The strident version of the national anthem still has fans, here and abroad. Getty Images The version of Amhrán na bhFiann played at the French embassy’s Bastille Day party, as I now know thanks to readers, was a 1965 recording by Our Lady’s Choral Society and the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra. That may help explain the nervous amusement with which the anthem was greeted, at least in my corner of the ambassador’s back garden, on Monday night. This was the first version of The Soldier’s Song – as the anthem was still generally known back – ever recorded, it seems....
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