Eire Celtic Ireland - A Nation once again -Wolf Tones

"A Nation Once Again" is a song, written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (18141845). Davis was a founder of an Irish movement whose aim was the independence of Ireland.

The song is a prime example of the "Irish rebel music" sub-genre (though it does not celebrate fallen Irish freedom fighters by name, or cast aspersions on the British government as so many rebel songs do). The song's narrator dreams of a time when Ireland will be, as the title suggests, a free land, with "our fetters rent in twain." The lyrics exhort, albeit with less vitriol than some rebel songs, Irishmen to stand up and fight for their land: "And righteous men must make our land a nation once again."

It has been recorded by many Irish singers and groups, notably John McCormack, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The Wolfe Tones in 1972, (a group with clearly Republican leanings), the Poxy Boggards, and The Irish Tenors (John McDermott, Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns) and Sean Conway for a 2007 single. In the Beatles' movie "A Hard Day's Night", Paul's grandfather begins singing the song at the British police officers after they arrest him for peddling autographed pictures of the lads.

In 2002, "A Nation Once Again" was voted the world's most popular song according to a BBC World Service global poll of listeners, ahead of "Vande Mataram",[1] the national song of India.

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[filmnyc1956]

Ireland forever hail the green white and gold

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@speakswahilidammit Sawsnek. ha tis Sasnach or sasnaigh(plural) in Irish aswell. To be quit honest I dont think Cornwall has a hope. Wales and Scotlands balls have dropped off so what hope dose the smallest Celtic nation have? Hope you but down your nationality as Cornish in the latest census!

[speakswahilidammit]

We Cornish have also suffered under the imperial boot of the Sawsnek. You are a beacon - the first independent Celtic Nation. Hope we can rely on your brotherhood in our own struggle. We also need to be free!

[josparkes1]

Brilliant song, love it !

[KungfuCow5]

Up the Republic!

[larsjune1]

Long live freedom!