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Apr 02, 2021 5:01 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for April 2nd 2021.
I wish you all a fabulous Easter weekend!
Some cheesy Easter jokes:
- What do you call the Easter Bunny the Monday after Easter? Eggs-hausted.
- Where did the Easter Bunny go for a new tail? To a retail store.
- What kind of jewellery do rabbits wear? 18 carrot gold.
- What is the end of Easter? The letter R.
- Knock, knock! Who’s there? Sherwood. Sherwood who? Sherwood like to eat this Easter egg right now!
- Did you hear the one about the house infested with Easter eggs? It needed an eggs-terminator!
- Who is Easter Bunny’s favourite movie actor? Rabbit De Niro!
Read more cheesy Easter jokes here.
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Ah sure Easter is here once again and I put the biggest list of the best Easter jokes just for you.
Since I have such a large selection of Irish …
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🗒️ 10 Things That Insult Irish People THE MOST
Ah yes, we Irish people are gentle and loving.
But there is no doubt these ten things are a sure-fire way to insult Irish people the most.
Earlier today I …
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🗒️ Top 10 Most Valuable Old Irish Coins From 1930 To 1985
Did you know that you could have some very valuable old Irish coins in your house?
Today I break down the top 10 most valuable old Irish coins.
Yesterday I …
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🗒️ Listen To An Enchanting “Danny Boy” By Celtic Woman
Before I pressed play on this incredible song I popped into the YouTube comments and the first one that caught my eye was: If you’ve got even one drop of …
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Funny Irish Joke: April Fools Day
Since I was putting this together on April Fool's day I felt it would be best to include the history of April Fool's day.
The History Of April Fool's Day
Did you know that the reason April 1st is named Fool’s Day is after Steve April?
It is a truly remarkable story and one I had no idea about until today!
He was born on April 1st, 1779. As a child, he was considered a genius, learned to read and write at a young age; wrote opera librettos, music and poetry
He graduated with an economics degree from Yale when he was 19, but had no sense in business. So every year he created a new business on April 1st and is known to create over 50 businesses ranging from furniture stores to totally abstract stores. But they all eventually went to bankruptcy, Steve April just kept borrowing and borrowing and eventually filed for bankruptcy on the 1st of April 1803(ironically)
Because of all of his misfortunes, he was then known as the king of fools.
He became desolated and a loner, but indulged in his real passion: reading.
He spent countless hours reading fake stories, just like you are doing now
Happy April’s fools day!
This week's Irish poem: Easter 1916 By W.B. Yeats
Easter 1916
W.B. Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman’s days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone’s in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse –
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is 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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