History Music / DropkickMurphys

+ Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/TheClash, Music/TheRamones, Music/SexPistols, Music/ThePogues]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Spicy [=McHaggis=]

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band plays Irish-influenced Celtic punk, and they had some Oi! in the earlier days.

Considered to be the semi-official band of baseball's Boston Red Sox, the band's 2004 song "Tessie" (which is ''not'' a cover of the turn-of-the-century Red Sox fight song of the same name as often claimed, but a newly written song about those same turn-of-the-century fans, with the original fight song making up most of the chorus) is often played on Boston radio before Red Sox games as "good luck", especially during the team's 2004 season in which they won their first World Series in 86 years. In 2007 "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" became yet another unofficial anthem for the Red Sox in the run up to their next World Series victory. The band has performed during the team's "Rolling Rally" parade through Boston twice (in 2007 and 2013) and many current Red Sox players consider [[BigNameFan themselves fans of the band]].

* JohnBarleycornAndFriends: "Dirty Glass" personifies the neighborhood pub as a quarrelsome girlfriend.

->Some may be from showing up\\

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Loyal To No One

* StoryboardBody: The subject of "Rose Tattoo" is heavily tattooed and makes it clear that each of his tattoos has a story and a significance, even if he may have been too drunk to remember all of the reasons. The one he's most proud of, though, is the eponymous rose tattoo with the name of of loved one on it.

The Dropkick Murphys are a well known Celtic Punk band from Quincy, Massachusetts, named after a rehab center near where the first members grew up. They have released eight studio albums since their founding, gaining a fair amount of popularity for their song "I'm Shipping Up To Boston", which was featured in the 2006 film ''Film/TheDeparted'' - as well as ''many'' other sources. This is interesting, as the lyrics were originally by Music/WoodyGuthrie, he just never finished it before he died (it wasn't the first time the band had covered an unrecorded Guthrie song, either. They covered his "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album ''Blackout'')

* BerserkButton: Quote: "Nazis ARE NOT FUCKING WELCOME at a Dropkick Murphys show!" as [[http://gawker.com/5991403/dropkick-murphys-singer-kicks-the-crap-out-of-skinhead-doing-nazi-salute-on-stage-during-st-patricks-day-concert?popular=true one man found out]] over St Patrick's week 2013 when he ended up getting a Bass guitar to the head for doing a Nazi salute while on stage and promptly got beaten up by the band and several members of the crowd before getting thrown out.

--> [[https://twitter.com/dropkickmurphys/status/559170864420507648?lang=en
''Please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you!!!]]''

** Also when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who they've openly criticized before (see "Take 'Em Down") used one of their songs at a rally they were [[http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/punk-band-tells-gov-walker-we-literally-hate-you/30923886 not happy]] and minced no words expressing so.

* TheIrishDiaspora: Very, ''very'' Irish and yet peppered with references anyone from Ireland (or anywhere else outside Red Sox Nation) probably wouldn't get.