How much of the Irish National Anthem Do You know?

cloneslad · 02-12-2009 05:42PM

Ireland's call is my national anthem, asked my g.f.if we could have it as our first dance when we get married (started outrageously high to try get he to bargain with me) she's now letting us have it played when we walk out of the church at the end of the ceremony.....sweet!!

Oh and I don't bother singing the other one, I just wait for Ireland's call!! I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

OutlawPete · 02-12-2009 05:45PM

cloneslad wrote: »

I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

Even in The Hideout???

OutlawPete spent his youth in Clones.

Xavi6 · 02-12-2009 05:46PM

cloneslad wrote: »

Ireland's call is my national anthem, asked my g.f.if we could have it as our first dance when we get married (started outrageously high to try get he to bargain with me) she's now letting us have it played when we walk out of the church at the end of the ceremony.....sweet!!

Oh dear lord, that sounds horrific.

sdanseo · 02-12-2009 05:49PM

All of it, plus can play it on the piano (badly) including the presidential salute - so there! :P

cloneslad wrote: »

Ireland's call is my national anthem, asked my g.f.if we could have it as our first dance when we get married (started outrageously high to try get he to bargain with me) she's now letting us have it played when we walk out of the church at the end of the ceremony.....sweet!!

Oh and I don't bother singing the other one, I just wait for Ireland's call!! I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

You're either a troll, or something went wrong with the hamster in your head that works the controls. Either way, leave.

Sofiztikated · 02-12-2009 07:16PM

I know it all.

Shinny Fee Naa Faol, Ne na na na na ne na, dum de dumde dum.

See, i'm patriotic, me.

lee_ · 02-12-2009 07:34PM

Sofiztikated you'll be running for president next If you keep up this sort of thing

WeeBushy · 02-12-2009 07:37PM

All of it. I'd hate not knowing my national anthem.

WeeBushy · 02-12-2009 07:39PM

cloneslad wrote: »

Oh and I don't bother singing the other one, I just wait for Ireland's call!! I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

Yeah, I find that so cringeworthy... its awful. I try and run out of the place as fast as I can. It should only be sung at sporting occasions and the likes.

Blisterman · 02-12-2009 11:59PM

At the moment only 61/124 know the first verse, so less than half.

The reason I asked the question is because I realised the other day that I know more of the English national anthem than the Irish one, which is pretty shameful, but at least I understand the English one. The bit of the Irish national anthem I know, I only know phonetically.

Dudess · 03-12-2009 12:00AM

All of it - drilled into us at school. Haven't a notion what most of it means though.

gubbie · 03-12-2009 12:20AM

I know the verse that starts "Seo dhaoibh a chairde..." from Irish collage. And then I launch into the whole of it after.

I love standing up there at a rugby match and singing my heart out!

Rodgeb · 03-12-2009 12:24AM

All of it

Micilin Muc · 03-12-2009 12:26AM

All of it, as Gaeilge.

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 12:27AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Even in The Hideout???

OutlawPete spent his youth in Clones.

it's been closed down now for over 5 or 6 years. My dad was a bit of a regular back in the day of dick crudden running the place

It became "an bonnan Bui" and if it was played in there I would have done whatever I was told for fear of an ass kickin

Blisterman · 03-12-2009 12:28AM

Actually thinking about it, I don't really understand the English one at all. "God save our queen", from what? "Send her victorious, happy and glorious" WTF?

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 12:32AM

cloneslad wrote: »

Ireland's call is my national anthem, asked my g.f.if we could have it as our first dance when we get married (started outrageously high to try get he to bargain with me) she's now letting us have it played when we walk out of the church at the end of the ceremony.....sweet!!

Oh and I don't bother singing the other one, I just wait for Ireland's call!! I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

sdonn wrote: »

You're either a troll, or something went wrong with the hamster in your head that works the controls. Either way, leave.

How is that comment trollish? I don't know the words to Amhrán na bhFiann, never have done (largy college didn't teach irish very well) I was simply giving my 2 cents on the topic. I didn't expect any comments towards my initial comment ( well except the irelands call at the wedding part, which I know is odd as hell but damn it, phil coulter has the voice of an angel, he's been called the songbird of his generation :P)

I am also not about to start an argument with someone on the internet because I am not a teenager nor do I lack friends in the real world.

tolosenc · 03-12-2009 12:34AM

Know the original, the real translation and the De Valera translation. Also, anything not between Sínne... and Amhrán na bhFiann is not technically the national anthem, so knowing the other verses doesn't mean you know more of the anthem.

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 12:37AM

cloneslad wrote: »

Ireland's call is my national anthem, asked my g.f.if we could have it as our first dance when we get married (started outrageously high to try get he to bargain with me) she's now letting us have it played when we walk out of the church at the end of the ceremony.....sweet!!

Xavi6 wrote: »

Oh dear lord, that sounds horrific.

I know she will back out and not let it be played at all, well with the exception of sometime throughout the disco part of the wedding (Considering most of my friends are from various rugby teams it would be wrong not to play it).

I actually love the song, it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and I have been known to shed a tear while belting it out in the pub after a tough match.

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 12:46AM

cloneslad wrote: »

Oh and I don't bother singing the other one, I just wait for Ireland's call!! I also refuse to stand for the anthem at the end of a night out in the pub......it's a pointless exercise!

WeeBushy wrote: »

Yeah, I find that so cringeworthy... its awful. I try and run out of the place as fast as I can. It should only be sung at sporting occasions and the likes.

I have lived and travelled in many countries including japan, Korea, tunisia, most of europe and even the very communist china and I have yet to hear a national anthem being played at the end of the night.

stujey · 03-12-2009 12:50AM

I'm english born but Irish through ancestry (Dublin, Mayo, Kilkenny, Wexford and Armagh - working on Munster now!). I've managed to learn the anthem since arriving in April and feel the better for it.:)

Still not really sure what it all means but still gave it a blast at the recent rugby internationals. Looking forward to the more muted singing of it at the GAA next season now.

I can't believe somebody suggested a half English/Irish anthem. It's the Irish national anthem!! :mad:

I'd rank it up there with the best anthems but I don't think anything beats the French anthem.

Alessandra · 03-12-2009 12:53AM

I know it all. We had to learn it for our 5th class Christmas play and in the Gaeltacht.

Chicken Run · 03-12-2009 01:02AM

First and last lines...but I'm a blow-in.

Mind, from the amount of times I've heard it played I thought "Galway Girl" was the National Anthem for a while...

Mammanabammana · 03-12-2009 01:58AM

stujey wrote: »

I'd rank it up there with the best anthems but I don't think anything beats the French anthem.

Oooooh you's in dangerous territory there with the whole liking-something-French thing these days *coughworldcuphandballcheatinbackstardcough*. Tread carefully!

(And on the subject, I personally prefer the German to the French anthem)

Plus my birthday is the same as the brother of the composer of the German anthem random random...

OutlawPete · 03-12-2009 02:05AM

cloneslad wrote: »

it's been closed down now for over 5 or 6 years. My dad was a bit of a regular back in the day of dick crudden running the place

It became "an bonnan Bui" and if it was played in there I would have done whatever I was told for fear of an ass kickin

I have relations there. Spent lots of my childhood down there.

Used to love the little Casino. Use to play Phoenix (an old Space Invaders game) there till I'd get caught and kicked out.

Use to love The Diamond Bar and The Roost.

It's mad how close Clones is to the border, Sometimes we'd just be dropping someone home out the road after the pub and before we know it there would be soldiers stopping the car. So many "Unapproved Roads" etc

sparky360 · 03-12-2009 02:10AM

the first line and after that ....nothing...except the bit at the end that goes "deh-deh-deh-deh-deh........deh-deh-deh-deh-deh-deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh...........de-de-de-deeeeeh-de-deeeh---deh-deeeeeeeeeeeeeeh"

slipss · 03-12-2009 02:11AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I know it's called the Irish National Anthem. But I only know one or two lines of the song.

............ it's called Amhran na bhFiann. "the Irish national anthem" would be more of a description than a name.

(with a fada over the second a, not sure how to do them)

LizT · 03-12-2009 02:14AM

All of it.

Felt so proud when I watched the Irish rugby team singing it before their first match against England in croker.

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 02:43AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

I have relations there. Spent lots of my childhood down there.

Used to love the little Casino. Use to play Phoenix (an old Space Invaders game) there till I'd get caught and kicked out.

Use to love The Diamond Bar and The Roost.

It's mad how close Clones is to the border, Sometimes we'd just be dropping someone home out the road after the pub and before we know it there would be soldiers stopping the car. So many "Unapproved Roads" etc

I left clones when I was 18 to go to college and then did a bit fo travelling and work in asia. Moved back here a few months ago to finish my dissertation for my masters but dying to get out of it again but need a job first.

I played pool in the casino a few times, about the only time I was ever in it. My mate owns the roost, it's a grand wee pub, I go in there quite regularly to chat sh!t to him when he's working and you will get a few drunk fools playing republican songs on the juke box. I'd prefer to listen to the national anthem at the end of the night than listen to them sing crap for hours on end.

You don't get stopped on borders anymore, in fact when I go out running I do a loop that takes me back and forth across the border mulitiple times.

cloneslad · 03-12-2009 02:44AM

lizt wrote: »

All of it.

Felt so proud when I watched the Irish rugby team singing it before their first match against England in croker.

I felt even prouder when we sang Irelands call and beat them off the park in twickenham after they won the world cup

Pdfile · 03-12-2009 02:59AM

after 4 lines i fall asleep. :rolleyes:

How much of the Irish National Anthem Do You know?

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