Your Weekly Dose Of Irish 😎☘️
Mar 26, 2021 4:41 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for March 26th, 2021.
I hope you all had a great St Patrick's day last week!
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Irish Wisdom for your weekend
- A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns.
- You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty!
- Never scald your lips with another man’s porridge.
- There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Read 95 more Irish sayings here.
Latest articles on Irish Around The World:
Top 10 Most Valuable Old Irish Coins From 1930 To 1985
Today I break down the top 10 most valuable old Irish coins.
Yesterday I shared a post I published on the 1985 20p that fetched €20k at auction!
The website Ireland coins was kind enough to allow me to share this information with you. They have a bunch more information on each coin on their site.
These old Irish coins range from $750.00 to $9200!
🗒️ The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats – Top Irish Poem
This weeks top Irish poem is “The Second Coming” it is one of Yeats most famous poems.
It comes in at number 29 on my list of top 100 Irish …
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🗒️ Irish Dancers With 25 Million TikTok Likes Celebrate St Patrick’s Day
I first wrote about these guys in September 2020!
At the time they had just hit 10 million views on TikTok.
Now the lads have over 2million followers on Tiktok …
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🗒️ Top 10 Irish Blessings And Wishes For St Patrick’s Day 2021
Many of you loved my post of the best Irish sayings, well today I have my top 10 Irish blessings and wishes for St Patrick’s day.
Rather than sharing hundreds …
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Funny Irish Joke: Irish jokes an old classic:
The bank of Ireland
An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Ireland one morning with a purse full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on talking to the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.
After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president’s office.
The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit. She placed her purse on his desk and replied, ‘€165,000’.
The president was curious and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The elderly woman replied that she made bets.
The president was surprised and asked, ‘What kind of bets?’
The elderly woman replied, ‘Well, I bet you €10,000 that your testicles are square.’
The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was impossible to win a bet like that.
The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and said,
‘Would you like to take my bet?’
‘Certainly’, replied the president. ‘I bet you €10,000 that my testicles are not square.’
‘Done’, the elderly woman answered. ‘But given the amount of money involved, if you don’t mind I would like to come back at 10 ‘ clock tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness.’
‘No problem’, said the president of the Bank confidently.
That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them this way and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive that no one could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there was no way he could lose the bet.
The next morning at exactly 10 o’clock the elderly woman arrived at the president’s office with her lawyer and acknowledged the €10,000 bet made the day before that the president’s testicles were square
The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made the day before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so that she and her lawyer could see clearly.
The president was happy to oblige.
The elderly woman came closer so she could see better and asked the president if she could touch them. ‘Of course, said the president. ‘Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure.’
The elderly woman did so with a little smile. Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall.
He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she replied, ‘Oh, it’s probably because I bet him €100,000 that around 10 o’clock this morning I would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Ireland’
This week's Irish poem: The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats
This weeks top Irish poem is “The Second Coming” it is one of Yeats’s most famous poems. It comes in at number 29 on my list of top 100 Irish poems.
The Second Coming BY William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again, but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
If you enjoyed this Irish poem, be sure to pop over to my list of top 100 Irish poems here.
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