Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Music: Patrick Heeney, 1910
Lyrics: Liam Ó Rinn, 1923 (Irish), Peadar Kearney, 1909 (English)
Adopted: July 12, 1924
Music: Patrick Heeney, 1910
Lyrics: Liam Ó Rinn, 1923 (Irish), Peadar Kearney, 1909 (English)
Adopted: July 12, 1924

![Vive Henri IV - French Royal Anthem [Revolutionary France Tribute]
Based on a video I made back in 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhxoAKxEmo&ab_channel=IanBerwick Vive Henri IV - French Royal Anthem [Revolutionary France Tribute]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TJLMjvZQJvw/mqdefault.jpg)
![National Anthem: Belarus - Мы, беларусы
Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Belarus kept the anthem it used as a soviet socialist republic since 1955, without the words. (Many SSR’s have used an wordless, or instrumental, version of the SSR hymn very soon after achieving independence.) Replacing the work outright with a new song was considered, and suggestions such as “Магутны Божа!” (“Mahutny Bozha”) [O God Almighty] by Natalla Arsiennieva (which was recommended by the parliamentary education and culture committee in 1995, but was not acted upon) and “Маладая Беларусь” “Maładaja Biełaruś” [Young Belarus] by Janka Kupala (but was never set to music) were put forward, but no change was made.
On July 2, 2002, President Lukashenko set a decree that the Belarus hymn will have lyrics, and ones were adopted in a contest. The lyrics by the contest winner, Uladzimir Karyzna, were similar to the Belarusian SSR anthem lyrics and were based on Klimkovich’s original lyrics for the soviet republic’s anthem.
Protestors against Lukashenko’s government use a variety of songs, including the aforementioned hymn “Mahutny Bozha” and the anthem of the last Belarusian state, “Vajacki mars”. National Anthem: Belarus - Мы, беларусы](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TORZAO5fYCg/mqdefault.jpg)







![National Anthem: South Africa - Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika
Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika & Die Stem van Suid-Afrika - hybrid national anthem of the Republic of South Africa (iRiphabliki yomZantsi Afrika [Xhosa], iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika [Zulu], Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa [Sotho], Republiek van Suid-Afrika [Afrikaans]
Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika written by Enoch Sontonga - 1897
Die Stem van Suid-Afrika written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven - 1918
Adopted - 1997 National Anthem: South Africa - Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UlWcsjVC3n8/mqdefault.jpg)