Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️👨🎤
Sep 09, 2022 1:04 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Saturday, September 9th 2022...
Irish proverb: May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.
Latest updates:
- Welcome new subscribers! I hope you have a fantastic weekend wherever you are in the world.
- I might have to start adding raw eggs to my Guinness drinking 😆
This week's posts:
🥚 79-Year-Old Woman’s ‘Miracle Cure’ Guinness And Raw Eggs
I love stories like this!
Maggie Ives was moved into a nursing home earlier this year for end-of-life care.
She was suffering from chronic kidney and cardiovascular disease.
The post-79-Year-Old Woman’s ‘Miracle Cure’ Guinness And Raw Eggs appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👨🎤 Liam Clancy Sings A Sensational Waltzing Matilda Cover
This Waltzing Matilda cover has to be one of my favourite covers I have ever heard.
I was browsing YouTube as I usually do on Fridays when I came across …
The post Liam Clancy Sings A Sensational Waltzing Matilda Cover appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👰 She Moved Through the Fair, by Padraic Colum – Full Poem
A wonderful Irish poem and popular song, “She Moved Through the Fair” by Padraic Colum (1881-1972).
While initially it was written by Colum, it later got taken up by many …
The post She Moved Through the Fair, by Padraic Colum – Full Poem, appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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Today in Irish history, September 9th:
September 9th
- 872 - Earliest verifiable date of a Viking invasion of Ireland in Dunrally
- 1831 - 30,000 pounds is allocated to establish a "national" system of elementary education in Ireland
- 1845 - The arrival of the potato blight in Ireland is reported in the Dublin Evening Post
- 1852 - The last day of the Tenant League Conference in Dublin
- 1893 - House of Lords rejects Second Home Rule Bill
- 1922 - The newly elected Daíl Éireann meets to frame its constitution and elects William T. Cosgrave President of the Executive Committee
- 1963 - Cardinal William Conway becomes Primate of All Ireland
- 1978 - U2 supported The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom in Dublin before a crowd of 2,500 people, their biggest to date. The band is paid 50 pounds
- 2001 - Protestant residents of Ardoyne defy church leaders and politicians by continuing their protest outside north Belfast's Holy Cross primary school
- 2001 - Family, friends and fans pay tribute to actor Joe Lynch during a special commemorative mass at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral in Dublin
- 2001 - Three suspected IRA members - Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan - are transferred from La Modelo federal prison to a high-security jail in Bogota over fears for their safety
- 2002 - Bob Geldof delivers a moving speech at the launch of the world’s first genocide centre in Nottinghamshire
- 2002 - Castletown, Co. Laois, is declared Ireland’s Tidiest Town
- In the liturgical calendar, this is the feast day of St. Kieran, founder of the great monastery at Clonmacnois. He dies on this date in 545.
Irish Joke:
This week I have two Irish jokes; enjoy!
Another long one but too good to resist.
An elderly Irish gentleman goes to his doctor for a physical and checks his bloodwork, heart and lungs; everything looks great! The doctor said he had one more test to perform. He needed the man to go home to collect a sperm sample in this jar to see how his reproductive health was.
The old Irishman says no problem with a smile.
The following day, the man returns, and the doctor greets him. He hands the doctor the empty jar. The doc asked what happened.
The old Irishman begins, "You see, I came home and first tried with my right hand. And then with my left. I tried with both hands, and still nothing... I asked my wife for help. She tried with her right hand, then her left, and then both, but still nothing. Then she tried with her mouth, first teeth in then teeth out... Still nothing.
We decided to call over our neighbour, a lovely young woman who helps us out from time to time. She said she would come over to help. She tries with her right hand, then her left. With both... She tried with her mouth, first teeth in the teeth out, she even stuck it between her knees...."
The doctor cut him off... "YOU ASKED YOUR NEIGHBOR?!"
The old Irishman simply responds, "Why yes, None of us could get the Jar open!!!"
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An Irishman walked into a tavern and took a seat at the bar; the tavern master walked up to the man and asked him, "What can I do for you tonight?" The Irishman looked at the tavern master and said: "In my left pocket, I have a ten-inch pianist; for a mug of your finest brew, I will have him play you a song that would bring a tear to the eyes of the gods." Intriguing, the tavern master poured the man a mug of the finest brew, and true to his word, the main pulled a tiny pianist from his pocket and with a nod, he began to play.
At the song's end and with tears in his eyes, the tavern master asked what else this stranger could do. With a smile, the man replied, "in my right pocket, I have a tiny wizard who will grant you one wish if you give me a whole keg of your finest brew."
Without hesitation, the tavern master rolled a keg of his finest brew out for the stranger who, true to his word, pulled a tiny wizard from his pocket. Eager for his wish, the tavern master turned to the wizard and declared, "Wizard! I want one hundred thousand bucks!" With a twinkle in his eye and a wave of his wand, a bright light filled the tavern. And when the light cleared, the tavern master found that his tavern was filled with one hundred thousand ducks, all quaking away in surprise. Angrily, he turned to the stranger, who was helping himself to the keg and asked what the big deal was.
With a sardonic smile, the Irishman replied, "The wizard is hard of hearing. Do you really think I wished for a ten-inch pianist?"
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
She Moved Through the Fair, by Padraic Colum
A wonderful Irish poem and popular song, “She Moved Through the Fair” by Padraic Colum (1881-1972). While initially it was written by Colum, it later got taken up by many singers, including Celtic Woman and Sinead O’Connor. The poem comes in at number 59 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
It is a beautiful poem about a man waiting to marry his true love. Whether you listen to or read the poem, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful poems ever written. Enjoy this excellent piece of Irish history.
She Moved Through The Fair
My young love said to me,
“My mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you
For your lack of kind.”
And she stepped away from me
And this she did say:
“It will not be long, love,
Till our wedding day.”
As she stepped away from me
And she moved through the Fair
And fondly, I watched her
Move here and move there
And then she turned homeward
With one star awake
Like the swan in the evening
Moves over the lake.
The people were saying,
No two e’er were wed
But one had a sorrow
That never was said
And I smiled as she passed
With her goods and her gear,
And that was the last
That I saw of my dear.
Last night she came to me,
My dead love came in
So softly she came
That her feet made no din
As she laid her hand on me
And this she did say
“It will not be long, love,
Till our wedding day.”
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