Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️ 🎥
Dec 10, 2021 6:31 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, December 10th 2021...
Welcome new subscribers! Since we are only 16 days until Christmas I will be including an Irish Christmas blessing and an Irish Christmas fact every week until Christmas.
*Irish Christmas blessing* - May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and the road downhill all the way to your door!
*Irish Christmas Fact* - Ancient Celts believed that mistletoe had tremendous healing powers. Christians saw it as such a strong symbol of paganism, in fact, that they banned it until the so-called “revival of Christmas" in the Victorian era.
It is 16 days until Christmas and 98 days until St Patrick's day.
- For my Irish history clip this week I found some great footage from Cork in 1902. It is remastered in colour. Really funny to see how many people wore hats and top hats back then. Watch the clip here.
- I had over 300K visits this week to the site which is incredible to see. As a result, many of you are new to the email list. So a BIG Fáilte(Irish for welcome) to you all!
- I was looking back at some older articles and I had a great laugh at these Irish lads at Ireland's highest pub. Watch the video here.
This week's posts:
☘️ ️ Irish Poem – The Blackbird Of Derrycairn, by Austin Clarke
Another top Irish poem!
This week it is number 46 from the poet Austin Clarke.
Who was Austin Clarke?
Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistn Cléirigh) was a famous Irish poet of …
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☘️ Watch – 20 Minute Colour Footage Of Cork, Ireland From 1902
As part of my Irish history section each week I have been diving into the Irish archives to find old footage of Ireland or old interviews.
Basically, any footage related …
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☘️ 10 Lovely Irish Christmas Blessings For A Merry Christmas
Christmas 2022 is only a few days away and I want to share some lovely Irish Christmas blessings with you.
The festive time where we ideally meet family and celebrate …
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☘️ Five Irish Food Inventions That Changed The World – Part 1
For such a tiny nation, we certainly have had quite a significant impact around the world.
Previously I shared over 100+ Irish facts, and many of you were amazed to …
The post Five Irish Food Inventions That Changed The World – Part 1 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's joke😂: Cheesy Irish One-Liners. Warning they are very cheesy haha.
Paddy told Murphy that his wife was driving him to drink.
Murphy considers him to be very lucky. His wife makes him walk.
What do you call a big Irish spider?
A Paddy long legs.
What’s Irish and stays out all night?
Paddy O’furniture.
What do you call a big Irish spider?
A Paddy long legs.
What do you call an Irishman covered in boils? – A leper-chaun.
What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control a wife?
A Murder Suspect.
Why can’t you borrow money from a leprechaun?
Cos they’re always a little short.
A Texan rancher comes to Ireland and meets a Kerry farmer.
The Texan says : “Takes me a whole goddam day to drive from one side of my ranch to the other.”
The Kerry farmer says:”Ah sure, I know, sir. We have tractors like that over here too.”
Paddy says to Mary if you were stranded on a desert island who would you like most to be with you?”
“My uncle Mick” replies Paddy.“What’s so special about him?” asks Mary.“He’s got a boat,” says Paddy
The barman says to Paddy “Your glass is empty, fancy another one?”
Lookin’ puzzled Paddy says “Why know would i be needed two empty feckin glasses?
Paddy went to the Doc’s today and said: “do you treat alcoholics.”
The Dr replied, “of course we do”………Paddy said “great get your coat on, I’m feckin skint –
A priest is driving back to Dublin when he gets pulled over for speeding.
The Garda approaches the window and sees an empty wine bottle in the passenger’s seat.
The priest rolls down the window and a strong smell of wine wafts out.
“Have you been drinking, Father?” asks the Garda.
“Just water,” replied the priest.
“I can smell wine, Father,” said the Garda.
The priest looks from the bottle to the heavens. “Good Lord, he’s done it again!”
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Blackbird Of Derrycairn, by Austin Clarke
Another top Irish poem! This week it is number 46 from the poet Austin Clarke.
Who was Austin Clarke?
Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistn Cléirigh) was a famous Irish poet of the age after W. B. Yeats. He was born at 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, on May 9, 1896, and died on March 19, 1974.
He attended University College Dublin and worked as a journalist in England for 15 years before returning to Dublin in 1937.
The poem is about the Catholic church’s control of Ireland’s Government. More precisely, it is a criticism of a priest-ridden Ireland where the Catholic Church dominated the morality of Government, resulting in strict censorship laws leading to the banning of works by prominent Irish writers such as Joyce and Clarke himself.
The Blackbird Of Derrycairn by Austin Clarke
Stop, stop and listen for the bough top
Is whistling and the sun is brighter
Than God’s own shadow in the cup now!
Forget the hour-bell. Mournful matins
Will sound, Patric, as well at nightfall.
Faintly through mist of broken water
Fionn heard my melody in Norway.
He found the forest track, he brought back
This beak to gild the branch and tell, there,
Why men must welcome in the daylight.
He loved the breeze that warns the black grouse,
The shouts of gillies in the morning
When packs are counted and the swans cloud
Loch Erne, but more than all those voices
My throat rejoicing from the hawthorn.
In little cells behind a cashel,
Patric, no handbell gives a glad sound.
But knowledge is found among the branches.
Listen! That song that shakes my feathers
Will thong the leather of your satchels.
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