{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Straight Outta Ireland | type = Compilation | artist = {{hlist|The Would Be's|Young Dubliners|Katell Keineg|The Golden Horde|Spirit Merchants|Susan McKeown|Lir|Leslie Dowdall|The Men They Couldn't Hang|Diesel Heart|The Fatima Mansions}} | cover = Straight_Outta_Ireland.jpg | alt = | released = March 9, 1993 | recorded = | studio = | genre = *World music *pop rock | length = 42:44 | label = BMG Rights Management | producer = *Aiden Foley *Catherine Farley *Jimi Zhivago *Lir Foley | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=AllMusic />|noprose=yes}}
'''''Straight Outta Ireland''''' is compilation album featuring the first ever collection of contemporary Irish artists.<ref name=AllMusic>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/straight-outta-ireland-mw0000095690 Various Artists. Straight Outta Ireland], AllMusic. 1993. Accessed November 19, 2025.</ref> A play of the 1989 N.W.A album ''Straight Outta Compton'', the project features "the most exceptional new talent to come out of Ireland in the 90's."<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/release/8381801-Various-Straight-Outta-Ireland Various Artists, Straight Outta Ireland, CD]. Orphans Productions (1993). Discogs. Accessed November 19, 2025.</ref> The album was released by BMG Rights Management on March 9, 1993.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Time/_FLuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Straight+Outta+Ireland+album "Rock Me, I'm Irish."]. ''Time''. April 5, 1993. Google Books. Accessed November 19, 2025.</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''Straight Outta Ireland'' track listing | extra_column = Artist | title1 = My Radio Sounds Different in the Dark | writer1 = {{hlist|Eamonn Finnegan |Mattie Finnegan}} | extra1 = The Would Be's | length1 = 4:03 | title2 = Mama | note2 = | writer2 = {{hlist|Paul O'Toole|Keith Roberts}} | extra2 = Young Dubliners | length2 = 4:58 | title3 = Destiny's Darling | note3 = | writer3 = Katell Keineg | extra3 = Katell Keineg | length3 = 3:36 | title4 = Endless Weekend | writer4 = Simon Carmody | extra4 = The Golden Horde | length4 = 3:39 | title5 = Birdland | writer5 = John Ryan | extra5 = Spirit Merchants | length5 = 4:02 | title6 = If I Were You | writer6 = Susan McKeown | extra6 = Susan McKeown and The Chanting House | length6 = 3:44 | title7 = In a Day | writer7 = {{hlist|Ronan Byrne|David Hopkins|Craig Hutchinson|Robert Malone| David McGuinness}} | extra7 = Lir | length7 = 4:59 | title8 = Hand on the Water | writer8 = {{hlist|Paul Brennan |Leslie Dowdall}} | extra8 = Leslie Dowdall | length8 = 3:52 | title9 = You're the One | writer9 = {{hlist|Phillip Frederick Odgers}} | extra9 = The Men They Couldn't Hang | length9 = 2:49 | title10 = Change of Innocence | writer10 = Sean Sweeney | extra10 = Diesel Heart | length10 = 3:46 | title11 = Valley of the Dead Cars | note11 = | writer11 = Cathal Coughlan | extra11 = The Fatima Mansions | length11 = 3:16 | total_length = 42:44 }}
==Personnel== *Aiden Foley - Engineer, Producer *Andy Whitmore - Keyboards *Ann Norda - Photo Illustration *Arnie Acosta - Mastering *Bren Holmes - Bass *Brian Johnson - Design *Catherine Farley - Compilation Producer, Producer *Doug Haverty - Art Direction *Jimi Zhivago - Producer *Liam Murphy - Programming *Lir Foley - Producer *Michelle Meena - Project Consultant *Oliver Strauss - Engineer
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Category:1993 compilation albums Category:BMG Rights Management albums
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