Monto (Take Her Up to Monto)

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"Monto (Take Her Up To Monto)" is an Irish folk song, written in 1958 by George Desmond Hodnett, music critic of the Irish Times , and popularised by the Dubliners. [1] Frank Harte was also known to sing the song. [2] It refers to Monto, the historic red light district in the northeast of Dublin.

Irish singer Róisín Murphy named her 2016 album Take Her Up to Monto in reference to the song. [3]

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References

  1. The Story of Monto by John Finegan. The Mercier Press, Dublin, 1978.
  2. "An Irishman's Diary". The Irish Times .
  3. Petridis, Alexis (7 July 2016). "Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 May 2017.