Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️ 👩🏼💻
Jul 02, 2021 2:15 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for July 2nd 2021...
- Today I am mixing things up and sharing five facts about the Irish Around The World Blog that you might not have known.
- I am back with a more creative Youtube video which I must admit still need some work. But you have to start somewhere. You can see the one-liner Irish jokes video here. I even added some narration. Be sure to subscribe.
Five facts about Irish Around The World you might not know☘️:
- Irisharoundtheworld.com was originally Irisharound.com, but I migrated to a much more suitable name Irisharoundtheworld.com in 2016.
- My first Irish joke post ever was titled the "best Irish joke ever" I would say it is up for debate on that, but certainly one of the oldest, haha.
- The blog has had 5'6 million page views since 2016. 50% of the traffic is in the US; the second is the UK at 15%, then Australia at 7%, and Ireland at 6.87%. The rest of the visitors are from 239 countries and territories! So possibly at least one person in every country in the world has read Irisharoundtheworld.com. Amazing.
- I have published 264 blog posts.
- Fun fact about me: I was born in Cork but grew up in Zimbabwe until my parents moved back to Ireland with me when I was 15, just before Zimbabwe fell apart(mainly because of Robert Mugabe).
☘️ 30+ Incredibly Funny Irish Pictures
Looking for some funny Irish pictures?
You have come to the right place.
I posted this post over five years ago, so I thought it was about time I updated …
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There is no shortage of Irish jokes on my site.
But this week, I found a lovely clip from Mike Dunafon.
He is a great storyteller, and I love the …
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This week top Irish poem:
This week's poem comes in at number 63 on the top 100 Irish poems list. It was written by Louis MacNeice(1907-1963)
Brilliant use of imagery, and he really transports you to what Dublin must have been like at the time of writing.
Dublin
by Louis MacNeice
Grey brick upon brick,
Declamatory bronze
On sombre pedestals –
O’Connell, Grattan, Moore –
And the brewery tugs and the swans
On the balustraded stream
And the bare bones of a fanlight
Over a hungry door
And the air soft on the cheek
And porter running from the taps
With a head of yellow cream
And Nelson on his pillar
Watching his world collapse.
This never was my town,
I was not born or bred
Nor schooled here and she will not
Have me alive or dead
But yet she holds my mind
With her seedy elegance,
With her gentle veils of rain
And all her ghosts that walk
And all that hide behind
Her Georgian facades –
The catcalls and the pain,
The glamour of her squalor,
The bravado of her talk.
The lights jig in the river
With a concertina movement
And the sun comes up in the morning
Like barley-sugar on the water
And the mist on the Wicklow hills
Is close, as close
As the peasantry were to the landlord,
As the Irish to the Anglo-Irish,
As the killer is close one moment
To the man he kills,
Or as the moment itself
Is close to the next moment.
She is not an Irish town
And she is not English,
Historic with guns and vermin
And the cold renown
Of a fragment of Church latin,
Of an oratorical phrase.
But oh the days are soft,
Soft enough to forget
The lesson better learnt,
The bullet on the wet
Streets, the crooked deal,
The steel behind the laugh,
The Four Courts burnt.
Fort of the Dane,
Garrison of the Saxon,
Augustan capital
Of a Gaelic nation,
Appropriating all
The alien brought,
You give me time for thought
And by a juggler’s trick
You poise the toppling hour –
O greyness run to flower,
Grey stone, grey water,
And brick upon grey brick.
This weeks joke: Best Irish Joke: Irish jokes “The Italian Lawyer”:
An Italian lawyer and an Irishman are sitting next to each other on a long flight.
The lawyer is thinking that Irishmen are so dumb that he could put something over on them easily…So the lawyer asks if the Irishman would like to play a fun game.
The Irishman is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks.
The Italian lawyer persists and says that the game is a lot of fun.
I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me only €5.00 then you ask me one, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you €500.00, he says.
This catches the Irishman’s attention, and to keep the lawyer quiet; he agrees to play the game.
The lawyer asks the first question. ‘What’s the distance from The Earth to the Moon?’
The Irishman doesn’t say a word, reaches in his pocket, pulls out a five euro note and hands it to the lawyer.
Now, it’s the Irishman’s turn.
He asks the lawyer, ‘What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?’
The lawyer uses his laptop and searches all references he could find on Google.
He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail.
After over an hour of searching, he finally gives up.
He wakes up the Irishman and hands him €500.00.
The Irishman pockets the €500.00 and goes right back to sleep.
The lawyer is going nuts, not knowing the answer.
He wakes the Irishman up and asks, ‘Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?’
The Irishman reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5.00 and goes back to sleep.
Don’t mess with the Irish!
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About the founder of Irish Around The World:
Okay, some of you might be wondering.
Just who runs this Irish Around The World website??
Or maybe you don't care, haha.
My name is Stephen Palmer from Co. Cork and I have been involved in many Irish related projects over the years.
While it may seem this website is run by a whole team of highly skilled Irishmen, it is just run by myself.
So I want to thank you again for taking the time to subscribe and being a part of the community.
So how did you start a website about Irish people around the world Stephen?
Where it all began:
I created a website in 2013 to help Irish people who are moving to Australia and recently a new group to help Irish ex-pats who are returning to Ireland.
I have always enjoyed reading about Irish heritage and how connected Irish people are around the world.
But I felt that the websites out there did not connect the people to the information. Instead, they just published daily articles regardless if people cared about them or not.
So I decided to change it and create my own Facebook community called Irish Around The World.
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