Amhrán na bhFiann

A letter writer to the Indo suggested that when the first notes were struck up, the crowd should instead sing God Save Ireland, The Waring of the Green, or The Boys of Wexford.

I've always wondered if it's deliberate or just a stroke of luck that a neighbouring pub to the Olympia today is called Padder Kearney's, The Patriot, author of The Soldier's Song and the uncle of Dominic and Brendan Behan.

He was said to bring one such playing of God Save the King to an abrupt end in 1915.

Theatres were highly flammable places and often maintained fire hoses within their own premises in the event of an emergency.

The protest is being organized by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Calls are growing for Amhrán na bhFiann to be made a compulsory part of the school curriculum.

Aontú Councillor Peter O'Donohue wants every primary and secondary school student to learn the national anthem.

The call comes as Ireland marks 100 years since it was officially adopted.

A Kiwi man asked me to sing the Irish national anthem, and I didn't actually know it.

I suppose I became more aware then that many people in Ireland don't actually know the national anthem.

Every citizen of Ireland should know Amhrán na bhFiann, that every child in school should be taught it, and that it is a failure of the state when they don't teach children the national anthem.

The Simon Communities of Ireland is calling for greater focus on single adults experiencing homelessness.

You will have to ditch the national anthem.

You know, Amhrán na bhFiann, the Soldier's Song.

It's a pretty militaristic anthem here in Ireland, and again, would not represent a new Ireland where you're trying to incorporate around a million people who identify as British.

So there was some polling done that put out some hypotheticals, like maybe you'd have to move the capital, maybe the parliament would be in Belfast, not Dublin, things like that.