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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]
Mexican embassy, Raglan Road. Raglan Road is one of Dublin's most expensive residential roads. [15] As of June 2014, the most expensive rental property in Ireland was 17 Raglan Road with a rent of €15,000 per month. [16] The road is notable for its listed early Victorian and Edwardian mansions. The embassies of Turkey, Morocco, Colombia, and ...
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
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.
Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland.Born into a working-class household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens and by his early 20s had become involved in the folk music revival there.
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]
His second non-fiction book explores the women who inspired some of Ireland's great love songs, 'On Raglan Road - Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them' (Collins Press /Gills 2016). Hanberry was invited by RTE to come on board as writer and researcher on their recent programme 'Search for Ireland's Best Loves Folk Song'.