Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️👻
Aug 05, 2022 2:27 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, August 5th 2022...
Irish wisdom: However long the day, the evening will come
Latest updates:
- Welcome back! I know technically, it has only been five days until we last spoke, but I feel Friday is the best day to get your weekly dose of Irish.
- I've added a new section titled today in Irish history, which I may or may not include every week. If you don't like it, please reply and let me know.
This week's posts:
👻 ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Trailer: Featuring A Reunited Colin Farrell And Brendan Gleeson
I was delighted to see the new trailer featuring Colin Farrel and Brendan Gleeson titled ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.
The trailer came out yesterday, and I have to say that …
The post ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Trailer: Featuring A Reunited Colin Farrell And Brendan Gleeson appeared first on Irish Around The World.
⛵ Sailing to Byzantium, By W. B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium is a powerful Irish poem.
Another week, another Yeats poem! He features so many times in the top 100 Irish poems list that it is hard not …
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👨👩👧👧 VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971)
It can be hard to imagine in present-day what life would be like with ten children.
I am sure there are some cases, but they are infrequent.
The post VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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(NEW) Today in Irish history, August 5th:
- 1722 - Birth of William Fortescue, politician and sportsman who tried unsuccessfully in the 1760s to introduce a bill 'to preserve partridges and hares and to take away the lives of above half the dogs in the nation.'
- 1888 - Philip Henry Sheridan, the son of Irish immigrants from Cavan, dies in Nonquit, Massachusetts. He became an officer in the Federal cavalry and is infamously credited with the phrase: "The only good Indian is a dead one."
- 1891 - The Land Purchase Act further facilitates tenants' purchase of acreage from former landlords and establishes a board to purchase and redistribute land at a local level in the west
- 1901 - Peter O'Connor sets a long jump record at 24' 11 3/4". He was born in Ashford, Co.Wicklow, but he lived and worked as a solicitor in Waterford City for most of his life. He won his first title in 1899 at the age of 25 years, and his last in
- 1906 - but that was the Olympic title. He was the first IAAF ratified a long jump world record holder, and his remarkable world and Irish long jump record, set in Ballsbridge, Dublin, on this date, lasted for 20 years.
- 1931 - Birth of Billy Bingham, Northern Ireland footballer and manager, in Belfast
- 1934 - Gay Byrne, broadcaster, is born in Dublin
- 1984 - U2 finishes recording "The Unforgettable Fire"
- 1999 - A unique exhibition - "75 Years of Giving" - is officially opened in Dublin by President Mary McAleese. It comprises a collection of treasures from museums and art galleries throughout the country and marks the 75th anniversary of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland (FNCI) foundation.
This week's Irish joke
An Irishman walks into a bar...
He goes up to the bartender and asks him if he likes to gamble.
The bartender says, "Sure, I'll take a bet. What's your action?"
The Irishman offers a $50 bet that he can bite his own eyeball. Thinking it's easy money, the bartender accepts his bet and is shocked when the man removes his glass eye and bites down on it.
Laughing, the man sees that the bartender is upset about losing his money, so he offers him a chance to win it back. "Double or nothin' says I can bite my other eye."
The bartender thinks it over. He knows he was just tricked out of €50, but he also knows that this Irishman can't possibly have two glass eyes, so he pulls another $50 from the register and accepts the man's bet.
The man promptly removes his false teeth and gently closes them around his other eye.
Now the bartender is visibly angry to have been had for €100, and the man's laughter isn't helping. Just before he throws him out of his bar, the man puts his hand up.
"Real sorry about that, pal. I get people with that bit all the time, but you've been a good sport, so I'll give you another chance to win some cash. I've got... €500 that says if you slide a shot glass down the bar top, I can run alongside it and piss into the glass without missing a drop. This is kinda hard for me to do, though, so I think it's fair if you give me two chances at it."
The bartender, eager to win his money back from the man, thinks to himself and realizes just how hard it would be for this man to piss into a shot glass while running at full speed. Especially knowing he only has one eye to line up his shot. After a minute of deliberation, he willingly accepts the bet.
The man drops his pants to his ankles, and when the bartender puts the shot glass down on the counter, he shouts a resounding, "Go!" prompting the bartender to slide it along the bar top.
The man chases after it, holding his d*** at an angle to properly aim it. However, pissing while running at full speed isn't easy, so he only manages to get a couple of drops in the glass by the time it reaches the other end.
Catching his breath, the man reminds the bartender he has a second try and that the first was simply to get his bearings straight. Once again, he shouts, "Go!" giving the bartender his cue to send the shot glass back down the bar.
Once again, the man chases wildly after it, spraying piss all over the bar top, stools, floor, and even hitting some of the bottles of liquor behind the bar. However, not one drop of urine found its way into the shot glass.
Head hanging low, he hands the bartender €500, to which the bartender gleefully accepts, jumping up and down in joy and cheering in victory at the cash he had just made.
Suddenly, a man in the back of the bar slams his fist hard against his table and screams "F**k!" at the top of his lungs.
The bartender mutters aloud, "I wonder what his problem is."
The man replies, "Oh, I just bet that guy €10,000 that I could piss all over your bar, and you'd be so happy about it you jumped up and down with joy."
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Sailing to Byzantium is a powerful Irish poem. Another week, another Yeats poem! He features so many times in the top 100 Irish poems list that it is hard not to feature him. The central theme behind this beautiful poem is man vs eternity and nature. It comes in at number 13 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
I would have to say that of all of Yeats's poems, this one is a powerful poem. And if you, for some reason, don't know who W.B Yeats is, William Butler Yeats was a Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
Written in 1926 and included in Yeats’s most outstanding single collection, 1928’s The Tower. I guess as we know, the older we get, the more we look back on life. This was certainly evident in last week's Irish poem Another September. Yeats really goes into the difficulty of keeping one’s soul alive in a fragile, failing human body. Yeats is leaving Ireland to sail to Byzantium, an ancient Greek city.
I hope you enjoy this once again wonderful Irish poem by W. B Yeats.
Sailing to Byzantium
Unfortunately, I have tried and tried to paste the poem in here but keep getting some strange errors. But do not despair; you can read the poem on my blog here.
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