In Sport
The song was sung at football matches by fans of the Republic of Ireland team.The melody of the chorus was adapted for Ally's Tartan Army, the Scotland national football team's anthem for the FIFA World Cup 1978, this was itself adapted as the chorus of Put 'Em Under Pressure, the anthem for the Republic of Ireland team for the FIFA World Cup 1990.
Read more about this topic: God Save Ireland
Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)