Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🚴
Apr 29, 2022 1:01 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for April 29th 2022...
- Did you know? Dame Alice Kyteler was the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. Dame Alice Kytler, was born in Kilkenny in 1280. All four of her husbands died, and she was accused of poisoning them. Today you can dine at Kytler’s Inn in Kilkenny, which operates in her old home.
- Until the 1970s, Irish law prohibited pubs from opening on March 17 as a mark of respect for this religious day.
- Irish sayings: Let’s be drinking! Beimid ag ól! (Pronounced Beh-mid egg ole)
- He who’s not strong has to be able to run well
- It is not a secret after three people know it.
- Is minic a chealg briathra míne cailín críonna. Many a prudent girl has led astray with sweet words.
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This week's posts:
🚴 The Last Of The Cycling Postmen, Ireland 1975
It has been a while since I put together an article on some old Irish videos.
This week from CR’s video vaults, it is a clip from 1975.He was …
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🗒️ To My Darling Daughter Betty By Tom Kettle
To My Darling Daughter Betty is one of those short Irish poems that immediately impact you when you read it.
Tom Kettle wrote “To My Daughter Betty” in 1914 at …
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😂 Jokes and Accents of Ireland – Niall Tóibín
I found this great clip from Niall Tóibín.
A fellow Cork man passed away on November 13th 2019. He was a fantastic Irish comedian and actor.
The clip is 9 …
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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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This week's Irish jokes: A long one that I found. Simple but funny.
One day a woman who owned a pet duck awoke to find her beloved animal lying still on the floor. Deeply concerned, she rushed him to the local veterinarian, who was known to be a grumpy and contrary man.
The vet asked her to put her duck upon the examination table and prodded the waterfowl a few times with a biro. Nothing happened. Turning to the woman, he announced,
“Madam, your duck is dead. That’s gonna be 20 euros.”
Well, she became very upset upon hearing this and cried, “Surely it can’t be true! Isn’t there something else you can try – he just can’t be dead! Can I have a second opinion?”
At that, the vet gave a sharp whistle, and a black labrador retriever bounded into the room.
The dog approached the table, sniffed the duck a few times and then retreated backwards, to the corner where he lay down and put his paws over his head.
“Now, do you believe me?” the vet said to her again, “Your duck is dead.”
“What was that?!” she cried, “You call that a proper examination? I demand you give him a proper examination!”
The vet then made a “whshhh! Whshhhh!” sound, and a cat entered the room. He leapt onto the table with the duck and carefully walked all around it, peering at it intently from all angles. Then he leapt to the floor, retreated next to the labrador and lay down, also putting its paws over its head.
“Well!” said the vet, “I think we can safely conclude that your duck is, indeed, dead.”
“You’re insane,” replied the woman. “I’m taking my duck and going to another veterinarian. Now, how much do I owe you again?”
“One hundred and forty euros,” replied the vet. The woman was shocked.
“Just a minute ago, you said it was just twenty euros!” she cried.
“Yes,” replied the vet, “but since then, we’ve had a cat scan and a lab report.”
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
To My Darling Daughter Betty By Tom Kettle
To My Darling Daughter Betty is one of those short Irish poems that immediately impact you when you read it. Tom Kettle wrote “To My Daughter Betty” in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom.
He was sent out to fight the war and didn’t know if he would ever see his wife or daughter again. Over 200,000 Irishmen fought across the world, and 49,400 died. This poem was written just days before his death after being killed in battle. The incredible poem To My Daughter Betty comes in at number 73 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
To My Daughter Betty By Tom Kettle
They are dated ‘In the field, before Guillemont, Somme, Sept. 4, 1916’.
In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown
To beauty proud as was your Mother’s prime.
In that desired, delayed, incredible time,
You’ll ask why I abandoned you, my own,
And the dear heart that was your baby throne,
To die with death. And oh! they’ll give you rhyme
And reason: some will call the thing sublime,
And some decry it in a knowing tone.
So here, while the mad guns curse overhead,
And tired men sigh with mud for couch and floor,
Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead,
Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor,
But for a dream, born in a herdsmen shed,
And for the secret Scripture of the poor.
I hope you have enjoyed this incredible poem by Tom Kettle. For more incredible Irish poems, pop on over to my top 100 list here.
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