Music
To many foreign music fans, Arklow is most known as the title setting for Van Morrison's 1974 song "Streets of Arklow", one of eight songs he wrote on a three week vacation back to Ireland, and featured on his album Veedon Fleece. The "Battle of Arklow" is a well-known hornpipe and non-traditional set dance tune, and is often played at feiseanna and other Irish dance competitions. Arklow is also the home town of pop group Moloko's lead singer Róisín Murphy.
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“Through music the passions enjoy themselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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Of things were waiting in a betrothal known
To none, awaiting espousal to the sound
Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning
And breeding and bearing birth of harmony,
The final relation, the marriage of the rest.”
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