A Nation Once Again - Our Lady's Choral Society (1965)

"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. "A Nation Once Again" was first published in The Nation on 13 July 1844 and quickly became a rallying call for the growing Irish nationalist movement at that time.

[@andrewlally7828]

Small country massive people

[@Falgen]

May I have the lyrics please? I Subcribed🎉

[@youngireland2306]

Lyrics:
When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood
Three hundred men and three men
And there I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain
And Ireland, long a province be
A nation once again
Chorus:
A nation once again (x2)
And Ireland, long a province be
A nation once again
And, from that time, through wildest woe.
That hope has shone, a far light;
Nor could love's brightest summer glow
Outshine that solemn starlight.
It seemed to watch above my head
In forum, field, and fane;
Its angel voice sang round my bed,
"A Nation Once Again."
Chorus:
A nation once again (x2)
Its angel voice sang round my bed,
"A Nation Once Again."
It whisper'd too, that freedom's ark
And service high and holy
Would be prepared by feelings dark
And passion vain or lowly
For freedom comes from God's right hand
And needs a godly train
And righteous men must make our land
A nation once again
Chorus:
A nation once again (x2)
And righteous men must make our land
A nation once again
So as I grew from boy to man
I bent me to that bidding
My spirit of each selfish plan
And cruel passion ridding
For thus I hoped some day to aid
Oh, can such hope be vain
When my dear country should be made
A nation once again
Chorus:
A nation once again (x2)
When my dear country should be made
A nation once again

[@Falgen]

​@@youngireland2306O thank you!

[@johnnotrealname8168]

This has many errors by the way.

[@andrewlally7828]

Should be the national anthem

[@johnnotrealname8168]

This should be the actual National Anthem for Éire and I write this as someone who hates the Young Irelanders.

[@AnCoilean]

Why do you hate them

[@johnnotrealname8168]

​@@AnCoileanUtter ne'erdowells.

[@AnCoilean]

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[@swaythegod5812]

@@johnnotrealname8168Yet Rome is long gone and yet Ireland is still here

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@swaythegod5812 I was not arguing about Rome or Irish independence as such.

[@andrewlally7828]

These are the Whire Iŕish

[@andrewlally7828]

I meant white Irish

[@andrewlally7828]

I meant white and proud

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