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May 20, 2022 12:45 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for May 20th 2022...
Did you know? You may be familiar with W.B Yeats, but did you know that his brother Jack Butler Yeats won the first-ever Olympic medal for Ireland in Paris in 1924 for painting.
- Irish wisdom: Don't be breaking your shin on a stool that's not in your way.
Latest updates:
- Amazing how fast time goes when you are enjoying yourself! I just arrived on holiday last week, and now it is my last day. I hope you have a lovely weekend.
- As I am still on holidays I barely had a moment to publish any new posts. However I will have a lot more next week. This week I published the lovely poem by Seamus Heaney called Digging. You can read it here(or below on this email).
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This week's posts:
🗒️ Irish Poem: Digging By Seamus Heaney
Once again, we see the great Seamus Heaney in the top 100 Irish poems list.
And it is no wonder.
This poem comes in at number 18 on the list …
The post Irish Poem: Digging By Seamus Heaney appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🗒️ Irish Wolfhound – 15 Things You Need To Know About This Gentle Giant
One of the most searched dog term on the internet, the Irish Wolfhound.
This remarkable dog often claims the award for the biggest dogs in the world!
Today I am …
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🗒️ Celtic Tree Of Life(Crann Bethadh) – Meaning, History And Symbol
The Celtic tree of life(in Irish Crann Bethadh) plays an intricate part in Irish heritage and is among one of the most popular Celtic symbols.
The Celtic tree of life and its …
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🗒️ Meet The Dancing Irish Parrot – “Now that is an Irish parrot!”
I originally posted this famous Irish dancing parrot back in 2016 and it was viewed over 13 million times!
So I felt it was only appropriate to share it with …
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This week's Irish jokes:
One of my favourites! The Italian lawyer
An Italian lawyer and an Irishman are sitting next to each other on a long flight.
The lawyer is thinking that Irishmen are so dumb that he could put something over on them easily…So the lawyer asks if the Irishman would like to play a fun game.The Irishman is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks.
The Italian lawyer persists and says that the game is a lot of fun.
I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me only €5.00 then you ask me one, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you €500.00, he says.
This catches the Irishman’s attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.
The lawyer asks the first question. ‘What’s the distance from The Earth to the Moon?’
The Irishman doesn’t say a word, reaches in his pocket pulls out a five euro note and hands it to the lawyer.
Now, it’s the Irishman’s turn.
He asks the lawyer, ‘What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?’
The lawyer uses his laptop and searches all references he could find on Google.
He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail.
After over an hour of searching, he finally gives up.
He wakes up the Irishman and hands him €500.00.
The Irishman pockets the €500.00 and goes right back to sleep.
The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer.
He wakes the Irishman up and asks, ‘Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?’
The Irishman reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5.00 and goes back to sleep.
Don’t mess with the Irish! 😂
😂😂😂
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Irish Poem: Digging By Seamus Heaney
Once again, we see the great Seamus Heaney in the top 100 Irish poems list. And it is no wonder. This poem comes in at number 18 on the list of the top poems.
I also found a great video of Heaney reading the poem a few years before he passed away. You can find it under the poem. Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, died aged 74.
If you didn’t know, when Heaney refers to his father digging “turf”, he’s not talking about grass. Turf is the colloquial name for peat which was the principal fuel in many rural Irish homes burnt on an open fire.
Who was Seamus Heaney?
Born on a farm in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney received a scholarship and left his family at age 12. A widely-read and accessible poet, Heaney’s subject matter often remains with his roots—rural life in Ireland. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and was formerly named the prestigious Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.
Enjoy this lovely and touching Irish poem
Digging By Seamus Heaney
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down
Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.
By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.
My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.
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