Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️😶🌫️
Jul 23, 2022 2:48 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Saturday, July 23rd 2022...
Irish wisdom: May misfortune follow you the rest of your life and never catch up.
Latest updates:
- As things got back on track, I finally got caught with Covid. I am much better now, but it was a rough few days.
- I hope you are having a great Saturday, and I wish you a lovely Sunday!
- This week I didn't include the Irish poem in the email. Mainly because it is over 3000 words, which would make this email way too long, but you can read the entire poem here, or there will be links at the bottom.
This week's posts:
🏡 VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971)
It can be hard to imagine in present-day what life would be like with ten children.
I am sure there are some cases, but they are infrequent.
The post VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🗒️ Incantata, By Paul Muldoon – An Irish Poem About A Friend And Their Strength
This week I decided to pick a poem from the top 100 Irish poems list.
And I picked number 54 by the excellent Paul Muldoon.
The title immediately caught my …
The post Incantata, By Paul Muldoon – An Irish Poem About A Friend And Their Strength appeared first on Irish Around The World.
😆 50 Of The Funniest Irish Jokes Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud
Irish jokes are famous across the world, some good and some bad.
For the past 30 days, I have been sharing an Irish joke every day on my Facebook page.
To …
The 50 Of The Funniest Irish Jokes Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud appeared first on Irish Around The World.
📽️ Watch Michael Flatley’s New Action Movie Trailer That He Wrote, Directed And Stars In
I published this article in September 2021 with Michael Flatley’s greatest moments, and I briefly spoke about his passion project titled “Blackbird”.
At the time, it had been in production …
The post Watch Michael Flatley’s New Action Movie Trailer That He Wrote, Directed And Stars In appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes
Irish Jokes Paddy’s wife is deaf:
Paddy feared his wife Mary wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem.
The doctor told him there was a simple, informal test that paddy could perform to give the doctor a better idea about her hearing loss. Here’s what you do said the doctor; stand about 40 feet away from her and, in a normal conversational speaking tone, see if she hears you.
If not, go to 30 feet away and then 20 feet and so on until you get a response. Later that day, when Paddy gets home from the pub, he sees Mary in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he is in the hallway; he thinks to himself I’m about 40 feet away. Let’s see what happens. In a normal tone, he asks, “Mary, what’s for dinner, my lovely?” No response, so he moves closer 30 feet he says,” Mary what’s for feckin dinner ?”. Still no response.
He moves closer by about 20 feet. “Mary, for Christ’s sake, can ye be telling me what’s for dinner ?” Still nothing, and again at 10 feet, still nothing. So he walks up behind her and says Mary, can you tell me what’s for dinner?
She replied,
FOR F*** SAKE PADDY FOR THE FIFTH TIME, CHICKEN!!!
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
This week I decided to pick a poem from the top 100 Irish poems list. And I picked number 54 by the excellent Paul Muldoon.
The title immediately caught my eye as, typically, Irish poets use Irish-themed names for their poem titles. Such as Mise Éire or Cill Chais.
So when I saw the title “Incantata” I thought to myself, ‘that’s not Irish!’ and indeed it is not. It is Italian, and the word means “enchantment.” But I do prefer the sound of the Italian word. The poem “Incantata” itself is unique and beautiful. While this is a very long poem that has even been turned into a play, it is worth reading.
The poem is written in memory of Mary Farl Powers, his partner who passed away two years earlier. Who is Paul Muldoon? Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
I did say it is a long poem, and Muldoon even performed this as a play in 2019. But it is certainly worth the read. Enjoy this wonderful Irish poem.
As this poem is over 3000 words, I kept it on the blog post. Which you can read here.
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