Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🌹
Aug 12, 2022 9:18 am
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, August 12th 2022...
Irish wisdom: May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Latest updates:
- I hope you enjoyed 'today in Irish history' last week. It seems a good addition, and I will include it weekly. Of course, it will only be for the Friday or Saturday that the weekly dose is sent out. I may have it as a section on my blog as well.
- It is 216 days until St Patrick's day 2022! You can see my countdown clock here.
- I have increased the size of the text on my blog. Who needs to look at boring small text websites? So I have increased the size of the text to make it much easier to read. You can read my post on Celtic Symbols here and see the difference in the text.
- It would also appear some of you were not getting my emails! I chatted with my email provider, and they have fixed the problem.
This week's posts:
🌹 Irish Poem ‘Tis The Last Rose Of Summer, By Thomas Moore
It is another week and another famous Irish poem!
I hope you have been enjoying my weekly Irish poems.
This week it is a poem, a song and a ballad …
The post-Irish Poem ‘Tis The Last Rose Of Summer, By Thomas Moore, appeared first on Irish Around The World.
📹 Ireland’s First Travel Vlog Circa 1934, Rare Early Footage From Rural Ireland
Today I am bringing you a rare piece of Irish history.
It was known as a travelogue. Rare early footage from rural Ireland and possibly the only extant footage of the …
The past Ireland's First Travel Vlog Circa 1934, Rare Early Footage From Rural Ireland appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👻 ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Trailer: Featuring A Reunited Colin Farrell And Brendan Gleeson
I was delighted to see the new trailer featuring Colin Farrel and Brendan Gleeson titled ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.
The trailer came out yesterday, and I have to say that …
The post ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Trailer: Featuring A Reunited Colin Farrell And Brendan Gleeson appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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(NEW) Today in Irish history, August 5th:
August 12
1646 - Archbishop Giovanni Rinuccini, papal nuncio to the Irish Confederate Catholics, condemns their adherence to Ormond's peace terms for failing to recognize Catholicism fully
1652 - 'Act for the Settling of Ireland' allows for the transplantation to Clare or Connacht of proprietors whose land is confiscated by Cromwell to meet promises to adventurers and soldiers; also known as the "To Hell or Connacht" Act
1796 - Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin receives its first prisoners
1804 - Birth of James Whiteside, orator and Lord Chief Justice, in Delgany, Co. Wicklow
1821 - George IV begins his visit to Ireland; he is received enthusiastically by O'Connell and others
1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, commits suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife
1870 - Sir Hubert Gough, soldier and participant in the 'Curragh mutiny' of 1914, is born in Gurteen, Co. Waterford
1898 - Irish Local Government Act sets up elective county and district councils
1899 - First issue of James Connolly's Workers Republic
1914 - Death of John Holland, from Liscannor, Co. Clare, designer of the first submarine
1920 - Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, is arrested by the British; he immediately goes on hunger strike
1922 - Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, dies of a cerebral haemorrhage
1969 - British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland after riots in Derry and Belfast
1998 - Freak twister ravages Martinstown in Co. Antrim; no injuries or fatalities are reported
1999 - Memorial service is held for the victims of the Omagh bomb attack
2001 - Playing to a capacity crowd at the Manchester Evening News Arena, U2 kicks off their European tour with a plea for peace in Northern Ireland
2001 - Loyalist protesters block the main road in north Belfast to prevent the republican Wolf Tone flute band from joining a major march commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1981 IRA hunger strikes.
This week's Irish joke
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the car's floor.
He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”
“Just water,” says the priest.
The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”
The priest looks at the bottle and says, “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer, By Thomas Moore
It is another week and another famous Irish poem! I hope you have been enjoying my weekly Irish poems. This week it is a poem, a song and a ballad all in one. It is at number 93 on the top 100 Irish poems list. I personally think it should be a lot higher!
I found an incredible cover of this poem/song by Charlotte Church, sung in Jerusalem with a man from Israel playing the traditional uilleann pipe. I honestly got chills listening to it. You can watch the video here. I would suggest reading the poem before listening to the song. She does an incredible job!
'TIS the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh!I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Love's shining circle,
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
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