(Not a political thread)
DH is watching the rugby so I heard Ireland's Call in the background, which got me thinking that if Ireland ever united in the future then we would probably need a new national anthem. My preference would be not to have another battle related one.
So, ignoring for the moment that I don't think I've sung the national anthem since I left school so it's largely irrelevant to me, I've been thinking about what sort of anthem we could have. I would quite like Hozier to compose it, mostly because I like his stuff so far. I think it should be a six part harmony, two parts for male, two for female and two for children and be simple but rousing. Each of the two part categories should work together without one of or both the other categories, so a completely male version would sound good but different to, say, a female and child version. I would like it to be about several types of weather in the same day, wild mountains, waves crashing on the shore, people banding together and lots of green (although now that I've typed that it sounds a bit Disney version of Ireland). It should be able to be sung unaccompanied but also sound good with traditional instruments.
(I should be sorting out the chaos in the kitchen, but I don't want to which is why I'm having a flight of fancy instead. 
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