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A Nation Once Again
"A Nation Once Again" is an Irish nationalist song published in 1844 with lyrics by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). It has been set to various tunes.
Davis, a Protestant nationalist from County Cork, was one of the three co-founders of Young Ireland, a movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain.
He had a Romantic conception of Irish identity. In his view, "Ireland was a spiritual reality based on historic cultural tradition, and anyone who adopted Ireland as his homeland, regardless of his religion or when he arrived, was Irish. Davis's editorials, patriotic verse, and enthusiastic support for reviving the Irish language made him the most respected and admired of the Young Irelanders... Davis also believed strongly that Irish national identity should be secular and disapproved of what he saw as undue clerical influence on Daniel O'Connell and the repeal movement."
Davis was influenced by the ideas of Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803). For Herder nationality was not genetic but the product of climate, geography, history and inclination. Davis did write of an "unsaxonised" Ireland, but this was not an Ireland ethnically cleansed of those of his own British ancestry and reformed religion. Rather it was an Ireland in which Catholic and Protestant alike, find sufficient unity and strength in their education and in their "recollections, ancestral, personal, national" to resist England's "unnatural", "cosmopolite" influence.
Davis argued that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people and, in particular, on the Irish. He wrote, "Music is the first faculty of the Irish... we will endeavour to teach the people to sing the songs of their country that they may keep alive in their minds the love of the fatherland." He wrote that, "A song is worth a thousand harangues".
"A Nation Once Again" was first published in Young Ireland's newspaper, The Nation, (of which Davis was a co-founder and the editor), on July 13th, 1844.
The song quickly became a rallying call for the growing Irish nationalist movement of that time.
Davis' lyrics use a simple ABABCDCD rhyme scheme, with verses of eight lines, and alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.[citation needed]
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A Nation Once Again
"A Nation Once Again" is an Irish nationalist song published in 1844 with lyrics by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). It has been set to various tunes.
Davis, a Protestant nationalist from County Cork, was one of the three co-founders of Young Ireland, a movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain.
He had a Romantic conception of Irish identity. In his view, "Ireland was a spiritual reality based on historic cultural tradition, and anyone who adopted Ireland as his homeland, regardless of his religion or when he arrived, was Irish. Davis's editorials, patriotic verse, and enthusiastic support for reviving the Irish language made him the most respected and admired of the Young Irelanders... Davis also believed strongly that Irish national identity should be secular and disapproved of what he saw as undue clerical influence on Daniel O'Connell and the repeal movement."
Davis was influenced by the ideas of Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803). For Herder nationality was not genetic but the product of climate, geography, history and inclination. Davis did write of an "unsaxonised" Ireland, but this was not an Ireland ethnically cleansed of those of his own British ancestry and reformed religion. Rather it was an Ireland in which Catholic and Protestant alike, find sufficient unity and strength in their education and in their "recollections, ancestral, personal, national" to resist England's "unnatural", "cosmopolite" influence.
Davis argued that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people and, in particular, on the Irish. He wrote, "Music is the first faculty of the Irish... we will endeavour to teach the people to sing the songs of their country that they may keep alive in their minds the love of the fatherland." He wrote that, "A song is worth a thousand harangues".
"A Nation Once Again" was first published in Young Ireland's newspaper, The Nation, (of which Davis was a co-founder and the editor), on July 13th, 1844.
The song quickly became a rallying call for the growing Irish nationalist movement of that time.
Davis' lyrics use a simple ABABCDCD rhyme scheme, with verses of eight lines, and alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.[citation needed]