Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️⏰
Mar 04, 2022 1:31 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, March 4th 2022...
- Irish Wisdom - Beauty doesn’t boil the kettle.
- Did you know? - Chicago dyes its river green every single year since 1962! Don’t worry; the dye is environmentally friendly; the river is dyed with 40 pounds of environmentally friendly dye, which keeps the river green for four to five hours.
Latest updates & news:
- My thoughts are still with the people of Ukraine 🙏🙏🙏
- I updated this email every Friday with how many days until St Patrick's day. Until I thought, why not just make a countdown and put it on the website!? And so I did. You can see how many days until St Patrick's day 2022 here. It is ~14 days until St Patrick's day 2022! ☘️
- I now have a lovely St Patrick's Day category at the start of my menu. This will make finding all my St Patrick's day posts easier. Alternatively, you can click here to see my current St Patrick's day posts. I will be updating plenty of them next week. This week I updated 20 St Patrick's day facts.
- Have a brilliant weekend!
This week's posts:
☘️ 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.
The post 20 Surprising And Interesting St Patrick’s Day Facts ☘️ appeared first on Irish Around The World.
📜 The Ballad Of Father Gilligan – Poem by William Butler Yeats📜
I am back once again with another top Irish poem.
I have been enjoying learning about these Irish poems every week.
The post The Ballad Of Father Gilligan – Poem by William Butler Yeats appeared first on Irish Around The World.
⏰ How Many Day’s Until St Patrick’s Day 2022?⏰
Since I have been updating my weekly dose of Irish email newsletter every Friday with how many days remained until St Patrick’s day, I decided why not create a nice …
The post How Many Days Until St Patrick’s Day 2022? Appeared first on Irish Around The World.
💃 Groom ‘Irish Dances’ Showing You How The Irish Celebrate A Wedding💃
There is something magical about an Irish wedding.
Over the years, I have seen plenty of Irish videos from weddings.
The post Groom ‘Irish Dances’ Showing You How The Irish Celebrate A Wedding appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🐕 Irish Wolfhound – 15 Things You Need To Know About This Gentle Giant🐕
One of the most searched dog terms on the internet the Irish Wolfhound.
This remarkable dog often claims the award for the biggest dogs in the world!
Today I am …
The post Irish Wolfhound – 15 Things You Need To Know About This Gentle Giant appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes:
Garda pulls over a speeding car:
A garda pulls over a speeding car. He says, "I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir." The driver says, "Are you sure? I had it on cruise control at 60; perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating." Not looking up from her knitting, the wife says: "Now don't be silly dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control." As the garda writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, "Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?" The wife smiles demurely and says, "You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did." As the garda makes out the second ticket for the illegal use of a radar detector unit*, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, "Woman, didn't I tell you to keep your mouth shut!" The garda frowns and says, "And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an on the spot 60 euro fine. "The driver says, "Well, you see, sir, I had it on but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket." The wife says, "Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on.
You never wear your seat belt when you're driving." And as the garda is writing out the third ticket, the driver turns to his wife and barks, "WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??" The garda looks over at the woman and asks, "Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?" Smiling sweetly, she replies. Only when he's been drinking, sir."
*While it is legal to own a radar detector in the Republic of Ireland, it is illegal to use it.
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A cheesy one:
The man from the window company called Miss O'Leary on the telephone. "Miss O'Leary, he says, you haven't made a single payment on your new windows. Is there something the matter?" Bristling with annoyance, Miss O'Leary replies. "I may be up in years, but I still have my wits about me. Wasn't your man after telling me those windows would pay for themselves in a year?
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Why you should learn another language:
A European tourist is lost and stops in an Irish village to ask for directions. He sees two old men sitting outside the pub enjoying their Guinness. “Parlez-vous Francais, he asks. The old men look at each other and shake their heads. “Sprechen sie Deutsch?” Again, the old men shake their heads. Beginning to get a bit irritated, the tourist asks, “Habla Espanol?” The men once again shake their heads. Totally exasperated by now, the tourist asks, “Parla Italiano?” The men once again look at each other and then shake their heads in puzzlement. The tourist is so disgusted that he drives off. One old man says to the other, “You know, Sean, perhaps we should learn another language.” “Ah, get on with yeh; look at him, he knows four, and it didn’t do him a bit of good.”
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Ballad Of Father Gilligan – Poem by William Butler Yeats
This week it is number 67 from the top 100 Irish poems. Once again, W.B Yeats makes an appearance on the list. I always enjoy it when I see his name. You can always count on intense imagery taking you to the place he is talking about in the poem.
Before I explain what this poem is about, I would encourage you to read it first. I must admit I got shivers on my first read. This week I put the poem first and my analysis of “The Ballad Of Father Gilligan” after.
The Ballad Of Father Gilligan
The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day
For half his flock were in their beds
Or under green sods lay.
Once, while he nodded in a chair
At the moth-hour of the eve
Another poor man sent for him,
And he began to grieve.
‘I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace,
For people die and die;
And after cried he, ‘God forgive!
My body spake not I!’
He knelt, and leaning on the chair
He prayed and fell asleep;
And the moth-hour went from the fields,
And stars began to peep.
They slowly into millions grew,
And leaves shook in the wind
And God covered the world with shade
And whispered to mankind.
Upon the time of sparrow chirp
When the moths came once more,
The old priest Peter Gilligan
Stood upright on the floor.
‘Mavrone, mavrone! The man has died
While I slept in the chair.’
He roused his horse out of its sleep
And rode with little care.
He rode now as he never rode,
By rocky lane and fen;
The sick man’s wife opened the door,
‘Father! you come again!’
‘And is the poor man dead?’ he cried
‘He died an hour ago.’
The old priest Peter Gilligan
In grief swayed to and fro.
‘When you were gone, he turned and died,
As merry as a bird.’
The old priest Peter Gilligan
He knelt him at that word.
‘He Who hath made the night of stars
For souls who tire and bleed,
Sent one of this great angels down,
To help me in my need.
‘He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.’
What is the poem “The Ballad Of Father Gilligan” by William Butler Yeats about?
Sometimes I read these poems and don’t feel much emotion, but Yeats always brings it out. In short, this poem is about life and death, duties and responsibilities and how God has a plan for all of us. This is one of the few poems of Yeats that has religious intonations in it. Now don’t worry, I am not turning the blog into a religious one but death is something we all share, either through experience or inevitability.
W.B Yeats’s poem was published in the 1890s, and I noticed that in 1892 3,742 Irish people died of the flu. I am not sure if this has any relation to the poem.
Peter Gabriel, in this poem, is a priest who is dealing with people dying day after day, and you can tell that it is taking its toll on him. On one such day of tiredness, while he was asleep on a chair, another man sent for him. But Father Gabriel can’t take it anymore.
He rides out with his horse to escape everything, falling asleep only to wake the next day and feel that he has failed his duties. Rushing to the poor man’s house Gabriel shouts out ‘Mavrone! Mavrone!’ this is an Irish cry of grief.
But when he asks the wife exclaims that he died in peace and “As merry as a bird.’ He says that God has made the stars at night to comfort souls. God might have sent one of His angels to help him.
The poem shows that we are all equal and important no matter where we come from. A powerful poem for sure!
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