As the sole group established outside of the country, The Dropkick Murphys have the most to say about the essence of Irish identity outside of the island itself. Outside of their covers of traditional songs, the members of the group evoke tropes of Irish folk songs in memorializing friends, creating tall tales, and tying songs to specific places, usually within Boston.
The song Noble, for one, evokes the sort of memorializing of a specific individual often found in Irish music. In telling the story of a friends’ passing in Ashmont, The Dropkicks create a song evoking the content of, say, Donegal Danny.
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Much in a similar treatment to the Irish language, The Wolfe Tones created an individual album for the express purpose of examining Irish narratives involving the diaspora. In Across The Broad Atlantic the group narrates the stories of Irish people immigrating to places across America, and stories of people living within the country. Though the songs don’t all make mention of being on Irish soil their inclusion implies an Irish identity within the diaspora, a mantle taken up by bands much like the Dropkick Murphys.