With the Ireland rugby team representing both the Republic and Northern Ireland, "Ireland's Call" was scripted to help cross sectarian and national divides and adopted as the rugby anthem in 1995. However, at home matches in Dublin the Irish national anthem, The Soldier's Song, is also sung.
Ireland's Call
- Come the day and come the hour
- Come the power and the glory
- We have come to answer
- Our Country's call
- From the four proud provinces of Ireland
Chorus
- Ireland, Ireland,
- Together standing tall
- Shoulder to shoulder
- We'll answer Ireland's call
2
- From the mighty Glens of Antrim
- From the rugged hills of Galway
- From the walls of Limerick
- And Dublin Bay
- From the four proud provinces of Ireland
- (Chorus)
3
- Hearts of steel
- And heads unbowing
- Vowing never to be broken
- We will fight, until
- We can fight no more
- For the four proud provinces of Ireland
- (Chorus)
- Parts of the song not usually sung are in
italics.
Amhrán na bhFiann
(The Soldier's Song)
- Sinne Fianna Fáil a tá faoi gheall ag Éirinn,
- Buíon dár slua thar toinn do ráinig chughainn,
- Faoi mhóid bheith saor,
- Seantír ár sinsear feasta
- Ní fhágfar faoin tiorán ná faoin tráill.
.
- Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
- Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
- Le guna scréach faoi lámhach na bpiléar
- Seo libh canaig amhrán na bhFiann..
- 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 sire land
- Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
- Tonight we man the gap of danger
- In Erin's cause, come woe or weal,
- 'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal,
- We'll chant a soldier's song.