Grafton Street - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• In the song "Before the Worst" performed by The Script, Grafton Street is mentioned in the lyrics; "It was Grafton Street on a rainy night, I was down on one knee and you were mine for life".
• American singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith wrote and recorded a song called "On Grafton Street".
• Bagatelle, an Irish rock band in the 1970s refer to Grafton Street in their song "Summer in Dublin"; "And young people walking down Grafton Street, everyone looking so well".
• Noel Purcell made the song "Dublin Saunter" well known; it includes the line "Grafton Street's a wonderland, there's magic in the air".
• There is a line in the poem "On Raglan Road" by poet Patrick Kavanagh: "On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge"'
• Dido features a track entitled "Grafton Street" on her latest album Safe Trip Home. This song is a tribute to Dido's deceased father, who was Irish.
• Grafton Street is mentioned several times in James Joyce's Dubliners.