In the summer of 1937, probably motivated by the enactment of the Constitution of Ireland and its inclusion of Northern Ireland within the "national territory", Kearney wrote an extra verse "in answer to a request that the Irish of the Six North-Eastern Counties [i.e. Northern Ireland] could register a protest against the British-planned Partition of Ulster".[163] It was published in The Irish Press in 1938.[164] As of 1998[update], no recorded version included the extra verse,[163] which runs:[163][n 10]