 He also sang The Ballad of "Tom Williams" and "Our Lads in Crumlin Jail" on the same album.This album was branded as "ludicrous and full of delusion" by a then member of Dáil Éireann in the same year, 1978.Between 1980 and 1987 The Dublin City Ramblers scored most of their hits, beginning with "The Rare Ould Times" through "Flight of Earls", "John O'Dreams" to "The Punch and Judy Man," "The Ferryman," and others.