Composer Phil Coulter said he penned it because he loved hearing a combination of the Irish accents singing together.

At home games at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Amhr�n na bhFiann (A Soldier's Song) - the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland - is also sung.

The song is regarded by nationalists as the national anthem of the whole of Ireland, but Unionists reject this use.

Ireland's Call

Come the day
And come the hour
Come the power and the glory
We have come to answer
Our country's call...
From the four proud provinces of Ireland

Chorus
Ireland, Ireland
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We'll answer Ireland's call.

From the mighty
Glens of Antrim
From the rugged hills of Galway
From the walls of Limerick
And Dublin Bay
From the four proud provinces of Ireland

(chorus)

Hearts of steel
And heads unbowing
Vowing never to be broken
We will fight, until
We can fight no more...
For the four proud provinces of Ireland.

(chorus)

Amhr�n na bhFiann

Irish version:

Sinne Fianna F�il
At� f� gheall ag �irinn,
Bu�on d�r slua
Thar toinn do r�inig chugainn,
F� mh�id bheith saor.
Seant�r �r sinsear feasta
N� fh�gfar f�n tior�n n� f�n tr�ill
Anocht a th�am sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun b�is n� saoil
Le gunna scr�ach f� l�mhach na bpil�ar
Seo libh canaidh Amhr�n na bhFiann.

English version:

Soldiers are we
whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
from a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
Tonight we man the bhearna bhaoil ('gap of danger')
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal;
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles' peal,
We'll chant a soldier's song.