{"id":531,"date":"2025-08-20T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/?p=531"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:04:15","slug":"celebrating-through-music-dublin-on-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/2025\/08\/20\/celebrating-through-music-dublin-on-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Through Music: Dublin On Your Own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since I was a little girl, I had always been ingrained in Irish culture. When I was younger, my dad owned an Irish bar called Finnegan\u2019s Wake, and it was my home away from home since I could remember. I share so many fond memories in that place with my family. From watching live Irish music performances on St. Patrick\u2019s Day or playing tag with my brother throughout the place, I loved every second of being there. It also gave me a chance to connect with my Irish heritage. The bar closed when I was fourteen, and when it shut down, it left a pit in my ability to celebrate my culture with my family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then my sister showed me the movie Sing Street. <\/em>The film followed an Irish boy named Conor, living in Dublin during the 1980s recession in Ireland. He was forced to move to an all-boys Christian brothers school because of his family\u2019s financial status. I, too, was about to go to an all-girls Catholic school, so I found myself relating to Conor in his struggles of moving schools. Out of his pain, he developed a profound love for music from his brother, and he decided to start a band. From my first watch, I loved this movie and all the songs that it included. I had never watched a movie that felt so down-to-earth and true to its message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This trip gave me the same sense of nerves as I did when changing schools. I had never traveled before without my family being with me, so I felt distant, but I also had never felt more connected to them 3,000 miles away. I walked around the city, and found myself increasingly thinking about Sing Street<\/em> and how the soundtrack made me feel the first time I listened to it. Music is more important than anything else in the world to me. So, I decided to walk to where they filmed the movie at Synge Street\u2019s Christian Brothers School.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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As I walked along the streets of Dublin, I heard live music blasting out of almost every pub. I called my dad and told him all about it. Once I made it to Synge Street, it felt empty. How had a set of a movie that altered my life been just another building on a street? Why wasn’t there a plaque to acknowledge that it was filmed here? But I remembered that the beauty of art is how you relate to it. To Dubliners, this is just another school, but to me, it was where I grew in my love for Ireland. As I walked back to the hostel, I put in my headphones and listened to my favorite song from the movie, \u201cDrive It Like You Stole It.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I was a little girl, I had always been ingrained in Irish culture. When I was younger, my dad owned an Irish bar called Finnegan\u2019s Wake, and it was my home away from home since I could remember. I share so many fond memories in that place with my family. From watching live Irish … Continue reading Celebrating Through Music: Dublin On Your Own<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin-on-your-own"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}