Planet Rugby decided to pay a visit to a few club websites during the week and one of the best is that of four-time AIB League champions, Shannon. The graphics are good and the site is informative. Taking a particular shine to the heading, `Songbook', it revealed the words to several Shannon songs - it is also possible to hear them by downloading the wav.audio file - and provided a background to Shannon's most famous victory anthem, The Isle.
The Isle, originated as a Scottish poem and was put to music in 1924 by Anna Maria Lynch, a teacher in St Mary's girls school at the time. It got its first rendition outside Cowey's public house (now Radcliff's) on Athlunkard Street in the `Parish'. Whenever Shannon proved victorious in recent years, they would call upon the `Bard of Thomond' Frankie O'Flynn to do it justice. Now you know!
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