Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️⏰
Jan 15, 2022 3:18 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, January 14th 2022...Saturday, January 15th 2022
Irish saying - You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Did you know? - Around 45% of the worlds Tic Tac’s are made in Cork. They are manufactured in the Ferrero factory in Cork, Ireland. The factory produces about 36 tic tac's per second. Wow!
- I decided this week to take a week off from posting. Well, I didn't decide; life decided for me, haha. I had a jam-packed week but rest assured, next week I will have some epic posts coming, including...
- Part two of top 5 Irish inventions that changed the world. You can read part one here, which is about all the delicious food you love!
- The top 10 most valuable passports to have in 2022
- A new top Irish poem
- A long updated Celtic Symbols article
- And, of course, an extensive selection of Irish jokes!
And plenty more!
As there were no new posts today I have included some older posts and two Irish jokes that I am sure you will enjoy.
The good news is it is only 61 days until St Patrick's day 2022!
This week's posts:
☘️ Old Irish Videos – The Pint Balancing King Of 1986 In Ireland 🍺
As part of my weekly Irish history videos this week, I found a great clip from 1986, thanks to CR’s video vault on YouTube.
The post-Old Irish Videos – The Pint Balancing King Of 1986 In Ireland 🍺 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Incredible Four-year-old Cork Girl Singing ‘Danny Boy’ Goes Viral
Being from Cork myself, I always enjoy it when someone makes a splash on social media.
Just like the video of Cork girl who played Irish music to these cows.
…
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☘️ Watch – 20 Minute Colour Footage Of Cork, Ireland From 1902
As part of my Irish history section each week, I have been diving into the Irish archives to find old footage of Ireland or old interviews.
The post Watch – 20 Minute Colour Footage Of Cork, Ireland From 1902 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ 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.
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☘️ 5 Brilliant New Irish Jokes That Will Make You Laugh(Mick, Paddy & Murphy)
It has been a while since I posted some new Irish jokes.
I have been updating my main Irish jokes post here.
But I have always been on the lookout …
The post 5 Brilliant New Irish Jokes That Will Make You Laugh(Mick, Paddy & Murphy) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ 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 …
The post Meet The Dancing Irish Parrot – “Now that is an Irish parrot!
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☘️ The Best Of The Irish On The Graham Norton Show
I love watching the Graham Norton show, as I am sure you do too.
There have been many Irish people who appeared on the show over the years.
So when …
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This week's Irish joke
An Irish bodybuilder takes off his shirt, and the blonde woman says:
Wow what a great chest you have!
He says
100 lbs of dynamine babe!
He then takes off his pants, and the blonde says
Wow what massive calves you have!
He says
100 lbs of dynamine babe!
He then removes his underwear, and the blonde goes running, screaming in fear.
He puts on his clothes and chases behind her. Once he eventually caught up to her, he asked why the hell she ran away like that.
The blonde replied:
I was afraid to be around all that dynamite when I saw how short the fuse was!
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Murphy lost his eye in an accident and couldn't afford the price of a glass eye.
So he carved one out of wood. But he was so self-conscious that he never left the house.
Finally, his friend Paddy came over and forced him to go out.
"There's a dance over at the club," he said.
"So what if one of your eyes is made out of wood?"
"All right," said Murphy, "but if anybody makes fun of my eye I'm leaving."
He went to the dance and stood around, trying to build up his courage.
And then he saw a woman standing alone in the corner. She was very attractive, but she had a hunchback.
"She's worse off than me," Murphy thought. "The least I can do is ask her to dance.
He walked across the crowded dance floor and approached the girl.
Would you care to dance? he asked.
Would I?!" she exclaimed.
"That does it," he shouted, "Hunchback! Hunchback!"
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
As there is no new Irish poem this week, I have included last week's poem:
Inniskeen Road, July Evening, by Patrick Kavanagh
This week, I have picked number 30 from the top 100 Irish poems list. It is titled Inniskeen Road, July Evening and is primarily about Irish life in the countryside in the 1930s.
Kavanagh writes this poem(as he does in so many others) with such fantastic imagery. You get the feeling of isolation and his rustic imagination for the Irish countryside.
It seems that there is a big event going on that evening, but Kavanagh was not invited to “Billy Brenand’s barn.” So, as a result, it depicts the isolation and loneliness that he would have felt.
I love his line, “A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king.” Here Kavanagh is saying that he is the king of everything he surveys, but he is the only king of “Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.”
A wonderfully written poem that perfectly encapsulates how he must have felt that July evening.
I like this poem as it reminds me of his other very descriptive poem Spraying the Potatoes.
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
The bicycles go by in twos and threes –
There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,
And there’s the half-talk code of mysteries
And the wink-and-elbow language of delight.
Half-past eight and there is not a spot
Upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown
That might turn out a man or woman, not
A footfall tapping secrecies of stone.
I have what every poet hates in spite
Of all the solemn talk of contemplation.
Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight
Of being king and government and nation.
A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king
Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.
Patrick Kavanagh 1904 – 1967
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