Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🍦
Jul 15, 2022 11:36 am
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for July 15th 2022...
Irish wisdom: A friend’s eye is a good mirror
Latest updates:
- If you have been following the blog for a long time, you will know that I posted about Michael Flatley's film "Blackbird", which he wrote, directed and starred in. Well, the trailer just came out! Haha. You can watch it here.
- Good to be back in a routine again; I have plenty of new posts this week.
- Ireland is expecting high temperatures next week. And apparently, there is a service station in Meath(Currans' Service Station in Ross Cross, Meath) that sells 99's called "The Big Boy" and is known as the biggest ice cream 99's you can get in the country. It costs €4 with a flake and €3.60 without a flake. Take a look at one of them! WOW! During the weekends they can sell 500 a day!
This week's posts:
🗒️ Irish Poem: To A Child Dancing In The Wind, By W. B. Yeats
Yet another wonderful poem from Yeats makes it into the top 100 Irish poems list.
The post-Irish Poem: To A Child Dancing In The Wind, By W. B.Yeats
Yeats appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🕺 Watch Michael Flatley's New Action Movie Trailer That He Wrote, Directed And Stars In
I published this article in September 2021 with Michael Flatley's greatest moments and briefly spoke about his passion project titled "Blackbird".
At the time, it had been in production …
The post Watch Michael Flatley's New Action Movie Trailer That He Wrote, Directed And Stars In 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.
The post-Irish Riverdancing Dancers Take On Italian Vivaldi's "Winter" appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🏠 Irish Property Prices Grew By 14.4% In The Year To May(Latest CSO Report)
I don't usually write about Irish property prices; typically, you will find me publishing some funny Irish jokes or Celtic Symbols.
But only recently, when I was back in Cork, …
The post-Irish Property Prices Grew By 14.4% In The Year To May(Latest CSO Report) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🥖 Video: How To Make Sourdough Bread Masterclass
I don't know about you, but sourdough bread has to be my favourite bread to eat.
It is easily digestible, tastes fantastic and is excellent for your gut.
The post Video: How To Make Sourdough Bread Masterclass appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes
Paddy and Murphy Enjoy a Day Off
Two best friends, Paddy and Murphy, are working on the site of an office building.
Paddy says to Murphy, "Well, buddy, I'm going to get a day off by pretending to be mad!"
Paddy climbs up the rafters, hangs upside down by his knees and then shouts at the top of his lungs, "I'm a light bulb".
He kept saying it until the foreman had enough and yelled, "Paddy, you fool! You've gone mad. Go home!"
Paddy leaves the site. Murphy starts packing his things so that he, too, can leave.
The foreman asks, "Where are you going?"
Murphy says, "Well, I can't very well work in the dark, can I?"
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Irish Poem: To A Child Dancing In The Wind, By W. B. Yeats
Yet another wonderful poem from Yeats makes it into the top 100 Irish poems list. This one comes in a number 56.
To a Child Dancing in the Wind is a short but powerful poem. It talks about a child dancing on a shore, oblivious to what is happening around them. The main message seems to be how we can all be so careless and carefree when we are young, but as we age, things like love and life happen.
This is particularly evident when he says, "What need have you to dread".
Now let's get to this lovely Irish poem.
To A Child Dancing In The Wind
Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water’s roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind!
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