Limerick rugby is acknowledged as being unique throughout the rugby playing world. The classless nature of the game as played in Limerick allied to the fierce loyalty and rivalry within Limerick’s rugby playing districts is unrivalled elsewhere.
Shannon Rugby Football Club is an amateur rugby union team from Ireland, they hail from Limerick near the banks of the Shannon river. The club is a member of the Irish Rugby Football Union Munster Branch and as one of the top amateur sides in Ireland has seen many of its players progress to professional and international rugby.
The Song, There Is An Isle, became the anthem of the Shannon Rugby Club
However, the provenance of the song itself is a matter of dispute. The first appearance of the words in Limerick was in the Limerick Chronicle in the 1860's but the music is said to have been composed by an English Sister of Mercy, Sister Barbara Dwan in St Mary's s Convent sometime in the 1940's. She was a talented musician and singer, and is said to have taught the song to her pupils who brought it home to their families.
There is an isle, a bonnie Isle,
Stands proudly from,
stands proudly from the sea
And dearer far than all this world
Is that dear Isle, is that dear Isle to me.
It is not that alone it stands
Where all around is fresh and fair,
But because it is my native land,
And my home, my home is there.
But because it is my native land,
And my home, my home is there. Farewell, farewell, though lands may meet,
May meet my gaze,
My gaze where’er I roam.
I shall not find a spot so fair
As that dear Isle, as that dear isle to me.
It is not that alone it stands
Where all around is fresh and fair,
But because it is my native land,
And my home, my home is there.
But because it is my native land,
And my home, my home is there.
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