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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for April 22nd 2022...

Did you know?

• The song “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” was written by two Americans, George Graff and Chauncey Olcott, in 1912. But no records state that they ever visited Ireland. 

• Irish proverb: Mura gcuirfidh tú san earrach ní bhainfidh tú san fhómhar. Translation: If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn.

Latest updates:

• It was great to be back in Cork last week! It takes leaving the country sometimes to appreciate how nice Irish people are in Ireland!!! So friendly.
• With all my travel and, albeit drinking, I did not have much time to publish some new posts. However, following weeks will be packed with recent articles.
• I did, of course, do a poem that was number 87 on the top 100 Irish poems list.

This week's posts:

☘️ Postscript Poem By Seamus Heaney Including Video

I never get tired of seeing Seamus Heaney in the top 100 Irish poems list.

This one comes in at number 87. I think next time I will have to …

The post Postscript Poem By Seamus Heaney, Including Video appeared first on Irish Around The World.

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☘️ Celtic Woman Sing An Incredible Cover Of “Danny Boy” For St Patrick’s Day

I hope you have an incredible St Patrick’s day wherever you are in the world!

Before I pressed play on this incredible song, I popped into the YouTube comments and …

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☘️ Why The Shamrock Is A Symbol of St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland ☘️

Just like the Irish Harp, the Shamrock has appeared throughout Irish history.

 confusion the national symbol of Ireland is the Harp, not the Shamrock.

 The Shamrock is the national flower of …

The post Why The Shamrock Is A Symbol of St.

Patrick’s Day and Ireland ☘️ appeared first on Irish Around The World.

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This week's Irish jokes: Some oldies, haha.

A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink. “Why, of course,” comes the reply.

The first man then asks: “Where are you from?”

“I'm from Ireland,” replies the second man.

The first man responds: “You don't say I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland.”

“Of Course,” replies the second man.

The first man then asks: “Where in Ireland are you from?”

“Dublin,” comes the reply.

“I can't believe it,” says the first man.

“I'm from Dublin too! Let's have another drink in Dublin.”

“Of course,” replies the second man.

Curiosity again strikes, and the first man asks: “What school did you go to?”

“Saint Mary's,” replies the second man.

“I graduated in '62.”

“This is unbelievable!” the first man says.

“I went to Saint Mary's, and I graduated in '62, too!”

About that time, one of the regulars comes and sits down at the bar. “What's been going on?” he asks the bartender.

“Nothing much,” replies the bartender. “The O'Malley twins are drunk again….”

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Two Irish women walking through the forest one day hear a voice coming from near a log."Help me." They lifted the log and, underneath, found a frog. "Help me," said the frog ", I am an investment banker turned into a frog by an evil curse. I need to be kissed by a woman, and I will turn back into an investment banker." One of the women grabbed the frog and stuffed it into her handbag. Aghast, her friend said, "Did you not hear the frog? He needs to be returned to being an investment banker." "Listen", her friend said." these days, a talking frog is worth a lot more than an investment banker."

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So what is this week's top Irish poem?

I never get tired of seeing Seamus Heaney in the top 100 Irish poems list. This one comes in at number 87. I think next time I will have to write about his other poem Digging, which is one of my favourite of his.

I also found a video of Heaney reading the poem in 2013. You can watch him reading it under the poem. The poem will make you want to take a trip to Clare in September or October. I was there a few years ago, and I can confirm how amazing it is from his descriptions. Of course, he puts the words in a much better way than just "amazing". 

Enjoy this fantastic Irish poem by Seamus Heaney. 

Postscript Poem By Seamus Heaney

And some time make the time to drive out west

Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,

In September or October, when the wind

And the light are working off each other

So that the ocean on one side is wild

With foam and glitter, and inland among stones

The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit

By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,

Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,

Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads

Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.

Useless to think you’ll park and capture it

More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,

A hurry through which known and strange things pass

As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways

And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

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