The Man Who Built America

The Man Who Built America is the eighth studio album by Irish Celtic rock band Horslips, released in 1979. Recorded at Advision Studios in London, the album marks a definitive shift toward a heavier, more commercial arena rock and power-pop sound while still keeping elements of their traditional Irish folk-rock roots.

Conceptually, the album focuses on the Irish emigration experience to the United States. The title track portrays "the man who built America" not as a single historical figure, but as the collective workforce of ordinary Irish immigrants who built the railways, sailed the ships, and worked the land.