[2] The album was initially released by the band in Australia in 2006 and, after additional re-mixing by Dónal Lunny at Longbeard Studios in Dublin, was re-released in the autumn of 2007 under license to Compass Records.

[2] The album opens with "O'Donoghue's", written and sung by Andy Irvine reminiscing about his early days in Dublin, when he first started frequenting this pub in August 1962.

In eleven verses, he vividly recalls these happy times, naming many of the people who were part of his transition from actor to musician, leading to his touring days with Sweeney's Men and up to his departure "for the Pirin Mountains" in the late summer of 1968.

[2] Then comes the band's arrangement of "Sail Away Ladies/Walking in the Parlor", two old-timey tunes, the first recorded by Uncle Bunt Stephens, a Tennessee fiddler, in 1925 and the second by Dr D. Dix Hollis in Alabama, the same year.

The whole piece is performed at an accelerating pace and ends with a Romanian tune repeated in increasingly higher keys, thus further accentuating the aural effect of a runaway train gaining speed.