Songs with Dublin Street Names

Zico

Take me up to Monto, monto, monto

Mav11

Watling Street is referenced twice in the novel:

"Portobello, Equadocta, Therecocta,Percorello; he pours into the softclad shellborn the hard cash earned in Watling Street; his birth proved accidental shows is death its grave mistake"

No mention of the other permutations!

tibruit

"Up"....from that gem of a movie that is "Sing Street".

"Up to the stars she shows me,

Dame Street, George`s Street miles below me,

Up where the world won`t let us down."

dasdog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZL3XCIsjBQ

Sunken Foal- Grafton Street

magicbastarder

was this mentioned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4asSbKhqAGM

magicbastarder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGNxz7zeU10

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magicbastarder

also, 'under clery's clock' by the radiators; burgh quay is mentioned.

dasdog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i5RHFxtJ4g

More so a pub than a street

Hodors Appletart

Daffodil Mulligan mentions Francis Street by name, and The Coombe

Lankum had a good version on their first album

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QhFstzYP6ok

Imhof Tank

Fun thread.

Few more

The Five Lamps boys were comin on strong - Rat Trap

In Stoneybatter and Patrick's Close, up and aound the Glouster Diamond and down by Napper Tandy's house - The Spanish Lady

And a real favourite - Of "Grafton Street and Durby Square", and those of whom I care, and you, in Dublin - Thin Lizzy

Billy Mays

Another one from The Dubliners. Two streets mentioned in this one, Clarendon Street and Eden Quay

https://youtu.be/yYKIEcXC0Y0?si=3L87OiF150bx3EoU

Skipping rope still turning, children at their play

In and out of Clarendon Street, in and out to pray

Me uncle had a wolfhound that never had to pee

'til Hairy Lemon snatched it down on Eden Quay

CrowdedHouse

The Dying Rebel

The night was dark and the fight was over

The moon shone down O’Connell Street

I stood alone where brave men perished

Those men have gone their God to meet

My only son was shot in Dublin

Fighting for his country bold

He fought for Ireland and Ireland only

The Harp and Shamrock, Green, White and Gold

Dank Janniels

Eustace Street by Delorentos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjt1R9GRG4

gaiscioch

Not sure if there are any streets mentioned it it, but The Night Before Larry was Stretched (Elvis Costello and many others did versions of it) was written in Dublin slang back in the 18th century. The architect and famous song collector Frank Harte (1933 - 2005) had an album named Dublin Street Songs (1967), more of which can be found here: https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2015/05/frank-harte-dublin-street-songs-tsdl172/

Also, Colm Ó Lochlainn's two famous books on Irish street ballads, Irish Street Ballads (1939) and More Irish Street Ballads (1965), would be a great resource to find. Here's a list of the songs mentioned in the former: https://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/op01.htm#Oloccol

UCD has now digitalised a lot of the sources Ó Lochlainn's work was based upon and they can be read here: https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:6022

The Mudcat Café.org website is a fantastic source for everybody who is interested in traditional songs, their origins, meanings and versions. You can ask questions on it about this sort of thing and there's usually plenty of people knowledgable enough to answer.

Lastly, An Góilín Traditional Singers' Club meets every Friday evening in Club na Múinteoirí on Parnell Square and there will always be Dublin songs performed there, with a few notable singers who focus on that genre and would be very helpful for this topic.

https://goilin.com/

Charles Babbage

When Joxer went to Stuttgart, according to Christy Moore, "In Germany the autobahn, 'twas like the Long Mile Road"

elperello

"Up went Nelson in old Dublin

All along O'Connell Street the stones and rubble flew...."

https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/up-went-nelson-lyrics-and-chords.html