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Is it time for a new National Anthem?

  • 17-12-2014 06:13PM
    #1
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭


    I don't particularly agree with our current anthem since I believe there is more to being Irish than going out to fight Saxons. Do we have any other defining feature besides being oppressed?

    I'm indebted to those who laboured, fought and struggled to gain Independence but that's surely not the only facet of 'Irishness', is it?

    Do you know the entire words of the song as gaeilge and do you know what they mean in English?


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  • #2
    skeleton_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭skeleton_boy


    No


  • #3
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    I really like the German one....


  • #4
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    If they could replicate the sound of money being pissed up a wall, I'd vote for that as our new anthem.


  • #5
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,107 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    No


  • #6
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I'm happy the way it is.

    OP this related to the whole Sinead O Connor thinge?


    Not Ireland's Call anyhow!!!!!!!!


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  • #7
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Yes.


  • #8
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    The French one is pretty decent as well...but I still prefer the German one


  • #9
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    i think we should borrow the lyrics of the spanish national anthem


  • #10
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Its better than appealing to a deity to protect a hereditary monarch


  • #11
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    iDave wrote: »
    Its better than appealing to a deity to protect a hereditary monarch

    Nice bit of Brit-bashing 7/10


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  • #12
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Beano wrote: »
    i think we should borrow the lyrics of the spanish national anthem

    They don't have any lyrics. It is instrumental.


  • #13
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    You're right OP, we should have an anthem that reflects us fighting vikings and baloobas as well.


  • #14
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    No. And if we did, it should also be in Irish.


  • #15
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    MadsL wrote: »
    Nice bit of Brit-bashing 7/10

    Not Brit-bashing its just a **** song. Land of Hope and Glory on the other hand.


  • #16
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    They don't have any lyrics. It is instrumental.

    :rolleyes:


  • #17
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    How about this. Its catchy and the words are easy to remember.



  • #18
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    They don't have any lyrics. It is instrumental.


    http://img.pandawhale.com/46534-Simpsons-McBain-THATS-THE-JOKE-ykEL.jpeg


  • #19
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Needs to be this.

    http://youtu.be/iBT4ZWy6Lm4


  • #20
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    We should switch the flag to the old fenian harp too, not only would we have a flag with a musical instrument on it, we'd have a flag with a pair of diddies on it too

    Take that flags of the world


  • #21
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Should the French stop singing about forming their battalions and letting impure blood water their furrows? Je ne crois pas.


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  • #22
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,107 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    They don't have any lyrics. It is instrumental.

    I think that was the point.


  • #23
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Beano wrote: »
    i think we should borrow the lyrics of the spanish national anthem
    Nice to see you caught something in the nets. Good fishing. :)


  • #24
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    diomed wrote: »
    Nice to see you caught something in the nets. Good fishing. :)

    it was easier than i thought


  • #25
    mackerski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭mackerski


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    No. And if we did, it should also be in Irish.

    The current one was written in English. The Irish version is a translation.


  • #26
    lennyloulou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭lennyloulou


    Absolutely not.
    All though I am not a raving nationalist republican etc I am getting tired of how we as a nation are quick to change and bend under the power of politicians, reforms, EU policies.......
    Let us hold on to something that is there for years that when we hear it we recognise it as part of our Irish-ness! Whether here in Ireland or abroad!

    Although other anthems may sound musically easier on the ear I will never forget the pride in my heart when Katie Taylor won in the Olympics and our Anthem was played!


  • #27
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Beano wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    What's the face about. You got it wrong and I corrected you. Take it on the chin mate!


  • #28
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I love our anthem, it always beings tears to my eyes!

    Does it not talk about fighting despots and not Saxons tho? Can only remember the first verse.


  • #29
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    What's the face about. You got it wrong and I corrected you. Take it on the chin mate!

    He threw the bait out and you bit it, it was a joke ffs :pac:


  • #30
    galwaylad14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭galwaylad14


    lazybones32 wrote: »
    I don't particularly agree with our current anthem since I believe there is more to being Irish than going out to fight Saxons. Do we have any other defining feature besides being oppressed?

    I'm indebted to those who laboured, fought and struggled to gain Independence but that's surely not the only facet of 'Irishness', is it?

    Do you know the entire words of the song as gaeilge and do you know what they mean in English?


    While we're at it why don't we just give them a few more counties altogether aswell? Maybe we could all sing God Save the Queen as our new anthem altogther?


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  • #31
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Beano wrote: »
    i think we should borrow the lyrics of the spanish national anthem
    bin dun

    olé
    olé olé olé
    olé
    olé


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