Welcoming signs in the town of Tipperary, Ireland, humorously declare "You've come a long way" in reference to the song.

Judge and Williams began a long-term writing partnership that resulted in 32 music hall songs published by Bert Feldman.

In January 1912, he was performing at the Grand Theatre in Stalybridge, and accepted a 5-shilling bet that he could compose and sing a new song by the next night.

The song was originally written and performed as a sentimental ballad, to be enjoyed by Irish expatriates living in London.

All the streets were paved with gold So, everyone was gay, Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square, Till Paddy got excited, and he shouted to them there:

"If I make mistakes in spelling, Molly, dear," said he, "Remember, it's the pen that's bad, Don't lay the blame on me!"

Molly wrote a neat reply To Irish Paddy-O, Saying "Mike Maloney Wants to marry me, and so Leave the Strand and Piccadilly Or you'll be to blame, For love has fairly drove me silly: Hoping you're the same!

[This quote needs a citation] Feldman persuaded Florrie Forde to perform the song in 1913, but she disliked it and dropped it from her act.

However, as soldiers lost their optimism for a quick end to the war they came to abhor the sentimental song and jeered down attempts to start it.

[16] That civilians continued to hold it to be the soldiers' anthem illustrated a gap in understanding and alienated the fighting men.

[19] In the United States, there were popular versions by Billy Murray,[20] the American Quartet, Prince's Orchestra, and Albert Farrington.

Commentators considered that the song's appeal revealed characteristically British qualities of being cheerful in the face of hardship.

It is also the second part (the other two being "Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire" and "Mademoiselle from Armentières") of the regimental march of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

It was sung by the crew of U-96 in Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film Das Boot (the arrangement was performed by the Red Army Choir).

Morale is boosted in the submarine when the German crew sings the song as they begin patrolling in the North Atlantic Ocean.

On a different occasion, Snoopy walks along and begins to sing the song, only to meet a sign that reads, "Tipperary: One Block."

In a Sunday strip wherein Snoopy, in his World War I fantasy state, walks into Marcie's home, thinking it a French café, and falls asleep after drinking all her root beer, she rousts him awake by loudly singing the song.

[23] In 1942, as the Japanese hell ship Lisbon Maru was sinking, Royal Artillery POWs trapped in the vessel are reported to have sung the song.