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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, November 5th 2021...

Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. Irish sayings

• I hope you all had a good Halloween! It is now only 50 days until Christmas and 132 days until St Patrick's day 2022!
• This week I am enjoying some holidays in the sunny Algarve in Portugal. So, as a result, I have dug up some of my earlier blog posts that you may not have seen.
• Have a great weekend, and thank you for being a loyal subscriber!

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This week's posts:

☘️ Top Irish Poem Analysis – Advent, By Patrick Kavanagh

This week it is number 21 in the top 100 Irish poems list.

A great poem by Patrick Kavanagh.

This poem 'Advent' is a very religious poem.

If you don't…

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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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☘️ 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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This week's joke:

Not an Irish one but I still got a good laugh from it.

A virile, middle-aged Italian gentleman named Guido was relaxing at his favourite bar in Rome when he managed to attract a spectacular young blond woman. Things progressed to the point where he invited her back to his apartment and, after some small talk, they retired to his bedroom where he rattled her senseless. After a pleasant interlude, he asked with a smile,

"So, you finish?"

She paused for a second, frowned, and replied, "No."

Surprised, Guido reached for her and the rattling resumed. This time she thrashed about wildly and there were screams of passion. The sex finally ends and, again, Guido smiles and asks,

"You finish?"

Again, after a short pause, she returns his smile, cuddles closer to him and softly says, "No."

Stunned, but damned if he was going to leave this woman unsatisfied. Guido reaches for the woman yet again. Using the last of his strength, he barely manages it, but they end together screaming, bucking, clawing and ripping the bed sheets. Exhausted, Guido falls onto his back, gasping. Barely able to turn his head, he looks into her eyes, smiles proudly and asked again,

"You finish?"

Barely able to speak, the beautiful blond whispers in his ear,

"No, I'm Norwegian."

So what is this week's top Irish poem? 

This week it is number 21 in the top 100 Irish poems list. A great poem by Patrick Kavanagh.

This poem' Advent is a very religious poem. If you don't know Advent is a four week period before Christmas, where people would traditionally look at themselves and their actions.

Kavanagh feels that experience has corrupted him – he has 'tested and tasted too much. 

Enjoy this great poem. 

Advent By Patrick Kavanagh 

We have tested and tasted too much, lover-

Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.

But here in the Advent-darkened room

Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea

Of penance will charm back the luxury

Of a child's soul, we'll return to Doom

The knowledge we stole but could not use.

And the newness that was in every stale thing

When we looked at it as children: the spirit-shocking

Wonder in a black slanting Ulster hill

Or the prophetic astonishment in the tedious talking

Of an old fool will awake for us and bring

You and me to the yard gate to watch the whins

And the bog-holes, cart-tracks, old stables where Time begins.

O after Christmas we'll have no need to go searching

For the difference that sets an old phrase burning-

We'll hear it in the whispered argument of a churning

Or in the streets where the village boys are lurching.

And we'll hear it among decent men too

Who barrow dung in gardens under trees,

Wherever life pours ordinary plenty.

Won't we be rich, my love and I, and

God we shall not ask for reason's payment,

The why of heart-breaking strangeness in dreeping hedges

Nor analyse God's breath in common statement.

We have thrown into the dust-bin the clay-minted wages

Of pleasure, knowledge and the conscious hour-

And Christ comes with a January flower.

Patrick Kavanagh 1904 - 1967

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