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THE COPYRIGHT WILL be lifted on one of Ireland’s most famous songs from tomorrow – Amhrán na bhFiann, the national anthem.
Penned by Peadar Kearney in 1907, the 70th anniversary of Kearney’s death this year means that EU copyright will no longer apply to the song.
The original English lyrics for A Soldier’s Song were written by Kearney, and Liam Ó Rinn translated them as gaeilge.
At an auction in 2006 in Dublin, the first draft of the song on paper was sold for €760,000.
Independent TD Maureen O’Sullivan told TheJournal.ie that she hopes the government will reclaim its copyright – which it has held since the Department of Finance acquired it in 1934 – on the anthem, but that it has to be enshrined in law for this to be the case.
“I do hope something will happen that it will be protected,” she said. “The people I had been in touch with about I will be in touch with again.”
“I don’t think it would be difficult,” she said of the process.
O’Sullivan said she was concerned about how the song could be used once in the public domain.
I wouldnt want it to be seen as a jingle for an ad.
Deputy O’Sullivan added that while most people are respectful towards Ireland’s national anthem, with social media and other avenues there is the possibility it could be misused.
The Dublin TD went to school with Kearney’s granddaughter and had been in touch with his family about the issue.
Now that the copyright has ended on the piece, it may beg the question for some about whether it needs to be replaced.
It was adopted in 1926 as the Irish national anthem, so do you think it is time to replace it – or would that be an awful thought?
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But at the end of the month we’ll be told, it was the hottest June on record
@Max: just said the same. Sure, we need a good auld global warming scare story to keep the plebs in line and paying taxes, and now apparently, we need a green energy surcharge on our energy bills to subsidise renewable energy.
@Mike Carson: Did you know that it being locally cool in Ireland doesn’t mean that the average global temperature is cooler? That nuance means that although it may well be a cool June for Ireland we could also have the hottest June on record globally? Mind-blowing isn’t it.
@Diarmuid Hunt: they will say highest temperature in Ireland like before
@Diarmuid Hunt: Did you know that Ireland has a maritime climate as one research topic among many?.
If you believe climate is one this, in this case long-term weather, you are a good candidate to having your mind lost.
Last month’s announcement was a low point, yet society is no longer slavish to the ‘trust-the-science’ slogan after the discovery that the experimentalists were messing around with more infectious viruses at that lab in Wuhan.
It will take quite an effort to undo the damage inflicted on the Earth science of climate yet it can be done.
@Gerald Kelleher: If you dispute the climate models, then please tell us yours.
You have been asked this many times, but have yet to do so.
And yes, we all know that Ireland has a maritime climate.
As does Jamaica.
@Diarmuid Hunt: Well said
@Gerald Kelleher: Yes, I know that you can’t understand that climate changes over time and that although there is a natural occurrence of this we can measure that humans are and have been rapidly accelerating this change because…. God. Understanding something and trusting it is one thing, not understanding something and having blind faith in it is another.
@Gerald Kelleher: (Galileo and Darwin’s secret nazi plot.)
Coldest most depressing June that I can ever remember, and I’m no spring chicken. Freezing cycling into work in the morning, more like March than June.
@The Firestarter:
Wonder would the government give us a voucher for a holiday in the sun to boost our health,and vitamin D.
Hotels are so scarce,and the prices in Ireland so outrageous that most people can only afford 2 or 3 days and that’s at a big stretch.
Mind you ,the weather would not entice you anywhere.
Interesting to hear feedback from foreign tourists.
@The Firestarter: better have a hosepipe ban all the same just in case we get one hot day next month just as well ya cycle they will probably not let us wash cars either
Global warming must be every other part of the globe but here
Worst. Summer. Ever.
@Brian Dunne: summer hasent started,,,20th june i was told by some expert on here a while back,,,dont mock the messenger,
@james rowan: longest day of the year next week so days getting shorter front there
And they will tell us next month that it has been the hottest June on record.
@Mike Carson: if it turns out to be hottest June on record, yes they will. Why wouldn’t they? If it’s not, they won’t. Simple really.
Do you actually believe that they are faking the data? Worldwide everyone is in cahoots, faking the data?
@Soundy Sound: would you like to buy some magic beans?
@Old Jim: you really think that there’s a worldwide conspiracy faking weather data? Really? Who is behind it? How have they gotten everyone on board to corroborate this? How do they agree on the fake data? Think about for one moment and you’ll realise how dumb it is to believe this. It is genuinely worrying that people think like this. People with votes. People with responsible positions. The mind really boggles!
Damn you Climate Change. If we stop reclying our coffee cups for the next few days will it get a little warmer?
@David Field: Just make sure to return your overpriced plastic bottles to tesco instead of putting them in your green bin. That’s apparently way better for the environment, even though those machines are out of order half the time. I don’t understand how it works exactly, but I “trust de science”.
Irish summers are just so depressing
Ok a dull June not much sunshine However it’s the Cold I’m shocked at!!! Unreal for June ..
Its a disgrace, they should do something about this..I bet people are sorry they didn’t vote for SF in the recent elections. They’d sort this out if they got a chance.
Lovely weather in May, paying for it the rest of sumner.
@Trevor Schmitt: Was it really that nice, or was it because Met Eireann said it was the hottest May ever. From what I remember it wasn’t bad, certainly noting to get overly excited about.
@The Firestarter: May had one good week here with us been cold ever since.
@Trevor Schmitt:
I was a child when I last witnessed a full summer of sunshine.
One good month now,and you get penalised .
@Mary.E.: The effects of climate change – die to increasing global temperatures – on Ireland is not yet known.
It could result is much more cloud cover, with less sunshine and more rain, during the summer.
It could result in bitter, bitter winters, if the Gulf Stream (which scientists call the AMOC) weakens a lot, or shuts down. The Gulf Stream which keeps us warm in the winter has already weakened by 15%. Without it we would have winters comparable to Labrador.
There are many possible outcomes for Ireland.
Why is it so cold? I have the fire lit
It must be cold in D4. It’s quite nice in my area. But I suppose the weather outside the Pale is irrelevant.
@Patrick MC Dermott: 16C in Cork.
It’s very upsetting that we are now in the middle of June with the longest day of the year approaching and we are witnessing obvious signs of an ever worsening situation with global warming. Sadly we are not the beneficiaries of the warmer weather.
Why too expensive rip off Ireland here to stay especially current government looking likely to be voted in for another fews years of hardship for lots of Irish people.
Bad summer hard if trying to grow veg though . Definitely see why people going abroad ors not the weather more the costs here
@martin finnegan: If you are finding it difficult to grow “veg” and I presume you mean root vegetables, it’s because of climate change, our springs are colder have been for 10 years, adapt add 4 weeks to planting what you need , or put half in as you did normally and compare . I didn’t harvest early spuds last year until the end of August, ……
The message from the EU elections is that there has been a reaction to political parties driven by the academic conviction of climate change modelling. With the belief that they are also left-driven politics, the swing to the right registers this imbalance in society as there is nowhere else to go.
The conviction of controlling the weather by controlling human behaviour is contrary to a civilised society. Although the majority will rightfully be concerned for cleaner air, rivers, and countryside, that is the limits of human influence.
Dealing with the scientific method subculture behind it all is an altogether different priority as the comments here in support of that disruptive subculture testify.
@Gerald Kelleher: it’s apparent that you never really recovered from not getting your degree.
Fianna Gael at it again with the Immersion!
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