Lyr ADD: There is an Isle

Subject: There Is an Isle
From: jtt
Date: 30 Oct 99 - 01:31 PM

Kevin Myers made the brilliant suggestion in The Irish Times the other day that There Is an Isle should be used as an anthem for the Ireland rugby team - which has members from the six counties and from the Republic of Ireland - and I went looking for it to play it happily. Then I found it's not on any of my CDs. Who recorded it recently? I want to sob along.

Subject: RE: There Is an Isle
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Oct 99 - 05:33 PM

jtt the only album i could find is by Tony Kenny
Irelands call.
ASIN B00000EQU
rec in 1997.
i will look some more wl.

Subject: There is an Isle
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 05:06 AM

Does anyone have the words of the Shannon rugby song There Is an Isle? Links to sung versions would be nice too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There is an Isle
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 21 Apr 00 - 10:54 AM

Don't want much do you :-)

Not sure what you want links to? The Shannon Rugby Club site is here and the lyrics to the song are here:

'There is an Isle'
There is an Isle
A bonnie Isle
Stands proudly from
Stands proudly from the sea
And dearer far than all this world
Is that dear Isle
Is that dear Isle to me
It is not that alone it stands
Where all around is fresh and fair
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there
Farewell, farewell
Though lands may meet
May meet my gaze
My gaze where e're I roam
I shall not find
A spot so fair
As that dear Isle
As that dear Isle to me
It is not that alone it stands
Where all around is fresh and fair
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there

Regards,

Ed

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There is an Isle
From: Thompson
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 12:59 AM

Anyone know the history of this song? Who wrote it? Where? When?

Subject: ADD: There is an Isle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 02:06 AM

Here's my transcription of a performance by Frankie Flynn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR07xvBVH1o

THERE IS AN ISLE

There is an isle (repeat)
A bonnie isle (repeat)
Stands proudly from
Stands proudly from the sea
And dearer far (repeat)
In all this world (repeat)
Is that dear isle
Is that dear isle to me
It is not that alone it stands (alone it stands)
While all around is fresh and fair (is fresh and fair)
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there
But because, it is my native land
And my home, my home is there

Farewell, farewell (repeat)
Though lands may meet (repeat)
May meet my gaze
My gaze where e'er I roam
I shall not find (repeat)
A spot so fair (repeat)
As that dear isle
As that dear isle to me
It is not that alone it stands (alone it stands)
Where all around is fresh and fair (is fresh and fair)

But because it is my native land
And my home, my home is there
But because it is my native land
And my home, my home is there

Shannon RFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkZEh3Gs2k

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle
From: Thompson
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 12:02 PM

Thank you, Joe. It's not the words I'm asking about - sorry if I should have done this with a new thread rather than raising an old one from the creaking dead - but the history of the song: who wrote it and so on.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 02:12 PM

A quick Google produced the following:

There is an isle

Sounds plausible enough...

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle
From: Thompson
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 02:49 PM

No link to the cited poem, though?

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 03:00 PM

True indeed.I must check "The National Song Book" which is where Robbie McMahon's "Path Across the Ocean" lurked, written by a Scot in Exile!

Regards