Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🐎
Mar 11, 2022 11:01 am
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, March 11th 2022...
- Irish Proverb - Don’t become broke by trying to look rich.
- Did you know? - The famous band the Pogues original name was Pogue Mahone. Which translates to Irish Gaelic póg mo thóin, meaning “kiss my arse”.
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This week's posts:
🐎 Pegasus, By Patrick Kavanagh – Irish Poem
A poem about a man trying to sell a horse: comes in at number 91 on the top 100 Irish poems list. But of course, the great Irish poet Patrick …
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😂75 Best And Funniest St Patrick’s Day Jokes
Are you looking for the best St Patrick’s day jokes? Well, you came to the right place.
My name is Stephen, and I put this collection together, including cheesy, long …
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🤭 10 Cheesy Jokes St Patrick’s Day Jokes That Are Bound to Make You Smile
Who doesn’t love St Patrick’s day?
My blog welcomes millions of new visitors every year at this time.
And I want to welcome you by sharing some cheesy St Patrick’s …
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🍺 St Patrick’s Day Music- Irish Drinking Pub Songs Collection 2022
In the build-up to St Patrick’s day, I thought it would be great to find a handy playlist of great Irish music you could have on in the background.
The post-St Patrick’s Day Music- Irish Drinking Pub Songs Collection 2022 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🎥 Top 10 Best Irish Movies For St Patrick’s Day
One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to announce the best Irish movies of all time. I thought about putting my list together of the best Irish …
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🗒️ 20 Surprising And Interesting St Patrick’s Day Facts ☘️
St Patrick’s day is the day we all turn a bit Irish.
The festival and public holiday are shared worldwide from South America to Australia.
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This week's Irish jokes:
A Texas rancher comes to Ireland and meets a Kerry farmer.
The Texan says: "Takes me a whole day to drive from one side of my ranch to the other."
The Kerry farmer says: "Ah sure, I know, sir. We have tractors like that here too."
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Maureen's husband, Patrick, was a typical Irish male chauvinist. Even though they both worked full-time, he never helped around the house. Housework was woman's work! But one evening, Maureen arrived home to find the children bathed, one load of clothes in the washer and another in the dryer, dinner on the stove, and the table set. She was astonished; something's up, she thought.
It turns out that Patrick had read an article that said wives who worked full-time and also had to do all the housework were too tired to make love.
The night went well, and the next day she told her office friends all about it. "We had a great dinner. Patrick even cleaned up. He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put everything away. I enjoyed the evening." "But what about afterwards?" asked her friends. "Oh, that was perfect, too. Patrick was too tired!"
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Sean goes into the pub and asks for three Guinness. He sits there and sips from the first one, then the second, and the third. He does this until finally, all three pints are finished. He pays the bill and leaves. A couple of nights later, he comes back and repeats the ritual. This goes on for a while, and finally, the bartender's curiosity gets the better of him, and he asks why the three Guinness and why drink them all together with the way he does. "Well, " says Sean, "My brother Michael is in the USA, and my other brother Liam is in Australia. We can't meet in the pub and share a Guinness, so we have an agreement that whenever we go have a drink, we order three pints and pretend we're together." The bartender thinks to himself, "What a wonderful idea." A few months go by, and one night Sean comes in, and he orders two Guinness. The bartender is afraid to ask, but Sean seems fine, so finally, the bartender says, "I see you've only ordered two Guinness tonight. Did something happen to one of your brothers?" No, no," says Sean, "They're both fit as a fiddle and healthy as horses!" "So why only the two Guinness?" asks the bartender. "Ah, well now," says Sean, "I've given up Guinness for Lent."
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Pegasus, By Patrick Kavanagh - Irish Poem
A poem about a man trying to sell a horse: comes in at number 91 on the top 100 Irish poems list. But of course, the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh often uses powerful imagery to take you to the exact place or time. Just like in his other poem, a Christmas Childhood.
And of course, an outstanding poet such as Kavanagh would not just write about a horse for sale, would he? No, in fact, in this, Kavanagh is talking about a soul, a soul that gets treated like a horse. With the opening lines
My soul was an old horse
Offered for sale in twenty fairs."
Ireland has long had a fascination with horses, and back at the time of writing, this was even more true. Kavanagh offers his soul for sale to a shopkeeper, the church and the tinkers. And all he wanted was to free the horse(soul).
The end of the poem gave me chills as he released his soul "No more haggling with the world…."
What is a Pegasus?🐎
If you don't know, a Pegasus is a mythical winged divine horse and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology. Typically portrayed as a bright white horse with giant wings.
Not much is left to say except enjoy this powerful Irish poem by Patrick Kavanagh.
Pegasus
My soul was an old horse
Offered for sale in twenty fairs.
I offered him to the Church–the buyers
Were little men who feared his unusual airs.
One said: ‘Let him remain unbid
In the wind and rain and hunger
Of sin and we will get him–
With the winkers thrown in–for nothing.’
Then the men of State looked at
What I’d brought for sale.
One minister, wondering if
Another horse-body would fit the tail
That he’d kept for sentiment-
The relic of his own soul–
Said, ‘I will graze him in lieu of his labour.’
I lent him for a week or more
And he came back a hurdle of bones,
Starved, overworked, in despair.
I nursed him on the roadside grass
To shape him for another fair.
I lowered my price. I stood him where
The broken-winded, spavined stand
And crooked shopkeepers said that he
Might do a season on the land–
But not for high-paid work in towns.
He’d do a tinker, possibly.
I begged, ‘O make some offer now,
A soul is a poor man’s tragedy.
He’ll draw your dungiest cart,’ I said,
‘Show you short cuts to Mass,
Teach weather lore, at night collect
Bad debts from poor men’s grass.’
And they would not.
Where the
Tinkers quarrel I went down
With my horse, my soul.
I cried, ‘Who will bid me half a crown?’
From their rowdy bargaining
Not one turned. ‘Soul,’ I prayed,
‘I have hawked you through the world
Of Church and State and meanest trade.
But this evening, halter off,
Never again will it go on.
On the south side of ditches
There is grazing of the sun.
No more haggling with the world….’
As I said these words he grew
Wings upon his back. Now I may ride him
Every land my imagination knew.
A powerful poem once again! What did you think of it?
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