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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for June 11th 2021...

• I had my first taste of Proper Twelve Irish whiskey(Conor Mcgregor's) yesterday. I had mixed feedback from people, but I can say after a few too many glasses that it was delicious. Very easy to drink. Now, if only Conor would sponsor all of us with a bottle? 😉
• I had intended to publish more posts this week, but I think the whiskey got the better of me.
• But I do have some great new facts that I dug up.
• Two new videos this week: Irish golf joke and 4 Catholic ladies having coffee.

Five New Irish facts you might not know☘️:

1. New York City hosted the first St. Paddy’s Day parade when a contingent of Irish soldiers, homesick for their native coast, marched through the city in 1762.
2. The 2008 American Community Survey reported more than 414,943 people of Irish ancestry living in NYC.
3. Got an uncle Pat on Staten Island? One in 161 Americans is named Patrick — nearly 2 million times the population of Dublin.
4. Irish has three major dialects - Spoken Irish today has three major dialects: Ulster, Connacht, and Munster. Each dialect differs slightly in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. 
5. January 6 is known in the Irish language as “Nollaig na mBan” – Women’s Christmas. If you are ever in Ireland on this day, be sure to head out for a few drinks. It is a crazy, fun night.

Read More Irish Facts here.

This week's posts:

☘️ Kerryman Telling An Irish Golf Joke From An Irish Pub

Found this gem from a few years back. You can’t beat a good ole Irish joke from an Irishman in a pub. The way he tells it is just excellent. 

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☘️Irish Poem: Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney(Including Video)

 I think so far; this is the first Irish poem that I actually managed to find a video from the author reading the poem himself. I have included the video before the poem. Great to hear Heaney reading the poem. Another fantastic use of imagery. I can almost taste the blackberry. 

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☘️ Cheapest Way To Send Money To Ireland With The Best Rate

This article is for anyone that sends money to Ireland or is planning on sending money to Ireland in the not too distant future.

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☘️ UNCLE JOEY: The 21 Best Matt LeBlanc Memes(Friends Reunion)

It has been one week since the Friend’s reunion, and I have been steadily laughing at Matt LeBlanc memes all week! Although I would have to say it was more…

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☘️ 20 Of My Favourite Irish Proverbs And Sayings From Ireland

This is a collection of my personal favourite words of wisdom from old Irish proverbs.

You may have heard some in passing, and you may have heard some for the …

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This week top Irish poem: Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney

Another week another top Irish poem. The Irish poem Blackberry-Picking comes in at number 47 on the list of top 100 Irish poems. 

I think so far; this is the first Irish poem that I actually managed to find a video from the author reading the poem himself. I have included the video before the poem. Great to hear Heaney reading the poem. Another fantastic use of imagery. I can almost taste the blackberry. 

Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney

Late August, given heavy rain and sun

For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

At first, just one, a glossy purple clot

Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it

Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for

Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger

Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots

Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.

Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills

We trekked and picked until the cans were full,

Until the tinkling bottom had been covered

With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned

Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered

With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.

But when the bath was filled we found a fur,

A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.

The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush

The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.

I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair

That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.

Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.

This weeks joke: Irish golf joke from a Kerryman in an Irish pub

This weeks joke is a video of a Kerryman in an Irish pub telling a funny golf joke.

You can watch the video here as I cannot embed it in this email.

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