Talk:Rocky Road to Dublin

message: "The Rocky Road to Dublin" is also a (very controversial!) documentary film created by Peter Lennon in 1968. I'm not sure how to enter the film into Wikipedia, but it should be documented here! An extensive description can be found here: http://www.iol.ie/~galfilm/filmwest/25rocky.htm
The main fascination about this film is that it was never really shown in Ireland, because the "authorities" feared it. Is seems to be still classified as banned in Ireland, as IMDB seems to suggest: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192534/
:I would suggest making an article here Rocky Road to Dublin (film) or The Rocky Road to Dublin (film), depending on the films real title.
:Spelemann 14:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Nick Cooper 00:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Documentary

message: I know that lyrics are often open to individual interpretations, however in the first line I have never seen nor heard the "Merry month of June".  The versions I have heard have been the "Merry month of May".  Is there an 'official' version to cite?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.169.189.226 (talk) 14:36, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: June fits the rhyme, May does not. It's the only thing that makes sense, and it's what I remember. I'm changing it. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 19:10, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: May fits the alliteration, June does not.  June is kind of iffy at best for rhyming, and it isn't uncommon for songs to alliteration in that way so it seems to me that may makes just as much sense as June.  The oldest versions of the song I've listened to (recordings that is) have mostly been May, and all the recordings of Luke Kelly that I've heard have been that way.  Personally I'm inclined to believe that May might even be the original word and that June could be a more modern change.  71.43.131.74 (talk) 19:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The "June" version is sourced from 1901.  Period.  Skippy le Grand Gourou (talk) 06:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics

message: I am unsure of what this date beside harry's name is supposed to signify; if it is in reference to his birth and death, the 
page his name links to gives a conflicting date. (Harry Clifton (born 1952))  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.27.218.197 (talk) 03:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, this is not the same person.  I removed the link, but someone may want to create a disambiguation page.  Skippy le Grand Gourou (talk) 10:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Clifton (1824-1872)? 

message: D.K. Gavan "The Galway Poet" is mentioned on many websites, but no one seems to have a source to his full name, historical background. Did he even realy exist?
The two references provided are non-searchable (The Era magazine, 22 February 1863 and Attribution on sheet music). Can anyone veryify these, and maybe create a separate page on The Galway Poet?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.58.253.57 (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is D.K. Gavan? 

message: I've gone ahead and cleaned up this article a bit. In particularly, I've removed the lyrics per WP:NOTLYRICS. Note that the guideline says, "For songs in the public domain the article should not consist solely of the lyrics (Wikisource should be used for such articles instead), but should instead provide information about authorship, date of publication, social impact, and so on. Quotes from an out-of-copyright song should be kept to a reasonable length relative to the rest of the article, and used to facilitate discussion, or to illustrate the style; the full text can be put on Wikisource and linked to from the article." We have that exactly here. The lyrics are on Wikisource, and a link is given at the bottom. Having all of the lyrics in the main body is excessive, so it's been removed.
I've also done some link cleanup, and removed non-notable versions of the song. Honestly I don't like the Recordings section at all, but I can live with it for now. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup and more 

message: it should be noted that its not possible to walk from Tuam to Mullingar in just one day.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.69.241.2 (talk) 15:28, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMPOSSIBLE 

message: There is an Irish drinking song called "An Bairille" which shares it's melody with Rocky Road to Dublin. JayBirdtyper (talk) 18:13, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  An bairille