Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️ 💍
Jun 25, 2021 3:18 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for June 25th 2021...
- Last two weeks, I noticed fewer people received my weekly dose of Irish. I had marked it for sending to active subscribers only by accident. So if you did miss it, I do apologize. I will send it out to everyone moving forward(still, 80% of you should have received it).
- Thank you to those who subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am now at 1.04K subscribers! Woo. I am using a new video editor, so I will have better quality videos coming out in the coming weeks.
- Not much to report this week, except I am starting a blogging tips YouTube channel; if you would like to learn how to blog, reply and let me know. I will send you the channel once it is ready. 😊
Anyway's that is enough talk about YouTube! How about new Irish facts that I have dug up for you?!
Five New Irish facts you might not know☘️:
- At its closest point, Northern Ireland is only 13 miles across the sea from the Scottish coast. You can stand in Antrim on a clear day, look across the water, and see houses in Scotland!
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America, wore a green tie for photographs when Ireland’s ambassador to the US, Thomas Kiernan, turned up at the White House with a bowl of shamrock on 17 March 1963.
- A shiny Claddagh ring was spotted on the finger of Shirley Eaton as famous Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 film Goldfinger. The Claddagh ring became more popular after the appearance in the film, which also starred Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore. See other celebrities that have worn the Claddagh ring here.
- There are more mobile phones than actual people living in Ireland! Source: Independent
- This last fact surprised me! The first divorce in Ireland actually took place on 17 January 1997. 23 years after the bill came into effect, Ireland has the lowest divorce rates in Europe and the fourth-lowest in the world. Source: Irish Post
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This week top Irish poem: The Mother by Padraic Pearse
This weeks top Irish poem comes in at number 25 and is a sorrowful poem.
But although sad a truly timeless poem. The back story is that on May 3rd 1916, Pádraig Pearse (1879-1916) was executed for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916 along with his brother, Willie.
This poem was in the final letter that he sent to his mother before being executed. Pearse’s love for his mother also resonates in the words he chose to share in his last and final letter to her.
An emotional one for sure! 😢
I have also included the final letter that Padraic sent to his mother underneath the poem.
The Mother
I do not grudge them; Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing.
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord, thou art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow — And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.
The letter that was attached to the poem:
“Kilmainham Prison,
May 3rd, 1916.
My Dearest Mother,
I have been hoping up to now it would be possible to see you again, but it does not seem possible. Good-bye dear, dear, mother. Through you I say good-bye to Wow Wow, M.B., Willie, Miss Byrne,. Michael, cousin Maggie and everyone at St. Enda’s. I hope and believe Willie and the St. Enda boys will be all safe.
I have written two papers about financial affairs and one about my books which I want you to get. With them are a few poems which I want added to the poems in MS in my bookcase. You asked me to write a little poem which would seem to be said by you about me.
I have written it, and a copy is in Arbour Hill Barracks with other papers and Father Aloysius is taking care of another copy of it.
I have just received Holy Communion. I am happy, except for the great grief of parting from you. This is the death I should have asked for if God had given me the choice of all deaths – to die a soldier’s death for Ireland and for freedom. We have done right. People will say hard things of us now, but later on they will praise us. Do not grieve for all this but think of it as a sacrifice which God has asked of me and of you.
Good-bye again, dear mother. May God bless you for your great love for me and for your great faith, and may He remember all you have so bravely suffered. I hope soon to see papa, and in a little while we shall all be together again. I have not words to tell you of my love for you and how my heart yearns to you all. I will call to you in my heart at the last moment.
Your son Pat.”
This weeks joke: Three Little Pigs went out to dinner one night.
Okay, not an Irish joke, but I had a great chuckle at it!
Three Little Pigs went out to dinner one night.
The waiter comes and takes their drink order.
“I would like a Sprite,” said the first little piggy.
“I would like a Coke,” said the second little piggy.
“I want water, lots and lots of water,” said the third little piggy.
The drinks are brought out, and the waiter takes their orders for dinner.
“I want a nice big steak,” said the first piggy.
“I would like the salad plate,” said the second piggy.
“I want water, lots and lots of water,” said the third little piggy.
The meals were brought out, and a while later, the waiter approached the table and asked if the piggies would like any dessert.
“I want a banana split,” said the first piggy.
“I want a root beer float,” said the second piggy.
“I want water, lots and lots of water,” exclaimed the third little piggy.
“Pardon me for asking,” said the waiter, “but why have you only ordered water?”
You’re gonna hate me for this…
Hold on to your seat…
The third piggy says—
“Well, somebody has to go ‘Wee, wee, wee, all the way home.’”
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