"[2] Robert Shelton in The New York Times, noting that the Clancys and Makem had yet to pick a professional name for themselves, suggested that "this group of Irish-American actor-singers" could "perk up our juke boxes and air waves" with their songs.

Other backup singers joining in created the "effect of an Irish Republican Army battalion having itself a time in a pub" in his opinion.

[3] (The future name of the group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, was added to later re-issues of the album.)

Professor of Folklore Kenneth Goldstein, who periodically worked for Tradition Records, called the album "sparkling."

Stressing that the singers were real Irishmen, he asserted that "a finer bunch of voices never raised a glass and a song together.