{"id":25203,"date":"2024-02-12T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:47:28","slug":"on-raglan-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/on-raglan-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On Raglan Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ydp4bddd55bdaia-post-content\">\n<p>By Patrick Kavanagh<\/p>\n<p>On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first and knew<br \/>\nThat her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;<br \/>\nI saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way,<br \/>\nAnd I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.<br \/>\nOn Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge<br \/>\nOf the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion\u2019s pledge,<br \/>\nThe Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay<br \/>\nOh I loved too much and by such by such is happiness thrown away.<br \/>\nI gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that\u2019s known<br \/>\nTo the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone<br \/>\nAnd word and tint without stint for I gave her poems to say.<br \/>\nWith her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May<br \/>\nOn a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now<br \/>\nAway from me so hurriedly my reason must allow<br \/>\nThat I had loved not as I should a creature made of clay<br \/>\nWhen the angel woos the clay he\u2019d lose his wings at the dawn of day.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to original Luke Kelly of the Dubliners version: RT\u00c9 Archives | Arts and Culture | Luke Kelly Sings \u2018On Raglan Road\u2019 (rte.ie)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdHr6jdQyTM\" width=\"789\" height=\"468\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Van Morrison and the Chieftains : (122) VAN MORRISON-THE CHIEFTAINS \u2013 Raglan Road \u2013 bbc tv \u2013 YouTube<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLCYH36ahpE\" width=\"789\" height=\"468\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Send Deb your favorite travel poems<\/p>\n<p>Learn the history of On Raglan Road and see the beautiful woman who inspired it.<\/p>\n<h3>History Behind the Poem<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25160 bdaia-img-show\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PatKAVANAGH.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PatKAVANAGH.png 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PatKAVANAGH-283x300.png 283w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Raglan Road was first published as a poem in The Irish Press on 3 October 1946 under the title \u201cDark Haired Miriam Ran Away.\u201d Peter Kavanagh, Patrick\u2019s brother, said that \u201cit was written about Patrick\u2019s girlfriend Hilda but to avoid embarrassment he used the name of my girlfriend in the title\u201d. Her real name was Dr Hilda Moriarty, then a medical student from County Kerry. Though she regarded Kavanagh as a friend, her feelings were not romantic and in 1947 she married Donogh O\u2019Malley, who later became Fianna F\u00e1il Minister for Education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25161 bdaia-img-show\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hilda-Moriarty.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hilda-Moriarty.png 368w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Hilda-Moriarty-208x300.png 208w\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"530\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Hilda Moriarty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1987, Hilda Moriarty was interviewed by the Irish broadcaster RT\u00c9 for a documentary about Kavanagh called Gentle Tiger. In the interview, she said one of the main reasons for the failure of their relationship was that there was a wide age gap between them. She was only 22, whereas he was 40.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Moriarty also described how Raglan Road came to be written. Kavanagh had lived in Pembroke Road in Dublin, but he moved out as he could not afford the rent and he moved into Mrs Kenny\u2019s boarding house on Raglan Road which cost 10 shillings a week full board \u2013 Hilda was staying on Raglan Road \u2013 a road off Pembroke Road. Kavanagh saw Hilda coming and going from Raglan Road to University on a daily basis and as an excuse to meet with her in the Country Shop on St Stephen\u2019s Green or Mitchell\u2019s on Dawson Street he would often ask Hilda to critique his work. Kavanagh described himself as a peasant poet but Hilda was not that impressed and teased him-\u201cCan you not, then, write about anything other than stony grey soil and bogs, Paddy?\u201d Kavanagh said, \u201cI will immortalise you in poetry, Hilda.\u201d And so he did. According to Dr Moriarty, he went away and wrote Raglan Road-and Hilda featured in many of Kavanagh\u2019s poems, including Hilda, Hilda 2, and Hilda 3, and several others.<\/p>\n<p>The poem was put to music when the poet met Luke Kelly of the well-known Irish band The Dubliners in a pub in Dublin called The Bailey. It was set to the music of the traditional song \u201cThe Dawning of the Day\u201d (F\u00e1inne Geal an Lae). An Irish-language song with this name (F\u00e1inne Geal an Lae) was published by Edward Walsh (1805-1850) in 1847 in Irish Popular Songs, and later translated into English as The Dawning of the Day, published by Patrick Weston Joyce in 1873. Given the similarity in themes and the use of the phrase \u201cdawning of the day\u201d in both On Raglan Road and the traditional tune, it is quite likely that Kavanagh from the beginning imagined the pairing of verse and tune. Indeed, there is a broadcast recording of Kavanagh singing On Raglan Road to the tune on Irish television and in 1974 Benedict Kiely recalled in an interview for RT\u00c9 Kavanagh trying out the paired verse and tune for him soon after its writing. Kelly himself acknowledges that song was gifted to him that evening at The Bailey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Kavanagh On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue; I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way, And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[5172,5174,5170,5178,5175,5176],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-fun-stuff","tag-hilda-moriarty","tag-luke-kelly","tag-patrick-kavanagh","tag-the-chieftains","tag-the-dubliners","tag-van-morrison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On Raglan Road - 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