Can you all rise....

Oswald Osbourne

for the national Anthem of the Republic of Ireland

Sinne Fianna Fáil
A tá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buion dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn,
Fé mhóid bheith saor.
Sean tír ár sinsir feasta
Ní fhagfar fé'n tiorán ná fé'n tráil
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
Le guna screach fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.

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So what's your favourite National Anthem?

Time Magazine

Gstq

Ruu_Old

I like this Irish national anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TeUbYvXS0

MagicMarker

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

for the national Anthem of the Republic of Ireland

Sinne Fianna Fáil
A tá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buion dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn,
Fé mhóid bheith saor.
Sean tír ár sinsir feasta
Ní fhagfar fé'n tiorán ná fé'n tráil
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
Le guna screach fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.

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So what's your favourite National Anthem?

God save our queen.

Rb

I like the french one. If it's the one I'm thinking of anyway.

johnnyskeleton

Oh Canada...

monkeyfudge

Yep.. the French one... if only for the scene in Casablanca.

Santa Claus

Advance australia fair is kinda catchy. The italian anthem is quite cheery too!

MagicMarker

Actually, pre fight anthem in Rocky IV ftw.

Zaph

Billy Connolly on national anthems

constitutionus

zaph wrote: »

Billy Connolly on national anthems

the very thing i was thinking when i found this thread

biko

Du gamla, du fria.

User45701

Yay, its allot better than that irelands call bollox i have to listen to sometimes. ****ing ruger bugger kunts. Sing the real anthom not some made up ****e for political reasons (i think someone told me its not the real anthom because some players are from the north?)if they want to play on our team then they should sing our anthom and if they have a problem with then **** off back to the north.

Wacker

User45701 wrote: »

Yay, its allot better than that irelands call bollox i have to listen to sometimes.

Do we really need to have this debate again? Can't we just talk about other national anthems? I mean, no one even argues that Ireland's Call is a national anthem. So let's just move on?

Anyway, the old Russian Communist anthem was awesome. Remember Drago's entrance before fighting Rocky in Rocky IV? I swear, that anthem was so slick that I quickly changed into something red.

chopperbyrne

It's the Ireland rugby team, not the Republic of Ireland rugby team. By your reasoning, we should sing God Save Our Queen at Irish rugby matches too.

Terry

User45701 wrote: »

Yay, its allot better than that irelands call bollox i have to listen to sometimes. ****ing ruger bugger kunts. Sing the real anthom not some made up ****e for political reasons (i think someone told me its not the real anthom because some players are from the north?)if they want to play on our team then they should sing our anthom and if they have a problem with then **** off back to the north.

Infraction given.

The question was "So what's your favourite National Anthem?".
Please stay on topic.

Chunks

User45701 wrote: »

Yay, its allot better than that irelands call bollox i have to listen to sometimes. ****ing ruger bugger kunts. Sing the real anthom not some made up ****e for political reasons (i think someone told me its not the real anthom because some players are from the north?)if they want to play on our team then they should sing our anthom and if they have a problem with then **** off back to the north.

Uneducated fool. It's the rugby anthem not the nations anthem.

Someone's got issues with 'rugger bugger kunts' . secretly fancy some of them do we?

On topic/ the Italian one is good fun to listen to. Typically Italian... unnecessarily over the top. The Argentinian one too

Pompey Magnus

MagicMarker wrote: »

Actually, pre fight anthem in Rocky IV ftw.

Agreed, go Soviet Union.

User45701

i was under the impression that when a team named after a country like Irealnd
Italy France ect engaged a international match they sing the nations national anthom. How many contries dont sing there national anthom at international matches? i dont know.

Chunks

I can't think of any off the top of my head because I can't think of any other countries in the world that have the same problem as us and play rugby. Can you think of any rugby playing nations that are split in two by another nation?

I think Wales is a principality not a nation so technically they don't have a national anthem other than 'God Save our Queen'....although I may be wrong.

Wacker

User45701 wrote: »

i was under the impression that when a team named after a country like Irealnd
Italy France ect engaged a international match they sing the nations national anthom. How many contries dont sing there national anthom at international matches? i dont know.

Oh dear. Some people just won't be told, eh?

Anyway, the French and English anthems are both pretty slick. Did you guys know that the Star Spangled Banner doesn't feature the word 'America'; even once?

Terry

Chunks wrote: »

Uneducated fool. It's the rugby anthem not the nations anthem.

Someone's got issues with 'rugger bugger kunts' . secretly fancy some of them do we?

On topic/ the Italian one is good fun to listen to. Typically Italian... unnecessarily over the top. The Argentinian one too

Banned.

Unshelved

How many contries dont sing there national anthom at international matches? i dont know.

The Spanish! Their national anthem has no words. Which, come to think of it could solve all the Ireland's Call hassle. We should just hum all national anthems.

I think I feel a letter to the Irish Times coming on.

(And it's countries not "contries", don't not "dont", their not "their", anthem not "anthom", and a capital letter after a full stop.)

Sleepy

Have to say I've always thought Flower of Scotland was pretty cool

delta_bravo

Orchestral versions of the English National Anthem are sublime. Have an excellent one on my mp3 player. The East German Anthem was also decent in its day

watna

Chunks wrote: »

I can't think of any off the top of my head because I can't think of any other countries in the world that have the same problem as us and play rugby. Can you think of any rugby playing nations that are split in two by another nation?

I think Wales is a principality not a nation so technically they don't have a national anthem other than 'God Save our Queen'....although I may be wrong.

Ooh, Welsh people would not be happy with you saying that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_Wlad_Fy_Nhadau

It's a pretty cool national anthem too. People really get in to it and sing with passion!

Zaph

delta_bravo wrote: »

Orchestral versions of the English National Anthem are sublime.

Weirdly enough, Liechenstein's national anthem uses the same music as God Save the Queen.

Pompey Magnus

delta_bravo wrote: »

Orchestral versions of the English National Anthem are sublime. Have an excellent one on my mp3 player.

I really think "Jerusalem" would be a far better national anthem for England. "God Save the Queen" is British, not English, anyways.

delta_bravo

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

"God Save the Queen" is British, not English, anyways.

Its also an anthem of New Zealand if you are going to be pedantic.

BurnsCarpenter

La Marseillaise - Rousing stuff.

I like the French one, dodododo dodododo do dood

Pherekydes

Wacker wrote: »

Did you guys know that the Star Spangled Banner doesn't feature the word 'America'; even once?

Yeah, it's about the flag.

The Finnish and Estonian anthems use the same music, too.

French one is best, IMO.

doubledown

The Italian one is the best!

Reminds me of all those Schumi F1 victories with Ferrari over the years.

Mr. Incognito

They're all pretty crap to be honest.

I think we should adopt Eye of the Tiger.

Think about it.................

User45701

well i know im not the only one who feels like this because i remember about a year and a bit ago myself and some mates where boozing on saturday morning for the match (still drinking from friday) Anyway when irelands call came on i didnt notice what it was so i started with Sinne Fianna Fáil then realised that was not was being sung so i started asking questions (i forgot to add i had a badley burnt hand wrapped in a towel full of ice that the barman gave me because i got in a fight with a geroge forman the night before trying to cook bacon at about 5am)

Anyway long story short i only noticed just over 2 years ago that the rugby team didnt sing the national anthom and when we where talking about it allot of people in the pub agreed. I dont know why i have a problem with irelands call, i dont see why we have different football teams but the same rugby team, one would assume it would be the other way around, more irish people would play rugby than football, im sure most people play it at one time or another but if im right more people would play more rugby. i know the english football leage is popular but im not talking about being fans of forign clubs, i just think there are good rugby players in the rep of ireland and i dont know about the north but i think im right if i where to state that both football teams are either bad or badley managed. So maybe a combined football team might make more sence so we might have some chance but combined rugby? where we not ranked 4th best rugby team in the world? sure before the cup the ods where quite bad meaning bookies thought we had a good chance of winning. Ok let me put it another way. If a irish team wins a international event it had better of been Sinne Fianna Fáil before the game, winning to irelands call would be... well i dont even know what word to use.

ejmaztec

The French are red-hot with their anthem.

The British one is very mundane, but I think that it is very useful for emptying cinemas, same affect as a fire alarm. There was never a soul left inside one by the time it got to the third verse.

_blank_

My favourite anthem is Darth Vader's. Quality tune.

As for National Anthems, I always liked the national anthem of Finland/Estonia.

And the Soviet one was great.

And the German.

Deutchland Deutchland Uber Alles indeed.

Stephen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLcc19mt4eA

Powerful stuff!

RIRI

Unshelved wrote: »

The Spanish! Their national anthem has no words. Which, come to think of it could solve all the Ireland's Call hassle. We should just hum all national anthems.

I think I feel a letter to the Irish Times coming on.

(And it's countries not "contries", don't not "dont", their not "their", anthem not "anthom", and a capital letter after a full stop.)

Sorry Unshelved but...... The Spanish national anthem does in fact have words - they;re pretty fascist though which is why they're not sung. The first line roughly translated goes "Long live spain, raise your arms children of the spanish nation"

A great tune none the less. My personal favourite, like many others, is the Italian one

Mini_Moose

biko wrote: »

Du gamla, du fria.

Funny thing about it is that has never been made official!

YeatsCounty

My favourites:
La Marseillaise
O Canada, although the French version is better than the English version IMO.
Soviet anthem
Italy's anthem
The Star Spangled banner when it's sung properly (i.e. not by American Idol rejects who spend 10 minutes elongating each syllable).


Gotta give respect to the anthem of the Armenian S.S.R though. Cracking tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcmOgENNQ0w

ScumLord

Irish anthem hands down, gives me goose bumps every time it gets to the end, I get all fired up and want to throw a stool in over the bar and start a fight.

Sinne Fianna Fáil
A tá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buoo dár sluuuuaaa
Thar Naaah do nuuna naaa,
Laa dee doo daa daa.
Shnaa do de do doo
laaa fe do de dooo
mmmm mmmmm daaaaahh

O Canada is also a classic, purely for comical value..

Creature

We should adopt Radiohead's National Anthem. That's a good song.

Unshelved

Sorry Unshelved but...... The Spanish national anthem does in fact have words - they;re pretty fascist though which is why they're not sung. The first line roughly translated goes "Long live spain, raise your arms children of the spanish nation"

They introduced words under Franco and dropped them when he croaked - the lyrics aren't officially recognised any longer. In fact, Spain passed a law in 1997 stating, among other things, that it should be played the key of b minor, it is to last 52 seconds in the presence of the king and slightly shorter every other time, and that it is to have no words.

Link here - www.theworld.org/?q=node/9692

RIRI

exactly, the song does have words but they are not to be sung - isn't that what I said?

Odd how nobody has mentioned this yet.. and when else can you use a Borat quote on here?

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Da Bomber

Flower Of Scotland is savage made the hairs stand on the back of my head when it was sung before that scotland italy soccer match...

Mossy Monk

The Soviet Union had the best anthem ever played.

Zaph

The South African anthem, Nkosi Sikelel i'Afrika is one of the best, IMO. When it's sung by thousands the hairs really stand up on the back of your neck. Here's a long, and very cool, version of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGZiMcDvYY

Latchy

Amhran Na bfhiann. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wygzJtJwPnk

I love this version from 80s . Has to be one of the most beautiful peices of instrumental music ever written ,lovley orchestral score and still has the power to make hairs on back of my neck stand up .