page_title: Down Went McGinty
section_title: Popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Down Went McGinty / Popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: the upper caption, "DOWN WENT ____", and the lower caption, M'GINTY RECEIVES A FEW RUSSIAN VISITORS", allude to the 1889 song "Down Went McGinty" by Joseph Flynn; here, the Russian sailors are "going down to the bottom of the sea" because their ships have been sunk as a result of battles in the Russo-Japanese War.
context_page_description: "Down Went McGinty" is an 1889 song written by Joseph Flynn. It was first performed by Flynn and his partner Frank Sheridan, at Hyde and Behman's Theater in Brooklyn. The lyrics depict the misadventures of a stereotypically "naive and pugnacious" Irishman named Dan McGinty; the last verse describes his suicide by drowning: "Down went McGinty / to the bottom of the sea".
  Film historian Jeff Jaeckle has described McGinty's actions as "conform to contemporaneous anti-Irish prejudice".
context_section_description: References to McGinty were common for decades after the song's introduction, with the song being used as the basis for characters by, among others, Preston Sturges (in The Great McGinty), L. Frank Baum, and James T. Farrell.
caption: 1904 editorial cartoon comparing casualties of war to McGinty.
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