#the rocky road to dublin

[sinful-roxy]

In the merry month of June from me home I started Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother

[eyeballsoup7310]

Listened to rocky road to Dublin for the first time at like 2 last night/this morning and imagine my surprise when it’s the exact same tune(?) as Favoured Son, a song I’ve been listening to regularly for the past like 7 months

[oooklathemok]

The Pogues ● The Rocky Road To Dublin

[madcap-maggie]

Yeah this is gonna be on repeat for the immediate and foreseeable future

[sometimecynic]

Then off to reap the corn

Leave where I was born

Cut a stout blackthorn

To banish ghosts and goblin

Brand-new pair of brogues

Rattling o'er the bogs

Frightening all the dogs

On the rocky road to Dublin

One, two, three, four, five!

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

day 1 of mechs women's week, starting strong with ivy! backstory/origin. literally always crying sobbing biting etc about her backstory/lack thereof. what do you mean her home burned down what do you MEAN she can't remember shit

@mechanismswomensweek

[ID: A digital drawing of Ivy Alexandia from the Mechanisms curled up in what seems to be the corner of a library. Ivy is a mid-sized white woman with dark red hair and a hooked nose. She pulls her knees to her chest, wrapping her arms around them, tucking her head town. Ivy's eyes are closed, and it looks as if she is squeezing them shut as hard as she can. She is wearing an ankle-length purple-grey skirt, a reddish gray button-up, with cuffs around her elbows, as well as a dark red vest and a muted teal tie with matching boots. Ivy's hair is shaved short on the sides, but is long on the top, and pulled back into a ponytail that reaches down to the crook of her neck. In the shaved bits of her head, there are small bits of circuitry to represent her mechanism. She is wearing long golden heart-shaped earrings. Around her feet are two brown books, one flat on the floor next to her heel, the other propped up, leaning against a bookshelf in the background. There is also blurry sheet music and a silver flute on the ground. The background appears to be a small nook between two shelves in a library, with vague book shapes. The entire background is done in reds and purples, and there is a slight pinkish hue to the entirety of the drawing. End ID]

[soapdi-spencer]

Will never forgive myself for not knowing Rocky Road to Dublin existed before listening to UDAD.. Like I'm literally Irish, I'm bringing shame to this family

[loki-nightfire]

Happy st Patrick's, shadowfam! If you are not Irish or Christian, it's still a good occasion to wear green or/and shamrock jewelry and drink some beer on Friday evening! Cheers, beautiful people from Magnus and from me!

reverse AU, shadowhunter Magnus is bringing beer to his warlock

[rabbityfrogs]

I recently have gotten a Hammered Dulcimer and am going to being learning to play it soon, and so ive been listening to lots of people playing it.

Hammered Dulcimers are usually used in funky folk music, and lots of mech songs happen to also be based on folk music! This has several times led to me listening to a fun folk tune being played by someone with a dulcimer, and then they switch to a different song and i just instinctively start yelling out "BUY YOURSELF YOUR FREEDOM WITH YOUR BLOODIED HANDS, IN SERVICE TO THE FAMILY AS THE FAVOURED SON" before i realise their playing an irish folk song and not Favoured Son by the Mechanisms

[arthur-lesters-tummy]

the butcher!

[color-coded-cryptid]

ryuga kishatu is irish i don’t make the rules

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

An Bairille/Rocky Road to Dublin

Note: This song is commonly sung in both Irish Gaelic (also known as Gaeilge) and English. If you have heard any version of this song, it counts as having heard it.

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Walking around dublin listening to lankum so they know I'm Not Like Other Tourists

[oooklathemok]

The Pogues - The Rocky Road To Dublin

[notquiteaghost]

a problem with trad folk is you'll hear a song and you'll think oh i am sure i have heard that exact tune before and you will be right! you have! but good fucking luck narrowing it down further than that