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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for June 4th 2021...

• Where do the weeks go? Before I know it, it is Friday again and I have to get this weekly dose together. Hope you are well.
• This week I updated the Shamrock article with everything you need to know about it. I also made a video on it if you would prefer to watch it here.

Some things you probably didn't know about Ireland☘️:

• Ireland is the only country in the world to have a musical instrument as the national symbol. You can visit some of the oldest harps in the world at Trinity College in Dublin.
• At the height of 688 metres above the Atlantic Ocean, Croaghaun (on Achill Island) are the second-highest cliffs in Europe. The highest is in Cape Enniberg in the Faroe Islands.
• Irish invented Halloween! Over the centuries, the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, a harvest festival that celebrated the end of the summer, and All Saint’s Day merged to become Halloween later as we know it.
• Buenos Aires is home to the largest St Patrick’s Day celebration in South America.
• A motorway in Ireland was delayed by ten years and then rerouted to protect a tree that was thought to belong to fairies. 

Read More Irish Facts here.

This week's posts:

☘️ Anois Teacht an Earraigh(Spring is coming) – Irish And English Version

Another week another top Irish poem. This week it is number 50 which is a poem in Irish. Don’t worry I have included the English version as well.

Anois teacht an Earraigh roughly translated to “Spring is now coming”. Is a poem unlike any I have shared before.

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☘️ UNCLE JOEY: The 21 Best Matt LeBlanc Memes(Friends Reunion)

It has been one week since the Friend’s reunion and I have been steadily laughing at Matt LeBlanc memes all week! Although I would have to say it was more…

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☘️ 20 Of My Favourite Irish Proverbs And Sayings From Ireland

This is a collection of my personal favourite words of wisdom from old Irish proverbs.

You may have heard some in passing and you may have heard some for the …

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This week top Irish poem: Anois Teacht an Earraigh(Spring is coming) –English Version

Another week another top Irish poem. This week it is number 50 which is a poem in Irish. Don’t worry I have included the English version as well.

Anois teacht an Earraigh roughly translated to “Spring is now coming”. Is a poem unlike any I have shared before. It was written by Antaine Ó Reachtaire (1784–1835) was better known as Raifteirí an file (the poet).

Blind since early childhood he was one of the last generations of traditional wandering Gaelic bards – playing the fiddle, singing and also composing.

It was only after his death that his work was written down. The poem ‘Cill Aodáin’ celebrates the Irish tradition of welcoming spring on St Brigid’s Day, the first of February. 

This is considered to be his greatest piece and this is a person who has not to let his disabilities get in the way of life.

Irish Poem: Anois Teacht an Earraig(Spring Is Coming) 

Now with the springtime

The days will grow longer

And after St. Bride’s day’

My sail I’ll let go

I put my mind to it,

And I never will linger

Till I find myself back

In the County Mayo.

In Clare of Morris family

I will be the first night

and in the Wall on the side below it

I will begin to drink

to Maghs Woods I shall go

until I shall make a months visit there

two miles close

to the Mouth of the Big Ford.

I swear

that my heart rises up

as the wind rises up

or as the fog lifts

when I think about Ceara

or about Gaileang on the lower side of it

about Sceathach an Mhíle

or about the plains of Mayo.

Cill Liadain is the town

where everything grows

there are blackberries and raspberries there

and every sort of fruit

and were I to be standing

in the center of my people

age would depart from me

and I would be again young.

There is always wheat and oats

growing barley and flax there

rye in branch there

flower-bread and meat

the folks who make moonshine

without a licence selling it there

the pride of the country

playing and drinking.

There is sowing and plowing

and fertilizing without manure

and it’s many the thing there

of which I have not yet spoken

kilns and mills

working without rest there

with hardly any talk about a pennys rent

or about nothing of that sort.

This weeks joke: The Aer Lingus flight with not enough food

Shortly after take-off on an outbound, evening Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Boston, the lead flight attendant nervously made the following painful announcement in her lovely Irish brogue, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m so very sorry, but it appears that there has been a terrible mix-up by our catering service.

I don’t know how this has happened, but we have 103 passengers on board, and unfortunately, we received only 40 dinner meals.

I truly apologize for this mistake and inconvenience.”

When the muttering of the passengers had died down, she continued, “Anyone who is kind enough to give up their meal so that someone else can eat, will “receive free drinks for the duration of our 10-hour flight.

Her next announcement came about 2 hours later,

“If anyone is hungry, we still have 40 dinners available.”

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Or maybe you don't care, haha. 

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