe moved his family out from Toronto, and the band continued in Calgary. Ferguson's voice is heard in several Irish Rovers recordings, including "The Orange and the Green" and the 1981
The Rovers may refer to: The Irish Rovers, Canadian-Irish folk group created in 1963 that renamed itself The Rovers for part of the 1980s; The Rovers, 1980 album by the above group; The Rovers, Australian television series; Rovers, British television series; Blackburn Rovers F.C., English Premier League football (soccer) club
Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer and later manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. The strip first appeared in the Tiger in 1954, before giving its name to a weekly (and later monthly) comic, published by IPC and Fleetway from 1976 until 1995, in which it was the main feature.
Joseph Ronald Drew [1] (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) [2] was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.. He sang lead vocals on the singles "Seven Drunken Nights" and "The Irish Rover", which both charted in the UK top 10 and were performed on TOTP.
The Rover is a 2014 Australian dystopian Western drama film written and directed by David Michôd and based on a story by Michôd and Joel Edgerton. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It is a contemporary western taking place in the Australian outback , ten years after a global economic collapse. [ 9 ]
George Millar (born 14 April 1947) [1] is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and co-founder and leader of the Irish folk group The Irish Rovers, which formed in Toronto, Canada in 1963 [2] and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover".
Tom Tully (died 2013) was a noted British comic writer, mostly of sports and action-adventure stories. He was the longest-running writer of the popular football-themed strip Roy of the Rovers, which he wrote for much of Roy Race's playing career until the weekly comic closed in 1993.