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''Tiocfaidh ár lá'' ((:ˈtʲʊki aːɾˠ ˈl̪ˠaː)) is an Irish language phrase which translates as "our day will come", referring to a potential future united Ireland. ==Origins== The English phrase "our day will come" has been used in various contexts. "Our Day Will Come", a pop song about love, was a 1963 hit for Ruby & the Romantics. In the context of Irish politics, in James Joyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', the nationalist Michael Davin (based on George Clancy) says Irish freedom fighters "died for their ideals, Stevie. Our day will come yet, believe me."〔 〕 The Irish phrase ''tiocfaidh ár lá'' is attributed to Provisional IRA prisoner Bobby Sands,〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 who uses it in several writings smuggled out of the Maze Prison.〔 〕 It is the last sentence of the diary he kept of the 1981 hunger strike in which he died.〔 〕 Many republicans learned Irish in prison, (a phenomenon known as "Jailtacht", a pun on Gaeltacht) and conversed regularly with each other through Irish, both for cultural reasons and to keep secrets from the wardens. The Irish language revival movement has often overlapped with Irish nationalism, particularly in Northern Ireland.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 The upsurge in republican consciousness in the wake of the hunger strikes also increased awareness of the Irish language in republican areas.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiocfaidh ár lá」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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