[1][2] It was described as having been "sung on the dedication of a chapel" in County Londonderry.
[5] St Columba was a traditional Irish folk melody that was put to words by Charles Coffin.
It was then translated into English by John Chandler, with the chorus 'All glory to the Father be'.
In the eighteenth century the hymn Sol praeceps rapitur was translated by the prolific Edward Caswall in seven verses.
The music was set by Victorian H. S. Irons, who died in 1905.