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studio album by Chris Rea

Shamrock Diaries is the seventh studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in This album represents the beginning of a creative and commercial zenith for Rea.

Shamrock Diaries was a huge seller in Europe, reaching the top 20 in several countries including Ireland, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and spent forty two weeks in the Dutch charts, peaking at No.

3.^[3] The album was also successful in Australia, where it charted in the top ^[4] "Stainsby Girls" became Rea's first Top 30 single since 's "Fool If You Think It's Over".^[2] In , Magnet Records was taken over by Warner Bros.

Records, who re-released Shamrock Diaries with a significantly remixed version of "Josephine". The original version was used in the deluxe re-issue of the album.

Composition

Rea wrote the material during a protracted stay in Ireland.^[5] In a fresh interview f