Editing Ireland's Call (section)

==Rugby history==
From the [[Partition of Ireland]] until the 1930s, no flag or anthem was used at Ireland rugby internationals. After objections from clubs in the then [[Irish Free State]], a compromise was agreed to use an IRFU flag, with "Amhrán na bhFiann" at matches in the Free State, "[[God Save the King]]" at those in Northern Ireland, and no anthem at away matches.<ref name="Cronin2007">{{cite book |editor-last=Maguire |editor-first=Joseph |last=Cronin |first=Mike |title=Power and Global Sport: Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhqCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |access-date=22 November 2017 |date=7 May 2007 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134527274 |pages=122–124 |chapter=Rugby globalisation and Irish identity}}</ref><ref name="Moore 96">{{cite book|editor-last1=Dolan|editor-first1=Paddy|editor-last2=Connolly|editor-first2=John|title=Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WA1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT96 |access-date=22 November 2017 |date=13 September 2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781315519111 |page=96 |chapter=Partition in Irish sport during the 1950s |first=Cormac|last=Moore}}</ref><ref name="Lenihan 2016 p.82">Lenihan 2016 p.82</ref> Ulster unionist players are not expected to sing "Amhrán na bhFiann".<ref>Lenihan 2016 p.70</ref> There were no senior internationals played in Northern Ireland from 1954 to 2007.<ref name="theguardian20060822"/><ref name="Cronin2007"/> [[Des Fitzgerald]] declined to play a 1982 [[Ireland Wolfhounds|B international]] in Belfast as "God Save the Queen" would be played.<ref>Lenihan 2016 p.72</ref> Before a [[1954 Five Nations Championship|1954 Five Nations]] match in [[Ravenhill Stadium|Ravenhill]], Belfast, players from the Republic refused to take the field until after "God Save the Queen" had finished. [[Cahir Healy]] negotiated a compromise whereby the [[honors music|Royal Salute]] was played instead of the full anthem, and promised that future internationals would be played in Dublin. The incident was hushed up. Playing all matches at [[Lansdowne Road]] suited the IRFU in any case, since gate receipts would be larger than at Ravenhill.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/feb/27/comment.gdnsport3|title=How Ravenhill rebels made an issue out of an anthem|last=Keating|first=Frank|date=27 February 2007|work=[[TheGuardian.com]]|access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="Cronin2007"/><ref name="Moore 96"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rigby |first1=Vic |last2=O'Callaghan |first2=Liam |editor1-last=Ní Fhuartháin |editor1-first=Méabh |editor2-last=Doyle |editor2-first=David M. |title=Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture |date=2013 |publisher=Irish Academic Press |isbn=9780716531548 |pages=98–113 |language=en |chapter=The Riddle of Ravenhill: The 1954 Irish Rugby International in Belfast}}</ref>

Unionist opposition to "Amhrán na bhFiann" was strengthened on 25 April 1987, when an IRA roadside bomb killed judge [[Maurice Gibson]] and his wife, and also damaged a car carrying three of the senior squad from Belfast to Dublin for training.<ref name="Lenihan 2016 p.82"/> [[David Irwin (rugby union)|David Irwin]] and [[Philip Rainey]] recovered but [[Nigel Carr]]'s rugby career was ended by his injuries.<ref>Lenihan 2016 pp.82–84</ref> The next month, at the [[1987 Rugby World Cup|inaugural Rugby World Cup]], captain [[Donal Lenihan]] objected that all other teams would have an anthem. At the last minute before the side's opening match in [[Athletic Park, Wellington]], a [[James Last]] cassette recording of "[[The Rose of Tralee (song)|The Rose of Tralee]]" was borrowed from [[Phil Orr]]; the music and poor recording quality attracted much criticism and no anthem was played for later matches.<ref>Lenihan 2016 pp.82–86; {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/its-a-different-world-since-it-all-began-in-1987-26767940.html|title=It's a different world since it all began in 1987|last=Glennon|first=Jim|date=4 September 2011|work=[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]|access-date=21 November 2017}}</ref> At the [[1991 Rugby World Cup|1991 World Cup]], there was no anthem away to [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]], Ireland's only game outside Dublin.<ref>Lenihan 2016 p.86</ref>

For the [[1995 Rugby World Cup|1995 World Cup]] in South Africa, the IRFU decided to commission a song from [[Phil Coulter]].<ref name="Rouse2015">{{cite book|last=Rouse|first=Paul|title=Sport and Ireland: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=632ECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT360|access-date=21 November 2017|date=2015-10-08|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780191063039|page=360}}</ref><ref name="irishexaminer169995"/> His composition, "Ireland's Call", has since been played alongside "Amhrán na bhFiann" at matches within the Republic, and on its own elsewhere.<ref name="irishexaminer169995">{{cite news|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/should-the-irish-players-be-singing-amhran-na-bhfiann-at-the-world-cup-in-new-zealand-169995.html|title=Should the Irish players be singing Amhrán na bhFiann at the World Cup in New Zealand?|date=8 October 2011|work=Irish Examiner|access-date=21 November 2017}}</ref> Ireland's match against [[England national rugby union team|England]] at [[Croke Park]] in the [[2007 Six Nations Championship]] was of historic significance because of the [[Rule 42]] ban and the memory of [[Bloody Sunday 1920]]; ''[[The Irish Times]]'' commented, '"Amhrán na bhFiann" and "Ireland's Call" were belted out with such hair-raising intensity that men and women were crying as they sang'.<ref>{{Cite news
|publisher=[[The Irish Times]]
|title=Hair-raising cry of anthems fills Croker with pride and joy
|date=26 February 2007
|access-date=26 May 2008
|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/0226/1172185106645.html
}}</ref> Prior to the 2007 resumption of internationals at [[Ravenhill Stadium]], Belfast, the IRFU decided that only "Ireland's Call" would be played, not "God Save the Queen", prompting complaints from some unionists that this did not match the playing of "Amhrán na bhFiann" in Dublin.<ref name="theguardian20060822">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/22/northernireland.rugbyunion|title=Row over anthem as Irish rugby prepares for match in Belfast|last=Bowcott|first=Owen|date=22 August 2006|work=[[TheGuardian.com]]|access-date=8 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/rugby-international-sparks-anthem-row-at-ravenhill-1-1891535|title=Rugby international sparks anthem row at Ravenhill|date=13 November 2009|work=[[The News Letter]]|access-date=22 November 2017|location=Belfast}}</ref>