Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🏠
Apr 08, 2022 2:28 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for April 8th 2022...
Did you know?
- Ireland was the last country in the European Union without a postcode system.
- In 1853 Dundalk man named John Coffee built the Dundalk Jail. However, he encountered some financial troubles while building the prison. He ended up going bankrupt and becoming the first inmate in his own prison!
Irish proverb: 🏠Do not take the thatch from your own roof to buy slates for another man’s house.
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- On Monday for Easter, I am flying back to Ireland with my family in Co. Cork! Very excited to be back! Did you know these facts about Cork?
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This week's posts:
☘️ Irish Poem: Father and Son, by F.R. Higgins
This poem is a collection of poems by F.vR Higgins.
This poem comes in at number 89 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
Who Was F.R Higgins?
The post-Irish Poem: Father and Son, by F.R. Higgins, appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Why The Shamrock Is A Symbol of St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland ☘️
Just like the Irish Harp, the Shamrock has appeared throughout Irish history.
The Shamrock is the national flower of …
The post Why The Shamrock Is A Symbol of St.
Patrick’s Day and Ireland ☘️ appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Station Island Poem, by Seamus Heaney – Analysis And Meaning
Another fantastic Irish poem by Seamus Heaney.
And of course, it is a long one!
This poem comes in at number 88 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
The post Station Island Poem, by Seamus Heaney – Analysis And Meaning appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ 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.
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This week's Irish jokes:
In the spirit of Easter:
Sean goes into the pub and asks for three Guinness. He sits there and sips from the first one, then the second, and the third. He does this until finally, all three pints are finished. He pays the bill and leaves. A couple of nights later, he comes back and repeats the ritual. This goes on for a while, and finally, the bartender's curiosity gets the better of him, and he asks why the three Guinness and why drink them all together the way he does. "Well, " says Sean, "My brother Michael is in the USA, and my other brother Liam is in Australia. We can't meet in the pub and share a Guinness, so we have an agreement that whenever we go have a drink, we order three pints and pretend we're together." The bartender thinks to himself, "What a wonderful idea." A few months go by, and one night Sean comes in, and he orders two Guinness. The bartender is afraid to ask, but Sean seems fine, so finally, the bartender says, "I see you've only ordered two Guinness tonight. Did something happen to one of your brothers?" No, no," says Sean, "They're both fit as a fiddle and healthy as horses!"
"So why only the two Guinness?" asks the bartender.
"Ah, well now," says Sean, "I've given up Guinness for Lent." 🥳
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A priest was seated next to an Irishman on a flight home. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Irishman asked for an Irish whiskey. The attendant placed the drink on his tray and then asked the priest if he wanted a drink. He replied in disgust," I'd rather be savagely ravaged by brazen hussies than let alcohol touch my lips."
The Irishman then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, "Me too. I didn't know we had a choice!" 😅
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A lady is having a bad day at the roulette tables. She's down to her last 50 Euros. Exasperated, she exclaims, "What rotten luck I've had today! What in the world should I do now?" A man standing next to her suggests, "I don't know... why don't you play your age?" He walks away. Moments later, his attention is grabbed by a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! He rushes back to the table and pushes his way through the crowd. The lady is lying limp on the floor, with the table operator kneeling over her. The man is stunned. He asks, "What happened? Is she all right?" The operator replies, "I don't know. She put all her money on 29, and 36 came up. Then she just fainted!"
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Father and Son, by F.R. Higgins
This poem is a collection of poems by F.R Higgins. This poem comes in at number 89 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
Who Was F.R Higgins?
Well, it seems that they all hung out together around the time of Yeats. Always interesting just how many incredible pieces of work came from Yeats’s era. Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) was born in County Mayo.
A close friend of Austin Clarke and William Butler Yeats, Higgins was elected a foundation member of the Irish Academy of Letters and, in 1935, became a director of the Abbey Theatre. Well-regarded as a poet, he also edited a series of broadside ballads with Yeats for the Cuala Press.
This volume collects the best of Higgins’s output from his four poetry collections and the literary magazines in which his poems appeared.
This poem is an overwhelming powerful poem about Higgins’s father, who has passed away. A poem that everyone can associate with. The love for a father and son or daughter is powerful. Enjoy this fantastic Irish poem.
FATHER AND SON
by F. R. Higgins
Only last week, walking the hushed fields
Of our most lovely Meath, now thinned by November,
I came to where the road from Laracor leads
To the Boyne river–that seems more lake than river,
Stretched in uneasy light and stript of reeds.
And walking longside an old weir
Of my people’s, where nothing stirs–only the shadowed
Leaden flight of a heron up the lean air–
I went unmanly with grief, knowing how my father,
Happy though captive in years, walked last with me there.
Yes, happy in Meath with me for a day
He walked, taking stock of herds hid in their own breathing;
And naming colts, gusty as wind, once steered by his hand,
Lightnings winked in the eyes that were half shy in greeting
Old friends–the wild blades, when he gallivanted the land.
For that proud, wayward man now my heart breaks–
Breaks for that man whose mind was a secret eyrie,
Whose kind hand was sole signet of his race,
Who curbed me, scorned my green ways, yet increasingly loved me
Till Death drew its grey blind down his face.
And yet I am pleased that even my reckless ways
Are living shades of his rich calms and passions–
Witnesses for him and for those faint namesakes
With whom now he is one, under yew branches,
Yes, one in a graven silence no bird breaks.
What did you think of this poem?
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