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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for March 11th, 2021.

The day many of you have been waiting for a long time is not far away! ST PATRICK'S DAY!

I will have a special weekly dose coming to you on Wednesday with all things St Patrick's day. 

Instead of the funny video this week, I put this list of 20 of the very best St Patrick's day memes. Some are very funny. Read it here. 

I am also finally appearing higher on Google. If you do a Google search now for "Irish sayings", you will see Irish Around The World there in the top 3. Give it a search now. 

I also put this post up of over 40 cheesy St Patrick's day jokes. They are mostly one-liners and are definitely funnier after a few pints of Guinness. 

Looking for a good laugh? See all my previous funny videos here.

Irish Wisdom

1. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
2. Grandchildren are gifts of God. It is God’s way of compensating us for growing old ~ Irish Sayings.
3. A kind word never broke anyone’s mouth.
4. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
5. May the roof above you never fall in, and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
6. A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.

Read 95 more Irish sayings here.

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☘️ Going Home to Mayo, by Paul Durcan

Going home to Mayo, a lovely poem about Paul Durcan travelling with his father as a child.

I loved this poem; there’s something about the journeying that draws you in …

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Funny Irish Joke:   Irish jokes St Patrick's day short ones. 

1. Mom, I met an Irish boy on St. Patrick’s Day. Oh, really? No, O’Reilly!
2. What do you get when two leprechauns have a conversation? A lot of small talk
3. What do you call a leprechaun’s vacation home on St Patrick’s day? A lepre-condo
4. What’s long and green and only shows up once a year? The St. Patrick’s Day parade
5. What did one Irish ghost say to the other? Top O’ the mooooaning to ya

This week's Irish poem: Going Home To Mayo

Going home to Mayo a lovely poem about Paul Durcan travelling with his father as a child.

I loved this poem; there’s something about the journeying that draws you in and opens up thought.

Paul Durcan talks about a trip to Co. Mayo with his father to his grandmother’s house. I feel in this poem he really transports you on that journey that he took. His use of imagery brings you right there. I hope you enjoy this brilliant Irish poem. 

Leaving behind us the alien, foreign city of Dublin

My father drove through the night in an old Ford Anglia,

His five-year-old son in the seat beside him,

The rexine seat of red leatherette,

And a yellow moon peered in through the windscreen.

‘Daddy, Daddy,’ I cried, ‘Pass out the moon,’

But no matter how hard he drove he could not pass out the moon.

Each town we passed through was another milestone

And their names were magic passwords into eternity:

Kilcock, Kinnegad, Strokestown, Elphin,

Tarmonbarry, Tulsk, Ballaghaderreen, Ballavarry;

Now we were in Mayo and the next stop was Turlough,

The village of Turlough in the heartland of Mayo,

And my father’s mother’s house, all oil-lamps and women,

And my bedroom over the public bar below,

And in the morning cattle-cries and cock-crows:

Life’s seemingly seamless garment and gorgeously rent

By their screeches and bellowings. And in the evenings

I walked with my father in the high grass down by the river

Talking with him – an unheard of thing in the city

But home was not home and the moon could be no more outflanked

Than the daylight nightmare of Dublin city:

Back down along the canal we chugged into the city

And each lock-gate tolled our mutual doom;

And railings and palings and asphalt and traffic-lights,

And blocks after blocks of so-called ‘new’ tenements –

Thousands of crosses of lonelinesses planted

In the narrowing grave of the life of the father;

In the wide, wide cemetery of the boy’s childhood.

If you enjoyed this Irish poem, be sure to pop over to my list of top 100 Irish poems here. 

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