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30 Oct 99 - 01:31 PM (#129855) Subject: There Is an Isle From: jtt 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. |
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30 Oct 99 - 05:33 PM (#129900) Subject: RE: There Is an Isle From: wildlone jtt the only album i could find is by Tony Kenny Irelands call. ASIN B00000EQU rec in 1997. i will look some more wl. |
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21 Apr 00 - 05:06 AM (#215502) Subject: There is an Isle From: GUEST,JTT Does anyone have the words of the Shannon rugby song There Is an Isle? Links to sung versions would be nice too. |
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21 Apr 00 - 10:54 AM (#215572) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There is an Isle From: Ed Pellow 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' Regards, Ed |
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30 Jan 22 - 12:59 AM (#4134375) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There is an Isle From: Thompson Anyone know the history of this song? Who wrote it? Where? When? |
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30 Jan 22 - 02:06 AM (#4134379) Subject: ADD: There is an Isle From: Joe Offer Here's my transcription of a performance by Frankie Flynn: 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 |
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30 Jan 22 - 12:02 PM (#4134424) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle From: Thompson 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. |
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30 Jan 22 - 02:12 PM (#4134436) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle From: GUEST,Martin Ryan A quick Google produced the following: There is an isle Sounds plausible enough... Regards |
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30 Jan 22 - 02:49 PM (#4134442) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle From: Thompson No link to the cited poem, though? |
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30 Jan 22 - 03:00 PM (#4134443) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: There is an Isle From: GUEST,Martin Ryan 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 |