Your weekly dose of Irish 🧙♀️☘️
Aug 06, 2021 1:44 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for August 6th 2021...
- I hope you are having a good week!
- I have been thinking for a while about creating a product that you guys would like. So I am creating a 100-page Irish journal with either Irish facts, or Irish sayings in it. It will be available on Amazon, but more on that later.
- Have a fantastic weekend!
Five Irish facts for your Friday
- This old 20p Irish coin fetched up to €9000 at an auction in 2015! Read the reason why it was so valuable here.
- The famous band Pogues original name was Pogue Mahone. Which translates to Irish Gaelic póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse".
- Dame Alice Kyteler was the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in Ireland. Dame Alice Kytler, 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.
- According to some historians, over 40% of all American presidents have had some Irish ancestry.
- The tallest identical twins ever born were the Knipe Brothers from Magherafelt in County Derry, who were 7ft 2in. They were born in 1761.
You can read more Irish facts here.
This week's posts:
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☘️ Five Facts You Might Not Know About Ireland And The Olympics
Well, Tokyo 2020 has certainly been exciting to watch.
Aside from doing some Irish facts this week, I thought it would be better to share some facts about Ireland and …
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☘️ 100+ Incredible Irish Facts About Ireland From Cork To Belfast
Ireland is an amazing country, and I am sure that these Irish facts will surprise you.
They certainly did for me.
I try to update this article weekly and share …
The post 100+ Incredible Irish Facts About Ireland From Cork To Belfast appeared first on Irish Around The World.
There is no shortage of Irish jokes on my site.
But this week I found a lovely clip from Mike Dunafon.
He is a great storyteller and I love the …
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Fool by Padraic Pearse
“The Fool” is one of Padraig Pearse’s most famous poems– arguably even his most famous.
Padraig wrote this poem upon the death of his friend and Irish Republican Brotherhood member Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.
He did not allow anyone to hear the poem until he recited it at his funeral on the 1st of August 1915.
He ended by saying, “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace,” a line still controversially quoted by some groups who do not recognise the Good Friday Agreement.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Fool
Since the wise men have not spoken, I speak that am only a fool;
A fool that hath loved his folly,
Yea, more than the wise men their books or their counting houses or their quiet homes,
Or their fame in men’s mouths;
A fool that in all his days hath done never a prudent thing,
Never hath counted the cost, nor recked if another reaped
The fruit of his mighty sowing, content to scatter the seed;
A fool that is unrepentant, and that soon at the end of all
Shall laugh in his lonely heart as the ripe ears fall to the reaping-hooks
And the poor are filled that were empty,
Tho’ he go hungry.
I have squandered the splendid years that the Lord God gave to my youth
In attempting impossible things, deeming them alone worth the toil.
Was it folly or grace? Not men shall judge me, but God.
I have squandered the splendid years:
Lord, if I had the years I would squander them over again,
Aye, fling them from me!
For this I have heard in my heart, that a man shall scatter, not hoard,
Shall do the deed of to-day, nor take thought of to-morrow’s teen,
Shall not bargain or huxter with God; or was it a jest of Christ’s
And is this my sin before men, to have taken Him at His word?
The lawyers have sat in council, the men with the keen, long faces,
And said, `This man is a fool,’ and others have said, `He blasphemeth;’
And the wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To a dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
O wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true?
What if the dream come true? and if millions unborn shall dwell
In the house that I shaped in my heart, the noble house of my thought?
Lord, I have staked my soul, I have staked the lives of my kin
On the truth of Thy dreadful word. Do not remember my failures,
But remember this my faith
And so I speak.
Yea, ere my hot youth pass, I speak to my people and say:
Ye shall be foolish as I; ye shall scatter, not save;
Ye shall venture your all, lest ye lose what is more than all;
Ye shall call for a miracle, taking Christ at His word.
And for this I will answer, O people, answer here and hereafter,
O people that I have loved, shall we not answer together?
This week's joke: Woman sneezing on a plane
A man and a woman were sitting beside each other in the first-class section of an aeroplane. The woman sneezed, took out a tissue, wiped her nose, then visibly shuddered for ten to fifteen seconds.
The man went back to his reading. A few minutes later, the woman sneezed again, took a tissue, wiped her nose, and then shuddered violently once more.
Assuming that the woman might have a cold, the man was still curious about the shuddering.
A few more minutes passed when the woman sneezed yet again. As before she took a tissue, wiped her nose, her body shaking even more than before.
Unable to restrain his curiosity, the man turned to the woman and said, 'I couldn't help but notice that you've sneezed three times, wiped your nose and then shuddered violently.
Are you OK?' 'I am sorry if I disturbed you, I have a very rare medical condition; whenever I sneeze I have an orgasm.
' The man, more than a bit embarrassed, was still curious. 'I have never heard of that condition before he said. 'Are you taking anything for it?'
The woman nodded. 'Pepper.'
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