Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🍺
Oct 08, 2021 6:11 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, October 8th 2021...
- One hundred sixty days until St Patrick's day! Let's hope we can all celebrate around the world then.
- I know I said I would have the Leprechaun post this week, but it looks like it will be coming out in next weeks weekly dose.
- This week I have added two Irish jokes to your weekly dose; I hope you enjoy them.
- Here is a throwback from a post in 2018 these Irish hikers climbed Kilimanjaro recently and celebrated by singing Rattlin’ Bog with some locals. Enjoy the video here.
This week's posts:
☘️ The Meeting Of The Waters, By Thomas Moore – Melody And Video
This week I picked number 65 from the top 100 Irish poems list.
It is a beautiful and warm poem about friendship and Nature by Thomas Moore.
While this is …
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☘️ The Strongest Irish Accent You'll Ever Hear, Seriously
When I first saw this video on Youtube, I immediately thought, will this be the strongest Irish accent I've ever heard?
To my delight, it indeed was.
This video is …
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☘️ 5 Best Paddy And Murphy Irish Jokes
It has been a while since I put together a new list of Paddy and Murphy jokes.
This is a great selection that I handpicked.
Remember, they are just jokes …
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Meeting Of The Waters, By Thomas Moore – Melody And Video
This week I picked number 65 from the top 100 Irish poems list. It is a beautiful and warm poem about friendship and nature by Thomas Moore.
While this is a poem on the text, it is written as a famous Irish Melody. The poem was written as text but transformed into one of the most famous and touching Irish songs.
At the Meeting of the Waters, the Avonmore and beg rivers come together to form the Avoca River in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. You can see more pictures of this incredible spot on the Visit Wicklow website here.
I have shared the poem below but found this excellent video showing the exact spot where Thomas Moore would have created this melody.
He explains a bit of the backstory and does a beautiful job singing it. It is sung by Noel O'Grady. You can watch the video on the blog post here as I cannot embed it on this email.
The Meeting Of The Waters
by Thomas Moore
There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet
As the vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet,
Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Yet it was not that Nature had shed o'er the scene
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green
'Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill
Oh! no, it was something more exquisite still.
Oh! no, it was something more exquisite still
'Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom were near
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear
And who felt how the best charms of Nature improve
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
Sweet Vale of Avoca! how calm I could rest,
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
This week's Irish joke:
The Irish fisherman
It was raining hard and a big puddle had formed in front of an Irish pub.
An old man stood beside the puddle holding a stick with a string on end and jiggled it up and down in the water.
A curious gentleman asked what he was doing.
'Fishing,' replied the old man.
'Poor old fool' thought the gentleman, so he invited the old man to have a drink in the pub.
Feeling he should start some conversation while they were sipping their whisky, the gentleman asked, 'And how many have you caught?'
'You're the eighth.'
An Irish Lumberjack:
A large Canadian lumber company advertised that they were looking for a good Lumberjack.
The very next day, a skinny Irishman showed up at the company with his axe and knocked on the Foreman's door.
The Foreman took one look at the small Irishman and told him to leave. "Just give me a chance to show you what I can do," said the Irishman.
"Okay, see that giant redwood over there?" said the Foreman. "Take your axe and go cut it down."
The Irishman headed for the tree, and in five minutes he was back knocking on the Foreman's door.
"I cut the tree down," said the Irishman.
"Holy smokes!" Said the Foreman. "Where did you get the skill to chop down trees like that?"
"In the Sahara Forest," replied the Irishman.
Confused, the Forman asked, "… don't you mean the Sahara Desert?"
"Oh.. Is that what they call it now?"
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