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darkrosaleenMaggie Stiefvater recently posted this to tumblr, with the tags "the brothers lynch" and "raven boys iv":
http://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/108291098071/a-stor-mo-chroi-by-alasdair-frasers-skyedance-on
Since this is an instrumental version, I would like to call your attention to the lyrics of "A Stor Mo Chroi," taken from here.
A Stór Mo Chroí,* when you're far away
Far from the land you'll be leaving,
It's many a time by night and by day
That your heart will be sorely grieving.
For the stranger's land may be bright and fair,
And rich in its treasures golden.
But you'll pine, I know, for the long, long ago
And the love that is never olden.
A Stór Mo Chroí, in the stranger's land
There is plenty of wealth and wailing.
Whilst gems adorn the great and the grand
There are faces with hunger paling.
Though the road is toilsome, and hard to tread
And the lights of their cities will blind you.
Won't you turn a stór to Erin's shore
And the ones that you're leaving behind you.
A Stór Mo Chroí, when the evening's mist
Over mountain and sea is falling,
won't you turn away from the throng
And maybe you'll hear me calling.
For the sound of a voice that is surely missed
For somebody's quick returning.
A ruin,** a ruin, oh won't you come back soon
To the ones who will always love you.
*darling of my heart
**my dear
In all my future AUs, Ronan remains at the Barns while the others go to college and travel the world. I think Blue Lily, Lily Blue set him up as the nurturing type (let me cry about Matthew some more), and we already know he's the most spiritual brother, the most idealistic brother, the brother most tied to family and identity and home. I don't know if Maggie intended the song to be interpreted in the context of the lyrics, but now I need Ronan begging Declan to come back home and be a family again.
You could also notice that this is a love song to an emigrant, and it could easily be directed at Niall Lynch, who left his home country to be rich and dashing in America, but still made his kids take Irish music lessons and gave them Irish names and surrounded them in the culture he left behind. If Ronan grew up with his father's yearning for his lost home country, that could have built up Ronan's sense of home and the importance of keeping your family together.
http://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/108291098071/a-stor-mo-chroi-by-alasdair-frasers-skyedance-on
Since this is an instrumental version, I would like to call your attention to the lyrics of "A Stor Mo Chroi," taken from here.
A Stór Mo Chroí,* when you're far away
Far from the land you'll be leaving,
It's many a time by night and by day
That your heart will be sorely grieving.
For the stranger's land may be bright and fair,
And rich in its treasures golden.
But you'll pine, I know, for the long, long ago
And the love that is never olden.
A Stór Mo Chroí, in the stranger's land
There is plenty of wealth and wailing.
Whilst gems adorn the great and the grand
There are faces with hunger paling.
Though the road is toilsome, and hard to tread
And the lights of their cities will blind you.
Won't you turn a stór to Erin's shore
And the ones that you're leaving behind you.
A Stór Mo Chroí, when the evening's mist
Over mountain and sea is falling,
won't you turn away from the throng
And maybe you'll hear me calling.
For the sound of a voice that is surely missed
For somebody's quick returning.
A ruin,** a ruin, oh won't you come back soon
To the ones who will always love you.
*darling of my heart
**my dear
In all my future AUs, Ronan remains at the Barns while the others go to college and travel the world. I think Blue Lily, Lily Blue set him up as the nurturing type (let me cry about Matthew some more), and we already know he's the most spiritual brother, the most idealistic brother, the brother most tied to family and identity and home. I don't know if Maggie intended the song to be interpreted in the context of the lyrics, but now I need Ronan begging Declan to come back home and be a family again.
You could also notice that this is a love song to an emigrant, and it could easily be directed at Niall Lynch, who left his home country to be rich and dashing in America, but still made his kids take Irish music lessons and gave them Irish names and surrounded them in the culture he left behind. If Ronan grew up with his father's yearning for his lost home country, that could have built up Ronan's sense of home and the importance of keeping your family together.
