Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🐍🐸
Jul 16, 2021 3:35 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for July 16th 2021...
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Five facts about Ireland you might not know:
You can read more Irish facts here
- There are NO FEMALE Leprechauns! It might sound strange, but throughout Irish history, all images and stories are of male Leprechauns.
- There are no snakes in Ireland. Legend has that St Patrick himself drove them all out of Ireland. But did you know that there are also no native snakes in Hawaii? Maybe St Patrick popped over thereafter he was finished in Ireland, haha.
- Did you know? Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Oscar for best-written screenplay Nobel Prize for literature and he also had a rotating office that he could turn to face the sun in the winter and give himself more shade in the summer.
- Until 1985, you needed a prescription to buy condoms in Ireland.
- There are only two countries in the world that have a public holiday on St Patrick’s day. Ireland(including Northern Ireland) and Montserrat(a small island in the Caribbean)
Bonus: I posted this article a few years ago of the black Irish of Montserrat. Watch the first video here, and you are going to be blown away at their strong Irish accent!
☘️ 25 Uniquely Irish Life Hacks – Flat 7up, Sudocrem, St Anthony
My mother often passed down many Irish life hacks to me.
So I was curious what other people’s Irish life hacks would be.
I posted this post on Facebook, and …
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☘️ Ecce Puer, by James Joyce 1882-1941 – A Top Irish Poem
This week’s top Irish poem is short but sad.
The death of James Joyce’s father and the birth of his grandson sparked James Joyce’s return to poetry.
The …
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☘️ 5 Best Paddy And Murphy Irish Jokes
It has been a while since I put together a new list of Paddy and Murphy jokes.
This is a great selection that I handpicked.
Remember, they are just jokes …
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☘️ 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: “The Workmans Friend” – By Flann O’Brien(A Pint Of Plain)
A pint of plain is a beer, and if there were ever a poem that poetically put a beer as essential, it would be this one.
This poem comes in …
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☘️ Celtic Tree Of Life(Crann Bethadh) – Meaning, History And Symbol
The Celtic tree of life(in Irish Crann Bethadh) plays an intricate part in Irish heritage and is among one of the most popular Celtic symbols.
The Celtic tree of life and its …
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This week top Irish poem:
Death Of A Naturalist By Seamus Heaney
So what is the poem death of a naturalist all about?
Good question; well, it is another poem where Heaney is looking back on his life. In this case, it is the death of his childhood. Or moving on and the loss of childhood innocence. You can watch Seamus Heaney reading the poem himself here.
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart
Of the townland; green and heavy headed
Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods.
Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun.
Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles
Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell.
There were dragonflies, spotted butterflies,
But best of all was the warm thick slobber
Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water
In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring
I would fill jampotfuls of the jellied
Specks to range on window sills at home,
On shelves at school, and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst, into nimble
Swimming tadpoles. Miss Walls would tell us how
The daddy frog was called a bullfrog
And how he croaked and how the mammy frog
Laid hundreds of little eggs and this was
Frogspawn. You could tell the weather by frogs too
For they were yellow in the sun and brown
In rain.
Then one hot day when fields were rank
With cowdung in the grass the angry frogs
Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through hedges
To a coarse croaking that I had not heard
Before. The air was thick with a bass chorus.
Right down the dam gross bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:
The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat
Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.
I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings
Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew
That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.
This week's joke: The Wallet
Skinny little Irish man goes into an elevator, looks up and sees this HUGE black guy standing next to him.
The big guy sees the little Irish man staring at him; he looks down and says: ‘7 feet tall, 350 pounds, 20-inch penis, 3 pounds of testicles, Turner Brown.’
The little white Irish man faints and falls to the floor.
The big guy kneels down and brings him to, shaking him... The big guy says, ‘What’s wrong with you?’
In a weak voice, the little guy says, ‘What EXACTLY did you say to me?’
The big dude says, ‘I saw your curious look and figured I’d just give you the answers to the questions everyone always asks me……
I’m 7 feet tall, weigh 350 pounds, have a 20-inch penis, my testicles weigh 3 pounds each, and my name is Turner Brown.’
The little white Irish man says: ‘Turner Brown?! …. Sweet Jesus, I thought you said, ‘Turn around!!!!
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