"The Boys in Green" is a song by Michael Carwood a journalist with The Irish Press.[1] The song was written for Ireland's 1988 European Championship.
Credited to the "Republic of Ireland Soccer Squad", it spent four weeks at #1 in the Irish charts in June / July 1988, prior to the tournament the Irish Soccer team and management performed the song with Gay Byrne, on The Late Late Show.[2]
The song was reworked by the Dublin City Ramblers on their album Home and away,[3] for the Italy 90, World Cup, with the word "Italy" use instead of Germany,[4] and the lines .. we can celebrate, Ireland, Ireland in Euro '88 , was replaced with We'll say Ireland Ireland we're on our way to Rome, Ireland Ireland to bring the world cup home.
