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Rocky Road to Dublin, the Glossary

"Rocky Road to Dublin" is a 19th-century Irish song written by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool, England from his home in Tuam, Ireland.^[1]

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Culture in Mullingar
Dublin (city) in fiction
Songs about Ireland
The Pogues songs
Tuam
Works about human migration

Affray

In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of one or more persons in a public place to the terror (in à l'effroi) of ordinary people.

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Anti-Irish sentiment

Anti-Irish sentiment, also Hibernophobia, is bigotry against the Irish people or individuals.

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Athlone

Athlone is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland.

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Bad Haggis

Bad Haggis is a band based in the United States and led by piper Eric Rigler.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Barleyjuice

Barleyjuice is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Belfast Food

Belfast Food is a music band from Rijeka, Croatia, performing Irish folk and rock music under their current name since 1996.

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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.

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Blaggards

Blaggards are an American Celtic rock band from Houston, Texas.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Brobdingnagian Bards

The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas, United States.

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Celtic Thunder

Celtic Thunder is an Irish singing group and stage show known for its eclectic, theatrical style show.

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Christy Moore

Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Clandestine (band)

Clandestine is a Celtic music group from Houston, Texas.

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Concert band

A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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County Westmeath

County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí or simply An Iarmhí) is a county in Ireland.

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Cruachan (band)

Cruachan (named after the archaeological site of Rathcroghan, also known as Cruachan) are an Irish folk metal band from Dublin that have been active since the 1990s.

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Culann's Hounds

Culann's Hounds are a traditional Irish folk band from San Francisco, California, United States.

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Damien Dempsey

Damien Dempsey (born 9 June 1975) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk contemporary lyrics that deliver social and political commentaries on Irish society.

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Damien Leith

Damien Leo Leith (born 18 January 1976, in Dublin) is an Irish-Australian singer–songwriter.

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Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Fiachna Ó Braonáin

Fiachna Ó Braonáin (born 27 November 1965) plays the guitar and sings vocals with the Irish band Hothouse Flowers.

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Fiddler's Green (band)

Fiddler's Green is a German band that plays Irish folk music.

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Foden's Band

Foden's Band (originally Foden's Motor Works Band, and variants with sponsors' names) is a brass band from Sandbach in Cheshire.

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Gaelic Storm

Gaelic Storm is a Celtic band founded in Santa Monica, California, in 1996.

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Green Roses

Green Roses is the third studio album by the Serbian Irish folk/Celtic rock band Orthodox Celts released in 1999.

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Harry Clifton (singer)

Henry Robert Clifton (baptised 20 May 1832 – 15 July 1872) was an English music hall singer, songwriter and entertainer.

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Holyhead

Holyhead (Caergybi, "Cybi's fort") is the largest town and a community in the county of Isle of Anglesey, Wales, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census.

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Irish traditional music

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.

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Irishman in America

Irishman in America is the thirteenth studio album by Australian-born Irish singer and composer Johnny Logan, released in Europe in September 2008.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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Johnny Logan (singer)

Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard (born 13 May 1954), also known professionally as Johnny Logan, is an Australian-born Irish singer, songwriter and musician.

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Lankum

Lankum are a contemporary Irish folk music group from Dublin, consisting of multi-instrumentalists Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Luke Kelly

Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland.

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Mad Dog Mcrea

Mad Dog Mcrea are a British folk band from Plymouth, Devon, England, their music blends a mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz and bluegrass.

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Motion sickness

Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and expected motion.

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Mullingar

Mullingar is the county town of County Westmeath in Ireland.

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Music of Ireland

Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.

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Orthodox Celts

Orthodox Celts is a Serbian band formed in Belgrade in 1992 which plays Irish folk music combined with rock elements.

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Paddy Reilly

Patrick Reilly (born 18 October 1939) is an Irish folk singer and guitarist.

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Peter Graham (composer)

Peter Graham (born 1958) is a prolific British composer for brass band.

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Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae.

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River Shannon

The River Shannon (Abhainn na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the major river on the island of Ireland, and at in length, is the longest river in the British and Irish Isles.

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Robbery

Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.

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Ryan's Fancy

Ryan’s Fancy was an Irish folk music group active from 1971–1983.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shillelagh

A shillelagh (sail éille or saill éalaigh, "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top.

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Songs from Ireland

Songs from Ireland is the eighth album by ''Australian Idol'' 2006 winner Damien Leith.

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Standard (music)

In music, a standard is a musical composition of established popularity, considered part of the "standard repertoire" of one or several genres.

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Stowaway

A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus.

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The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy.

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The Clancy Brothers

The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk music group that developed initially as a part of the American folk music revival.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The High Kings

The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008.

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The Irish Descendants

The Irish Descendants are a folk group from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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The Long Black Veil (album)

The Long Black Veil is an album by the traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains.

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The Ornament Tree

The Ornament Tree is the 18th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released virtually simultaneously with another album, Sketches.

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The Permanent Cure

The Permanent Cure is an Irish folk group.

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The Pogues

The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish phrase ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse".

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Tossers

The Tossers are an American six-piece Celtic punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, formed in July 1993.

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Tommy Makem

Thomas Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller.

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Tuam

Tuam (Tuaim, meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway.

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.

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Young Dubliners

The Young Dubliners (sometimes shortened to the Young Dubs or just The Dubs) is an Irish-American rock band formed in Santa Monica, California in 1988.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Road_to_Dublin

Also known as D K Gavan, D. K. Gavan, DK Gavan, Rock Road to Dublin, The Rock Road to Dublin, The Rocky Road To Dublin.

, Songs from Ireland, Standard (music), Stowaway, The Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The High Kings, The Irish Descendants, The Long Black Veil (album), The Ornament Tree, The Permanent Cure, The Pogues, The Rolling Stones, The Tossers, Tommy Makem, Tuam, Ulysses (novel), Wheat, Young Dubliners.

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See also

Culture in Mullingar

Dublin (city) in fiction

Songs about Ireland

The Pogues songs

Tuam

Works about human migration

References