Oh, I think Rocky Road to Dublin was a very deliberate choice. It's a song specifically about the Irish emigrant experience of leaving home to look for work and finding discrimination everywhere you go:
Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin' Enquiring for the rogue, said me Connaught brogue Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
[. . .]
The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it Blood began to boil, temper I was losing Poor old Erin's isle they began abusing
- which fits perfectly with Remmick's story being one of leaving his ancestral home behind and losing the ties he had to his culture. And Wild Mountain Thyme is also about leaving home - "I will roam the country o'er / Through that dark land so dreary / And all the spoils I find / I'll bring to my darling dearie." Literally bringing "spoils" back from your travels. It all ties in.
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Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind
No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
Enquiring for the rogue, said me Connaught brogue
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
[. . .]
The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed
Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it
Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
Poor old Erin's isle they began abusing
- which fits perfectly with Remmick's story being one of leaving his ancestral home behind and losing the ties he had to his culture. And Wild Mountain Thyme is also about leaving home - "I will roam the country o'er / Through that dark land so dreary / And all the spoils I find / I'll bring to my darling dearie." Literally bringing "spoils" back from your travels. It all ties in.