'Amhrán na bhFiann' is showing its age and 'Ireland's Call' has never really lifted our spirits. To mark our national day, ' The Irish Times'asked Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh of the Duckworth Lewis Method to come up with a new anthem. Here are the lyrics, and you can hear the song in full at irishtimes.com
IRELAND, IRELAND by The Duckworth Lewis Method (2010)
Ireland, Ireland damp sod of
earth,
Lost on the surf of the north
Atlantic.
Ireland, Ireland mountains and
mist,
Vodka and chips, it’s so
romantic
Joyce and Heaney, Beckett
and Wilde.
Bill O’Herlihy, Dunphy and
Giles.
Evans, Hewson, Mullen and
Clayton,
Westlife and Jedward, the
pride of our nation!
Ireland, Ireland once we were
poor,
Then we were wealthy now
we are poor again.
Cows and horses, donkeys
and sheep,
Munster and Leinster,
Connaught and ******
Chinese, Polish, Africans too,
Doing the jobs we don’t want
to do.
An Irish stew, a nation of
nations,
Working for peanuts in petrol
stations!
Ireland, Ireland you are the
best,
Place to the west of Wales
and Scotland.
Sometimes it’s heaven
sometimes it’s hell,
But I’d rather be Irish than
anything else!
