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The Dubliners with Luke Kelly - Banks of the Roses (1964)

Here's your St. Patrick's Day tune.

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Luke Kelly

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The Luke Kelly Festival is back! The FREE family event is once again taking place in Smithfield Square on the 18th and 19th May between 12pm and 6pm, come along to celebrate the life and legacy of the great Luke Kelly

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#OTD in 2012 – Death of Bernard Noël 'Banjo Barney' McKenna, a musician and a much-loved founding member of The Dubliners.

Barney McKenna was the last surviving founding member of the Irish folk group the Dubliners. With Luke Kelly’s powerful voice and force of nature on stage, Ronnie Drew’s gravelly memorable vocal sound, it was McKenna’s playing of the tenor banjo, coupled with John Sheahan’s fiddle, that gave the Dubliners their original instrumental quality. In the process, McKenna redefined the role of the banjo…

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Luke Kelly playing the banjo with Ciarán Bourke on the tin whistle.

Fiddlers’s Club in Dublin City, at Church Street

May 1963.

Photo: Roy Bedell RTÉ Stills Archive

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Whiskey In The Jar - Luke Kelly and The Dubliners - 1968

Got this request from @dolphincliffs and since I played the Metallica cover yesterday and it's very similar to the Thin Lizzy version, I decided to go more traditional. Might not be what you had in mind but I love irish folk music and I hope you do too.

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From Words on the Page to Musical Masterpiece: The Story of "Raglan Road"

I met Patrick Kavanagh a few years ago while walking along the Grand Canal in Dublin. He was sitting on a bench, looking at the water with the gaze of somebody who is contemplating his life. If you live in Dublin you have probably seen Kavanagh’s statue. If you want to visit Dublin, that's a walk you should probably consider.

Patrick Kavanagh was one of the most important poets of the 20th century in Ireland, and his work often drew on his experiences of growing up in rural Ireland. He was also a great lover of the Irish countryside, and many of his poems reflect this passion.

Today is St Patrick’s day and I want to celebrate one of my favourite Irish songs: Raglan Road. 

It’s Patrick Kavanagh’s poem turned into a song by Luke Kelly (The Dubliners). The story goes that Kavanagh was walking along Raglan Road in Ballsbridge (not far away from his sculpture, by the way) one autumn evening in 1946 when he saw a young woman named Hilda Moriarty. He was struck by her beauty and was inspired to write the poem that was first published in the Irish Press in 1946, and it quickly became popular.

The poem speaks to the human experience of love and loss, and it has a universal appeal that has made it popular with people from all over the world. 

According to legend, Kavanagh was in the Bailey pub in Dublin when he spotted Luke Kelly and asked him to sing the poem that he had written. Kelly was initially reluctant, as he didn't think the poem would work as a song, but Kavanagh insisted and Kelly eventually agreed. A story confirmed by Luke Kelly himself on RTE - Irish public television -  in 1979. 

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“And I said, let grief be a falling leaf —at the dawning of the day…….”

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You know a characther is fucked up and traumatized when they are wearing one of these

Edit: half of this characther were put against my will

Edit 2: i reached the fucking tag limit

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being completely obsessed with him stretching you out

18+ mdni

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he’s always been very well endowed, when you first started hooking up you realized he’s much bigger than anyone you’ve ever been with before- at first it was intimidating, until you found out how much you love being filled up by him. He gently runs his tip up and down your slit, making you whimper as it gently grazes your clit, he lets out a pleased hum as he watches your reaction. “Easy baby, I’ll be gentle I promise- stay still for me” you try so hard to ground yourself, gripping onto the bed sheets as you anticipate his entry, you could feel your arousal dripping down to your ass. He lines himself up with your entrance and slowly slips the tip in, immediately his girth starts to stretch you, you always gasp softly no matter how many times you’ve done this it still feels like the first.

A deep groan rumbles through his chest “shit, you’re so fucking wet for me sweetheart.” your eyes shut as the pleasure washes over you, he slowly pumps into you adding a little bit more of his length with each stroke until he’s all the way in. You can feel every detail of his cock against your walls, you’ve never known such bliss before- you didn’t even want to cum, you wanted to stay in this moment forever.

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Luke Kelly

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Luke Kelly

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#OTD in Irish History | 30 January:

1649 – King Charles I is beheaded for treason. He was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. When Richard Brandon, Executioner for the City of London refused involvement in the execution, emissaries were sent to Ireland, Scotland and Wales in search of a volunteer. There is much speculation about the masked executioner – it…

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TRIBUTE TO LUKE KELLY - LIFE SIZE BRONZE BY JOHN COLL

Luke Kelly's legacy and contributions to Irish music and culture have been described as "iconic" and have been captured in a number of documentaries and anthologies.

PHOTOGRAPHED 7 FEBRUARY 2023 Luke Kelly’s legacy and contributions to Irish music and culture have been described as “iconic” and have been captured in a number of documentaries and anthologies. The influence of his Scottish grandmother was influential in Kelly’s help in preserving important traditional Scottish songs such as “Mormond Braes”, the Canadian folk song “Peggy Gordon”, Robert Burns’…

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Day #227: Today I Listened to ‘Raglan Road’ by Luke Kelly. Wow, there are more synthesizers in Irish folk music than I expected. You can walk into any pub in Dublin, and practicing in the corner there’ll be fiddler, a bodhrán player, and someone with a Yamaha DX7 polyphonic synth.

The instrumentation’s good, using the old ‘slightly change the arrangement with every verse’ method. The arhythmic banjo picking makes a nice subtle pad for Kelly to sing over, and the flute follows the vocal line without distracting from it.

The issue I have is how slowly he sings the vocal line. Melodically it sounds great, but I find it very hard to follow the lyrics when it can take 30 seconds to get to the end of a sentence. It’s like in movie trailers when they show you text in little snippets: “THIS SUMMER… [rapidly edited clips] … GET READY TO… [more footage] … YOU’VE FORGOTTEN HOW THIS SENTENCE STARTED, DIDN’T YOU DOM?”