Sir, I am sorry that I cannot supply A. Cronin, Woodlawn Park with a copy of the national anthem in English and Irish. However I can tell him that the anthem was written in English by Peadar Kearney and the chorus was intended to be sung as the National Anthem, as I remember it well in my youth "So-o-ldiers are we, whose lives
Later, it was deemed that the National Anthem should be sung in Irish, and only in Irish. As we know, the translation of soldiers should have been saighdiuiri, but Mr de Valera was in power and the word soldiers" suddenly became "Fianna Fail". And so we got Sinne Fianna Fail.
Since the early days, there has been a considerable drop, in the volume when the Anthem is sung.. - Yours, etc., Belgrove, Duncormick, Co Wexford.