Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️
Aug 01, 2022 4:52 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Monday, August 1st 2022...
Irish wisdom: Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your way.
Latest updates:
- Today is a bank holiday in Ireland, so I decided to publish the weekly dose today instead of Friday and Saturday.
- Back in 1985, the two Irish kids aged 10 and 13 managed to travel from Dublin on their own to New York City in hopes of tracking down MR T, B A Baracus from the A-Team.
- They made it to New York and made headlines around the world! They are now working on making it into a full-length motion-picture film. The documentary is getting its Irish TV premiere. You can watch the Irish TV premiere on RTÉ One on Tuesday, 2 August 2022, at 10.30 pm.
- For anyone in the United States, you can watch it online here.
- You can also read the story of how a ten and 13-year-old travelled from Dublin to NYC by themselves.
This week's posts:
✍️ Irish Poem Another September, by Thomas Kinsella
Well, since we are fast approaching September, I thought a poem about Autumn would be appropriate.
This poem comes in at 35 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
The post Irish Poem Another September, by Thomas Kinsella appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🚬 How Many Cigarettes Do You Smoke? Ireland Circa 1962
I hope you have been enjoying these old Irish videos.
I have tried to find one every week, and you can see a selection of the posts here.
The post How Many Cigarettes Do You Smoke?
Ireland Circa 1962 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👯 Irish Riverdancing Dancers Take On Italian Vivaldi’s “Winter”
Is there such a thing as Italian Irish dancing?
I don’t know, but this is probably as close as you will come to it.
I love seeing these Irish dancing …
The Irish Riverdance Dancers Take On Italian Vivaldi’s “Winter” appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish joke
My Favourite Animal |
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favourite animal. I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too. especially chicken, pork and beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again. The next day in class, my teacher asked me what my favourite live animal was. I told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken. She sent me back to the principal’s office. He laughed and told me not to do it again. I don’t understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am. Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I admired most. I told her, “Colonel Sanders.” Guess where I am now... |
Our teacher asked what my favourite animal was, and I said, “Fried chicken.” She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right because everyone else laughed.So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Well, since we are fast approaching September, I thought a poem about Autumn would be appropriate. This poem comes in at 35 on the top 100 Irish poems list. Every week I share a new top Irish poem.
The poem by Thomas Kinsella is about spending time at his wife’s family home. You might remember him from another of his poems in the top 100 Mirror in February. I find that Thomas Kinsella reflects a lot in his life but then puts those reflections to paper in an ever so-dramatic way. Sadly I learned that he passed away in December 2021 at the age of 90.
In the poem Another September the speaker is plunged into the isolated world of his wife’s past. Enjoy and get lost in this beautiful poem.
Another September
Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw
With the touch of the dawn, wrapped in a minor peace,
Hears through an open window the garden draw
Long pitch black breaths, lay bare its apple trees,
Ripe pear trees, brambles, windfall-sweetened soil,
Exhale rough sweetness against the starry slates.
Nearer the river sleeps St. John’s, all toil
Locked fast inside a dream with iron gates.
Domestic Autumn, like an animal
Long used to handling by those countrymen,
Rubs her kind hide against the bedroom wall
Sensing a fragrant child come back again
– Not this half-tolerated consciousness
That plants its grammar in her yielding weather
But that unspeaking daughter, growing less
Familiar where we fell asleep together.
Wakeful moth wings blunder near a chair,
Toss their light shell at the glass, and go
To inhabit the living starlight. Stranded hair
Stirs on still linen. It is as though
The black breathing that billows her sleep, her name,
Drugged under judgement, waned and – bearing daggers
And balances–down the lampless darkness they came,
Moving like women : Justice, Truth, such figures.
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