Tiocfaidh ár lá

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Tiocfaidh ár lá (Irish pronunciation:

political murals,[6] and been shouted by IRA defendants being convicted in British and Irish courts,[3][7] and by their supporters in the public gallery.[8][9] For Timothy Shanahan, the slogan "captures [a] confident sense of historical destiny".[10] Derek Lundy comments, "Its meaning is ambiguous. It promises a new day for a hitherto repressed community, but it is also redolent of payback and reprisal."[11]

Origins

The literal English phrase "our day will come" has been used in unrelated contexts, for example as the title of a 1963 pop song by Ruby & the Romantics. A foreshadowing of the republican slogan is in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, when the nationalist Michael Davin (based on George Clancy) says Irish republicans "died for their ideals, Stevie. Our day will come yet, believe me."[12]

The Irish phrase tiocfaidh ár lá is attributed to

blanketmen".[24] Republican consciousness raising around the hunger strikes increased awareness of the Irish language in Northern Ireland's nationalist community.[25]

Some Irish-language speakers, including

Béarlachas.[17][26][27][28] Mac Giolla Chríost is less categorical, on the basis that tiocfaidh an lá ('the day will come') is standard Irish;[17] on the other hand, he says tiocfaidh ár lá typifies the "deviant" nature of Jailtacht Irish.[27]

Instances

ard fheis, new party leader Mary Lou McDonald concluded her speech with tiocfaidh ár lá.[33] The phrase, which was not on the script circulated in advance, was criticised by politicians from Fianna Fáil ("hark back to a very dark time"), Fine Gael ("irresponsible"), and the Ulster Unionist Party ("stale rhetoric").[33]

Tiocfaidh Ár Lá (TÁL) is the name of a fanzine for Celtic F.C.'s Irish republican ultras.[34] It was established in 1991, at which time Celtic were enduring a period of prolonged inferiority to Rangers F.C., their Old Firm rivals, giving "our day will come" an extra resonance.[35] Irish-American folk-rock band LeperKhanz released a 2005 album named Tiocfaidh Ár Lá.[36]

The 1992 and 1993 editions of

Point Depot in Dublin, David Bowie says Tiocfaidh ár [lá] during the applause after "Rebel Rebel". Gerry Leonard claims to have suggested it to Bowie.[41]

In 2019, Una Mullally commented about an upsurge in the appropriation of Troubles-era slogans by young Irish people on both sides of the border: "There's a tacit understanding that a lot of the mindless repetition of IRA slogans such as 'Tiocfaidh ár lá', 'Up the RA' and 'Brits out' is purposefully goofy — even if the latter two at least are offensive."[42] A performance the same year in University College Dublin by Kneecap, an Irish-language hip hop trio from West Belfast, was terminated when they led the audience in a chant of Tiocfaidh ár lá, breaching the university's policies for "Dignity", "Respect", and "Equality, Diversity & Inclusion".[43] JD Sports apologised in 2020 when its online catalogue depicted a branded kit for the Northern Ireland football team worn by a model with a visible tattoo reading "ticofaidh ár lá" [sic].[44] In 2021, a Derry charity video Christmas card was withdrawn after protests of its depiction of Gerry Adams singing "Deck the Halls" with "Fa, la, la, la, la, la ..." changed to "tiocfaidh ár lá, lá, lá ...".[2][45]

Legal cases

The 2007 arrest of Irish-language activist Máire Nic an Bhaird in Belfast was allegedly in part for saying tiocfaidh ár lá to Police Service of Northern Ireland officers, although she claimed to have said tiocfaidh bhur lá ("your day will come").[46]

In 2014, a man who shouted the phrase outside a

freedom of expression was rejected.[47]

In 2017, the Fair Employment Tribunal awarded damages to a Catholic employee who had been dismissed after taking sick leave in response to a Protestant manager shouting Tiocfaidh ár lá at her.[48]

Allusions

IRA

unionist who will be forced to learn Irish.[52]

Other

Irish-Ireland' cultural missal".[55] The introduction, by Stephen Brown of Ulster University, to a 2006 survey of "Celtic marketing" was titled "Tiocfaidh ár lá".[56]

Commenting on unionist Peter Robinson's impending retirement at a 2015 meeting of the North/South Ministerial Council, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said, "my day too will come at some stage", at which Robinson sparked laughter by responding, "It's Tiocfaidh ár Lá isn't it."[57] Bookmaker Paddy Power advertised its odds for the outcome of Ireland's 2015 same-sex marriage referendum using a photo of kissing men wearing paramilitary-style balaclavas and the tagline Tiocfaidh ár lá.[58]

The

SAM missiles in the sky".[59]

In October 2021, former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage unwittingly used republican slogans in several scripted video clips ordered via Cameo, including a putative birthday message to "Gerard" from "Con and Maggie" at "Chucky Arlaw's in Brighton".[60]

Variants

Similar slogans include:

Beidh ár lá linn mural in Andersonstown in 1989
Beidh an lá linn
(Irish pronunciation: [bʲɛj ə ˈl̪ˠaː l̠ʲɪn̠ʲ]) literally translates as "the day will be with us".[26] Ciarán Carson says it is more idiomatic Irish than tiocfaidh ár lá.[26] The hybrid form beidh ár lá linn ([bʲɛj aːɾˠ ˈl̪ˠaː l̠ʲɪn̠ʲ]; "our day will be with us") is also found among republicans.[61]
Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach!
(
last words from the gallows of Edmund Power of Dungarvan, executed for his part in the Wexford Rebellion of 1798. The phrase was often cited by Éamon de Valera.[62] It occurs in the play An Giall, by Brendan Behan; his English translation, The Hostage, renders it "we'll have another day". It is echoed in There will be another day, the title of republican Peadar O'Donnell's 1963 memoir.[63] The slogan is not exclusively a political slogan, and may simply mean "another chance will come".[64]

Parodies of tiocfaidh ár lá include:

Chucky
an
pronunciation spelling of tiocfaidh, it is pejorative for an Irish republican (sometimes shortened to Chuck).[65]
Tiocfaidh Armani
mocking Sinn Féin's move towards respectability from the peace process[66][67]
"Tiocfaidh Ar La La"
on T-shirts depicting the eponymous Teletubby as an IRA member.[68]
"Tiocfaidh Arlene"
various jokes about
First Minister of Northern Ireland.[69]

See also

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