Questions on national anthems

Santan

just wondering the Irish national anthem is in Irish, but our spoken language is by and large English, is there any other country that has their national anthem in their mother language, but not their spoken day to day language. Asked a few down in the pub but none of us can think of any, maybe apart from New Zealand that has the haka, but dont think that counts as national anthem

The Purveyor of Truth

Wales.

Downtime

The New Zealand anthem is in Maori and English. The Welsh anthem is in Welsh but they largely speak English. The South African anthem is in 5 languages.

The Backwards Man

Amhran na bhFiann is an English song.

Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland
Some have come from a land beyond the wave,
Sworn to be free,
no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave;
tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal
In Erin's cause.
come woe or weal;
'Mid cannon's roar and rifle's peal
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Lapin

The Irish National Anthem was originally written in English and only translated years later.

Santan

dont know how none of us knew that

ardle1

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Amhran na bhFiann is an English song.

Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland
Some have come from a land beyond the wave,
Sworn to be free,
no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave;
tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal
In Erin's cause.
come woe or weal;
'Mid cannon's roar and rifle's peal
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Who gives a fcuk, my VW is German! But it's still mine....
I love my National Anthem!
What is the OP getting at here, HUH
Hope your not one of these people laughing at your own Country?!

Santan

it was one of those questions in the pub after a few beers that we could not come up with answers with so leave your attitude out

ardle1

Santan wrote: »

it was one of those questions in the pub after a few beers that we could not come up with answers with so leave your attitude out

No attitude, that's cool....
You good man me good man= Two good Irish men

endacl

ardle1 wrote: »

Who gives a fcuk, my VW is German! But it's still mine....
I love my National Anthem!
What is the OP getting at here, HUH
Hope your not one of these people laughing at your own Country?!

Sure, if ye couldn't laugh, ye'd cry.

Chill.

FloatingVoter

I'm pretty sure the Klingon Empire anthem was not written by a genuine Klingon.

Lapin

Try learning the words of the Spanish National Anthem OP.

Absolute bitch of a song to sing.

Especially after a few pints.

The Backwards Man

Lapin wrote: »

Try learning the words of the Spanish National Anthem OP.

Absolute bitch of a song to sing.

Especially after a few pints.

Pffft

I can sing it with my mouth shut

donegal_man

The National Anthem of Singapore is sung in Malay even though only something like only 25% of the population speak it as their first language. The rest using English or Chinese

The Peanut

http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2011/12/27/singing-the-national-anthem-in-their-own-language/

Interesting I think.

Edit: Perhaps not.

ruthloss

Lapin wrote: »

The Irish National Anthem was originally written in English and only translated years later.

Written by Peadar Carney, uncle of Brendan Behan.

It was written as a march., nowadays it seems to be played in waltz time by most except the Military., mores the pity imo.

Lapin

ruthloss wrote: »

Written by Peadar Carney, uncle of Brendan Behan.

It was written as a march., nowadays it seems to be played in waltz time by most except the Military., mores the pity imo.

I often feel sorry for poor ould Peadar.

When we learnt about him way back in National School, we thought for a while that his actual full name was Peadar Carney Uncle Of Brendan Behan.

Our teacher never batted an eyelid when we referred to him as such.