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Raglan Road street sign-showing Dublin 4 post code "On Raglan Road" is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. [1] In the poem, the speaker recalls, while walking on a "quiet street," a love affair that he had with a much younger woman.
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel Tarry Flynn, and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". [1]
Raglan Road (Irish: Bóthar Raglan) [1] is a road running between Pembroke Road and Clyde Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. It is the setting of Patrick Kavanagh 's poem " On Raglan Road ". History
It has become well known as the melody to which Patrick Kavanagh's "On Raglan Road" is sung. [3] It is often played as a march and is one of the first tunes that a student of Irish music will learn. O'Connellan's "Fáinne Geal an Lae" is often confused with the later pentatonic melody to which the words "The Dawning of the Day" is set.
"On Raglan Road" – Patrick Kavanagh poem to the 19th-century melody "The Dawning of the Day" [1] "The Old Plaid Shawl" – written by Francis Arthur Fahy, recorded by Willie Brady among others. [71] "The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill" – written by Thomas P. Keenan from Castletownroche, recorded by Foster and Allen, among others [70]
Raglan Road can refer to: "On Raglan Road," an Irish song based on a poem by Patrick Kavanagh; Raglan Road (street), a street in Dublin that gave the poem its name
The poem On Raglan Road was put to music when the poet met Luke Kelly of the well-known Irish band The Dubliners in a pub in Dublin. [2] It was set to the music of the traditional song "The Dawning of the Day" (Fáinne Geal an Lae).
In the 1940s and 50s, the writer Brendan Behan lived in Ballsbridge, as did the poet Patrick Kavanagh, who lived at 62 Pembroke Road. Busts of Behan and Kavanagh are on display at two pubs along Pembroke Road, Searson's and the Wellington. Kavanagh wrote his famous poem On Raglan Road about a girl he met on that street in 1944. [6]