The first march out of the year for the band of the Fighting Irish happened on Thursday. The fight song returned to Notre ...

The Band of the Fighting Irish celebrates its legacy of being the oldest college band in continuous existence in the United ...

Siblings the Rev. Michael Shea and his brother John Shea wrote the music and lyrics, respectively, to the fight song in 1908. The song was first performed at Notre Dame on Easter Sunday 1909 in ...

Notre Dame's fight song is one of the most recognizable in the country, gaining fame due in large part to the success of their football program throughout the 20th century.

The original lyrics to the fight song were written when Notre Dame was a men's only college; the school admitted women for the first time in 1972. Women's sports on campus followed in 1976 ...

Father Shea, a 1905 Notre Dame alumnus, wrote the music, and John, who earned Notre Dame degrees in 1906 and 1908, wrote the words. The song was copyrighted in 1908 and a piano version with the ...

The fight song, called “Notre Dame Victory March,” previously included the lyrics “While her loyal sons are marching / Onward to victory.” In the new version, the line becomes “While her loyal sons ...

Notre Dame’s fight song does hit on more notes than Michigan’s, and Larry Dwyer, an ND music professor and the assistant band director, has some fun with that fact.

That was the second national championship won by Notre Dame's women's basketball team, and the women's soccer team has three national titles to its credit in 1995, 2004 and 2010.

“I’m delighted and now that I think about it, I wonder why it took 50 years since women have been admitted to Notre Dame to realize that you could change the lyrics of the song and still keep ...