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Jul 09, 2022 12:33 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for July 9th 2022...
Great news Ireland made history by beating New Zealand in rugby on their home ground for the first time in history with a 23-13 victory in Dunedin.
We came out here wanting to make history and it's an incredible feeling knowing we've done that. ~ Tadhg Beirne
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🗒️ The Planter’s Daughter, Austin Clarke – Irish Around The World
Welcome back to yet another incredible Irish poem.
This week is the Irish poem “The Planter’s Daughter” by Austin Clarke.
The poem comes in at 26 on the top 100 …
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🗒️ Irish Video – The Biggest Ever Street Performance Of The Iconic “Galway Girl.”
I love when people reach out to me and share a video.
This one surprised me as I had somehow missed it once again.
The video has had …
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There is no shortage of Irish jokes on my site.
But this week I found a lovely clip from Mike Dunafon.
He is a great storyteller and I love the …
The post An Irish Drinking Joke… appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes
An Irishman went for an interview with one of the significant blue-chip computer companies.
When the interview was over, the interviewer told him that all applicants had to complete a test. The interviewer took a piece of paper and drew six vertical lines in pairs of two on the form and placed it in front of the Irishman.
“Could you please show me a clever way to make this into nine?”
After thinking for a while, the Irishman took the pencil, drew a canopy of leaves on top of the three pairs of lines, and handed the paper back to the interviewer.
The interviewer looked at the drawings and said: “But that is not nine!”
“Oh yes, it is”, said the Irishman with a broad Irish accent, “Tree + Tree + Tree make nine!”
The interviewer returned the paper to the Irishman and asked him to make it 99.
After thinking for a long while, the Irishman scribbled up and down the trunks and handed the paper back to the interviewer.
The interviewer looked at the drawings and said: “But that is not ninety-nine!”
“Oh yes, it is”, said the Irishman, “Dirty tree + dirty tree + dirty tree make ninety-nine.”
The interviewer was now a bit cheesed off, so he decided to do the Irishman once and for all. Therefore, he handed the paper back to the Irishman and asked him to make it 100.
After thinking for a considerably longer time, the Irishman suddenly grabbed the pencil, drew a little blop on the bottom right-hand side of each tree, and handed the paper back to the interviewer.
The interviewer looked at the drawings and said: “But that is not 100!”
“Oh yes, it most certainly is”, said the Irishman with a much broader Irish accent,
“Dirty tree and a turd + dirty tree and turd + dirty tree and a turd, make a 100
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Planter’s Daughter, Austin Clarke
Welcome back to yet another incredible Irish poem. This week is the Irish poem “The Planter’s Daughter” by Austin Clarke. The poem comes in at 26 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
So what is the poem “The Planter’s Daughter” all about?
A “Planter” is someone who would buy land from the government(a land grabber) at a low price and then employ local people to work on it. Typically they were very wealthy and prominent people. They wouldn’t associate with the lower class, but the poem talks about the Planter’s daughter and uses incredible imagery of how normal and friendly she is.
The English and Scottish planters would have arrived in Ireland during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The poem appeared in the Irish Bord na Móna ad around the 2000s.
In the poem, the Planter’s daughter is awarded the highest possible accolade, “O she was the Sunday in every week”. Here Clarke compares her to one day of rest that the tenantry enjoyed in the week, the single day in which the tenantry is reserved for worship. Therefore, indirectly, she is put on a pedestal with the object of that worship, i.e. God.
I hope you enjoy this wonderful Irish poem. Be sure to comment your thoughts below.
The Planter’s Daughter
When night stirred at sea
And the fire brought a crowd in,
They say that her beauty
Was music in mouth
And few in the candlelight
Thought her too proud,
For the house of the planter
Is known by the trees.
Men that had seen her
Drank deep and were silent,
The women were speaking
Wherever she went –
As a bell that is rung
Or a wonder told shyly,
And O she was the Sunday
In every week.
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