Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🏠
Apr 15, 2022 1:01 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for April 15th 2022...
Did you know?
- Did you know? Ireland had a female president in 1990! In the 1990 elections, Mary Robinson was elected the republic’s first woman president. The election of a candidate who was a woman and had socialist and feminist leanings was a huge paradigm shift in Irish politics.
- Irish Wolfhounds are the tallest dog breed in the world.
- Until the 1970s, Irish law prohibited pubs from opening on March 17 as a mark of respect for this religious day.
Irish proverb: He who has water and peat on his own farm has the world his own way.
Latest updates:
- I am back in Co. Cork, Ireland! It is great to be back! And with no restrictions in place, it really feels like life is back to normal. I managed to go to the Midleton Jameson Distillery yesterday. It was fantastic, and of course, I had to get a few bottles for takeaway haha. So a very quiet work week for me.
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This week's posts:
☘️ How To Make A Delicious Irish Shepherd’s Pie – With Video
I grew up with my mother regularly cooking us delicious Irish Shepherd’s pie.
And now that I am an adult, I still crave it now and then.
I found this …
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☘️ Irish Poem: “The Workmans Friend” – By Flann O’Brien(A Pint Of Plain)
A pint of plain is a beer, and if there was ever a poem that poetically put a beer as essential, it would be this one.
This poem comes in …
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☘️ Irish Wolfhound – 15 Things You Need To Know About This Gentle Giant
One of the most searched dog terms on the internet the Irish Wolfhound.
This remarkable dog often claims the award for the biggest dog in the world!
Today I am …
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☘️ Follower, By Seamus Heaney – Full Poem And Analysis
I have picked number 71 from the top 100 Irish poems list and once again it is a familiar appearance on the list, Seamus Heaney.
Ironically it was last week’s …
The post Follower, By Seamus Heaney – Full Poem And Analysis appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes: and some cheesy Easter jokes
Brendan was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up to heaven, he said, "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place, I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of my life and give up the drink." Miraculously, a parking place appeared. Brendan looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found one.”
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Why do eggs go to school? To get egg-ducated.
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Arthur.
Arthur who?
Arthur any more Easter eggs to eat?
- What do you call a Transformer Bunny? Hop-timus Prime.
- What do you call a zen yoga egg? An ommmmmmmmlet.
- What do you need if you eat all your Easter eggs? An eggsplanation.
- What do you get if you pour hot water down a rabbit hole?Hot cross bunnies!
- Why did the Easter Bunny have on a hat?Because he was having a bad hare day.
- What do you call a mischievous Easter egg?A practical yolker
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Follower, By Seamus Heaney – Full Poem And Analysis
I have picked number 71 from the top 100 Irish poems list, and once again, it is a familiar appearance on the list, Seamus Heaney. Ironically it was last week’s poem that I randomly picked Seamus Heaney for his poem about Station island. A very descriptive poem as well.
So what is the poem Follower all about?
The title of the poem tells of how the young Heaney followed his father while he was ploughing. It is a poem that speaks about relationships, growing old and life. Seamus reflects on his younger life in the final paragraph, where he talks about how he was a “nuisance”.
Follower
BY SEAMUS HEANEY
My father worked with a horse-plough,
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Between the shafts and the furrow.
The horses strained at his clicking tongue.
An expert. He would set the wing
And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.
The sod rolled over without breaking.
At the headrig, with a single pluck
Of reins, the sweating team turned round
And back into the land. His eye
Narrowed and angled at the ground,
Mapping the furrow exactly.
I stumbled in his hobnailed wake,
Fell sometimes on the polished sod;
Sometimes he rode me on his back
Dipping and rising to his plod.
I wanted to grow up and plough,
To close one eye, stiffen my arm.
All I ever did was follow
In his broad shadow round the farm.
I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away
What did you think of this poem?
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