Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🏉
Feb 11, 2022 5:15 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, February 11th 2022...
This week:
Irish Wisdom - No matter how many rooms you have in your house, you're only able to sleep in one bed.
Did you know? - You probably have seen a picture of the famous Cobh cathedral before, but did you know it has more bells than in any church in the UK and Ireland. Together they weigh over 26 tonnes! It also contains Ireland's largest bell, named St Colman (3.6 tons). The cathedral also took more than 46 decades to build. Wow!
Latest updates & news:
- A Galway man is bracing himself to swim the length of the river Shannon in 14 days this summer in memory of his late brother. Read more on the Irish times - Thanks to Wick for sharing that piece, a reader on a boat in Tahiti.
- Ireland take on France tomorrow in the six nations! It will likely be a great game, and I will be watching with a beer in hand. Common Ireland 🇮🇪
- I have three Irish jokes this week; enjoy!
- It is only a few days until Valentine's day! I wish you this lovely Irish blessing:
Tá tú iontach álainn. Translation: You're amazingly beautiful.
Pronounced: Taw too een-tach(k) awl-in.
Here is a lovely Irish blessing:
It is only 34 days until St Patrick's day 2022! ☘️
This week's posts:
❤️ Top 10 Irish Blessings And Wishes For Valentines Day
Many of you loved my post of the best Irish sayings; well, today, I have my top 10 Irish blessings and wishes for St Patrick's day.
The post Top 10 Irish Blessings And Wishes For Valentines Day appeared first on Irish Around The World.
❤️ 15 Irish Sayings About Love For Valentines Day
Valentine's day is only around the corner.
And if you are looking for some lovely Irish sayings about Valentine's day, then you have come to the right place!
The post 15 Irish Sayings About Love For Valentines Day appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🗒️ Autumn Journal, By Louis MacNeice – Timeless Irish Poem
I hope you have been enjoying these weekly top Irish poems.
Every Friday, I send them out to my weekly dose of Irish.
The post Autumn Journal, By Louis MacNeice – Timeless Irish Poem appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish joke's:
An Irishman sees a job advert published on a building site, 'handyman
wanted apply within. So he does and speaks to the foreman.
Foreman: Can you drive a forklift truck?
Irishman: No
Foreman: Can you plaster?
Irishman: No
Foreman: Can you brick lay?
Irishman: No
Foreman: If you don't mind me asking, what's handy about you?
Irishman: I only live five minutes down the road.
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An attractive young lady was on a plane arriving from Ireland. She found herself seated next to an elderly priest whom she asked: "Excuse me, Father, could I ask a favour?" "Of course, my child, What can I do for you?" "Here is the problem. I bought myself a new sophisticated vibrating hair remover for which I paid an enormous sum of money. I have gone over the declaration limits, and I am worried that they will confiscate it at customs. Do you think you could hide it under your cassock?" "Of course, I could, my child, but you must realize that I cannot lie." "You have such an honest face, Father, I am sure they will not ask you any questions", and she gave him the worrisome personal gadget. The aircraft arrived at its destination. When the priest presented himself to customs, he was asked, "Father, do you have anything to declare?" "From the top of my head to my sash, I have nothing to declare, my son", he replied. Finding his reply strange, the customs officer asked, "And from the sash down, what do you have?" The priest replied, "I have there a marvellous little instrument destined for use by women, but which has never been used." Breaking out in laughter, the customs officer said, "Go ahead, Father. Next!"
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The Monsignor greeted Paddy and said, "Congratulations on your 50th wedding anniversary"! Have you any plans made on how to celebrate?"
"Well," said Paddy, "on our 25th Anniversary, I took Mary to Ireland."
And what are you going to do on your 50th?" asked the Msgr.
"Well," said Paddy, "I think I'll bring her back."
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
I hope you have been enjoying these weekly top Irish poems. Every Friday, I send them out to my weekly dose of Irish. This week is an older poem from number 62 on the top 100 Irish poems. But I like learning and writing about these older Irish poems. Many of them seem just as relevant as they were back then in the present day, just like when I recently wrote about Yeat's poem the host of the air.
The Irish poem Autumn Journal was written sometime between August and December 1938. Now, this top Irish poem is about 2000 – 3000 lines long! So I am not going to share all of them with you here. But I do have a selection from it.
Back then, poem releases used to be so prominent. I like to think of them as a box office movie coming out today. But not a global film, more like a box office Irish movie that everyone wants to see, well, in this case, read.
The poems are all written directly with a lot of metaphors. It makes it surprisingly easy to follow, more like a story than some more complicated poems. It was also written at the time of the Spanish War, which affected many Irish people. It is divided into "Canto's", which I learned are one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided. E.g. Danto’s Inferno is 100 cantos
I have added the final section titled Canto XXIV(24), the last paragraph. If you are interested in buying the full selection of poems, they are available on Amazon here.
Who was Louis MacNeice?
Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (September 12th 1907 – September 3rd 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright from Northern Ireland and a member of the Auden Group, including W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. More info on his Wiki page is here.
Autumn Journal Canto XXIV, Final paragraph
Sleep serene, avoid the backward
Glance 5 go forward, dreams, and do not halt
(Behind you in the desert stands a token
Of doubt — a pillar of salt).
Sleep, the past, and wake, the future,
And walk out promptly through the open door 5
But you, my coward doubts, may go on sleeping,
You need not wake again — not any more.
The New Year comes with bombs, it is too late
To dose the dead with honourable intentions:
If you have honour to spare, employ it on the living;
The dead are dead as 1938.
Sleep to the noise of running water
To-morrow to be crossed, however deep;
This is no river of the dead or Lethe,
To-night we sleep
On the banks of Rubicon — the die is cast;
There will be time to audit
The accounts later, there will be sunlight later
And the equation will come out at last.
I also found this great clip from the archives. It features many prominent poets and authors reading Autumn Journal. It aired on RTE in 1999. It celebrated the 60th anniversary of Louis MacNeice's epic poem 'Autumn Journal'.
Click here to watch the Youtube video.
What did you think of the poem?
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