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Sep 16, 2022 12:24 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Saturday, September 16th 2022...
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🏊♂️ Son Surprises His Mammy By ‘Swimming’ Home From Australia(2014)
I have recently been sharing many old Irish videos from the ’60s, ’70s and even ’80s.
But today, I wanted to share a video from not so long ago, 2014. …
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👶 20 Traditional And Unique Irish Baby Names For 2023
I recently shared this lovely poem about a newborn baby being fed and thought I would publish a post with 10 Irish baby boy and girl names for 2023.It …
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🍼 Night Feed By Eavan Boland – A Loving Poem For Parents
This week I have picked number 58 from the top 100 Irish poems list.
It is a beautiful Irish poem about a new mother getting up in the middle of …
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🍺 Top 10 Incredible Irish Inventions That Changed The World
Irish people have made some incredible Irish inventions over the years.
For such a tiny nation, we certainly have had quite a significant impact around the world.
Previously I shared …
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Today in Irish history, September 16th:
September 16th
1732 - Birth in Castletown, Co. Clare of Thomas O'Gorman, physician, wine trader and courtier in France; made a chevalier by Louis XV
1798 - Small French force under James Napper Tandy makes a brief landing on Rutland Island, Co. Donegal
1798 - Belfast United Irish leaders arrested
1808 - William Trench, land agent and author, is born near Portarlington, Co. Laois
1830 - Birth in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow of Patrick Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, first Australian cardinal, and church historian
1845 - Death of Thomas Davis, revolutionary, poet, and political theorist
1865 - Fenian newspaper, Irish People, ceases publication
1870 - Birth in Dublin of John Pius Boland, nationalist politician and Ireland's first Olympic gold medalist
1906 - Trevor G. McVeagh, cricket, hockey, squash and tennis player, is born in Athboy, Co. Meath
1925 - Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo
1934 - Singer, guitarist and founder of the Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, was born in Dublin
1941 - Sixteen soldiers are killed in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow while testing mines
1945 - World-renowned Irish tenor, John McCormack, dies in Dublin
1998 - Irish-owned Musgrave Group becomes the biggest food distribution company in the country after signing a historic franchise deal with supermarket chain Roches Stores
1998 - Books of condolences opened in the aftermath of the Omagh tragedy are closed. More than 150,000 people from across Northern Ireland are estimated to have signed the books.
Irish Joke:
This week I have two Irish jokes; enjoy!
A teacher is teaching a class, and she sees that Johnny isn't paying attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting on the fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?" Johnny says, "None." The teacher asks, "Why?" Johnny says, "Because the shot scared them all off." The teacher says, "No, two, but I like how you're thinking." Johnny asks the teacher, "If you see three women walking out of an ice cream parlour, one is licking her ice cream, one is sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is married?" The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream." Johnny says, "No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're thinking!"
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Night Feed By Eavan Boland – A Loving Poem For Parents
This week I have picked number 58 from the top 100 Irish poems list. It is a beautiful Irish poem about a new mother getting up in the middle of the night to feed her baby. This a poem that I am sure all new parents will relate to. What I like about the poem Night Feed is that it doesn’t try to have a hidden meaning; Boland is just expressing in words what that moment is like.
And she does so with fantastic imagery and description. Enjoy.
Night Feed By Eavan Boland
This is dawn.
Believe me
This is your season, little daughter:
The moment daisies open,
The hour mercurial rainwater
Makes a mirror for sparrows.
It's time we drowned our sorrows.
I tiptoe in.
I lift you up
Wriggling
In your rosy, zipped sleeper.
Yes this is the hour
For the early bird and me
When finder is keeper.
I crook the bottle.
How you suckle!
This is the best I can be:
Housewife
To this nursery
Where you hold on,
Dear life.
A silt of milk.
The last suck.
And now your eyes are open
Birth-coloured and offended.
Earth wakes.
You go back to sleep.
The feed is ended.
Worms turn.
Stars go in.
Even the moon is losing face.
Poplars stilt for dawn
And we begin
The long fall from grace.
I tuck you in.
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