Your weekly dose of Irish š„āļø
Jul 30, 2021 4:01 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for July 30th 2021...
- Yesterday Olympian rowers Paul OāDonovan And Fintan McCarthy became the first Irish athletes to take home gold in the Olympics! They won a spectacular lightweight men's double sculls final in a time of 6:06.43.
- I created a new video on my Youtube channel with five celebrities that wore the Irish Claddagh ring. Curious who wore it? Watch the video here.
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Five things you might not know about Ireland and the Olympics:
- To date, the highest number of medals won by Ireland at an Olympiad is six, at the 2012 London games. The highest number of golds is three, at the 1996 Atlanta games when Michelle Smith won all of Ireland's medals. Fingers crossed for this Tokyo 2020!
- Australia, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only three countries to have participated in every Olympic Games since 1896.
- Pat OāCallaghan won gold at the 1928 games in the hammer throw, Irelandās first medal at the Olympics.
- Prior to 1922, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Competitors at earlier Games born and living in Ireland are thus counted as British in Olympic statistics. At the early Olympics, Irish-born athletes won numerous medals for the United States and Canada, notably the "Irish Whales" in throwing events.
- Until 1912, first-place Olympic medals were made of solid gold! Wouldn't mind being a winner back then.
This week's posts:
Well, I certainly have been enjoying watching the Olympics the last week.
Watching dreams come true is something I never get bored of.
I couldnāt have been more excited about ā¦
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āļø Five Facts You Might Not Know About Ireland And The Olympics
Well, Tokyo 2020 has certainly been exciting to watch.
Aside from doing some Irish facts this week, I thought it would be better to share some facts about Ireland and ā¦
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āļø 100+ Incredible Irish Facts About Ireland From Cork To Belfast
Ireland is an amazing country, and I am sure that these Irish facts will surprise you.
They certainly did for me.
I try to update this article weekly and share ā¦
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āļø An Irish Drinking Jokeā¦
There is no shortage of Irish jokes on my site.
But this week I found a lovely clip from Mike Dunafon.
He is a great storyteller and I love the ā¦
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Canal Bank Walk, by Patrick Kavanagh
Another short but powerful Irish poem. It comes in at number 8 on the top 100 Irish poems.
Patrick Kavanagh wrote this poem after recovering from lung cancer in 1954. Kavanagh used to take walks along the Canal bank in Dublin after treatment.
The Canal Bank Walk is in Dublin City is on the banks of the Grand Canal between Portabello and Mount Street. It is a beautiful stretch of walkway, with leafy green trees and gorgeous benches.
This is a beautiful unhurried poem in which the poetās emotions and a new lease on life shine through.
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.
This week's joke: A lesson from Linda
Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, "surely I can't look that old.". Well . . . you'll love this one..The stuff is from a lady called Linda
"My name is Linda. I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist.
I noticed his BDS degree on the wall, which bore his full name.
Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name who had been in my high school class some 25-odd years ago.
Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?
Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, grey-haired man with a deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended St Xavier's high school.
"Yes. yes, I did.' he gleamed with pride.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1995. Why do you ask?"
"You were in my class!!!!", I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely.
Then,
that
ugly,
old,
bald,
wrinkled faced,
grey-haired,
decrepit,
idiot,
asked,
"What subject did you teach" ?"
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