Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🐄
Sep 03, 2022 1:17 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Saturday, September 3rd 2022...
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This week's posts:
👨🌾 What Traditional Irish Farm Life Was Like In Co. Galway, Ireland 1971
Ever wonder what Irish farm life was like back in the 1970s in Ireland?
Back then, these farmers had no phones, electricity, television, running water, toilet or car.
The post What Traditional Irish Farm Life Was Like, In Co. Galway, Ireland 1971 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🐄 The Lost Heifer, By Austin Clarke – An Iconic Irish Poem
This week I picked a powerful poem by Austin Clarke titled The Lost Heifer.
This poem was published in 1936, and it was a time when Ireland’s nationalism was under …
The post The Lost Heifer, By Austin Clarke – An Iconic Irish Poem, appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🏃♂️ What Exactly Is An Irish Goodbye And How Do You Do It
Ever heard the expression, “Ah, sure he did an Irish goodbye”?
Well, it is quite a famous party trick. What is an Irish goodbye? It is basically when you leave …
The post What Exactly Is An Irish Goodbye And How Do You Do It appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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Today in Irish history, September 3rd:
September 3
- 1654 - The first Protectorate parliament meets; Ireland is represented by 30 members
- 1781 - Birth of William Sharman Crawford, radical politician, in Co. Down
- 1821 - The last day of George IV's visit to Ireland
- 1842 - In Kill, Co. Kildare, the birth of John Devoy, journalist and leading member of the Fenians
- 1850 - Charters are granted to colleges in Belfast (now Queen’s University), Cork (now UCC) and Galway (now UCG), under the Universities (Ireland) Act
- 1854 - Birth of Fanny Parnell, Land League agitator and sister of Charles Stewart Parnell
- 1897 - James Hanley, novelist and short story writer, is born in Liverpool to Irish parents
- 1905 - Birth of James “Snowy” Dunne, widely regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest centre forwards. He played for Arsenal, Southampton and the Shamrock Rovers
- 1913 - A meeting of 400 employers with William Martin Murphy pledges not to employ any persons who continue to be members of the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union.
- 1943 - Birth of Liam Maguire, trade unionist and campaigner for disabled people
- 1963 - Death of poet Louis MacNeice
- 1972 - Mary Peters wins the women's pentathlon in Munich and becomes the first Irish woman to win an Olympic Gold medal
- 1998 - Near the scene of the explosion, US President Bill Clinton and British Premier Tony Blair unveil a plaque in memory of the Omagh bombing victims
- 1998 - New Garda powers come into force which opens the way for a clampdown on hardline extremists
- 2000 - Dom Columba Marmion, a Dublin priest who is credited with curing an American woman of cancer, is beatified by Pope John Paul II
- In the liturgical calendar, it is the feast day of St. MacNis, baptised by St. Patrick and later consecrated Bishop by the Saint.
Irish Joke:
A bold one, but keep in mind it is just a joke! 😆
A farmer named Patrick lived alone in the Irish countryside with his pet dog. The dog finally died, and Patrick went to the parish priest, saying, "Father, my dog died. Could you possibly say Mass for the poor creature?"
Father Murphy told the farmer, "No, we can't have services for an animal in the church, but I'll tell you what, there's a new denomination down the road, and no telling what they believe in, but maybe they'll do something for the animal."
Patrick said, "I'll go right now. By the way, do you think € 5,000 is enough to donate to the service?"
Father Murphy exclaimed, “Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn’t ya tell me the dog was Catholic?”
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
This week I picked a powerful poem by Austin Clarke titled The Lost Heifer. This poem was published in 1936, and it was a time when Ireland's nationalism was under threat. In the poem The Lost Heifer, Clarke writes about Ireland at the time of the Civil War. And if you did not know, a heifer is (in farming) a cow that has not borne a calf or has borne only one calf. But I am sure the mention in this poem has a deeper meaning.
I really like Austin Clarke's poems, they seem so simple, but you can tell there is a whole world of meaning behind them. Just like in the poem I recently shared by Clarke, The Planters Daughter.
This poem, 'The Lost Heifer,' comes in at number 36 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
Enjoy this wonderful Irish poem,
The Lost Heifer by Austin Clarke
When the black herds of the rain were grazing,
In the gap of the pure cold wind
And the watery hazes of the hazel
Brought her into my mind,
I thought of the last honey by the water
That no hive can find.
Brightness was drenching through the branches
When she wandered again,
Turning sliver out of dark grasses
Where the skylark had lain,
And her voice coming softly over the meadow
Was the mist becoming rain.
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