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Kelly gets Ireland's call
Thursday, 08 June 2006
By PJ TAYLOR
• Howick and Pakuranga Times
AS the All Blacks and Ireland line-up for national songs at Eden Park in nine days, the spotlight will fall on a passionate Pakuranga musician and vocalist.
Irish ex-pat Sean Kelly, originally from Derry City, has been selected to sing Ireland’s rugby anthem in front of an excited and heaving Eden Park crowd, moments from the start of the second test in the All Blacks-Ireland series.
Mr Kelly is thrilled to have been chosen for the national duty. Like many ex-pat Irish folk, Mr Kelly loves being a New Zealander, having lived here for 16 years. But as the old saying goes, you can take the man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irish out of the man.
In January, Mr Kelly was featured by the
Times
, after he was named a finalist in the best folk album category in the New Zealand Music Awards, for his work,
See The Light
.
He’ll sing the Irishmen’s rugby anthem,
Ireland’s Call
, which was officially adopted in the 1990s.
That’s because the Irish rugby side has always represented the whole of the Emerald Isle, drawing players from Eire as well as Northern Ireland’s famous province, Ulster, where two of the game’s greatest players, 1960s and 1970s stars Willie John McBride and Mike Gibson, hailed from.
Ireland’s Call
Come the day and come the hour,
Come the power and the glory,
We have come to answer our country’s call,
From the four provinces of Ireland,
Ireland, Ireland,
Together standing tall,
Shoulder to shoulder,
We’ll answer Ireland’s call,
Ireland, Ireland,
Together standing tall,
Shoulder to shoulder,
We’ll answer Ireland’s call.
