Hi there,

Here's my weekly dose of Irish for April 23rd, 2021.

• I am back! Did you miss my last week? I took a week off! No blogging, no weekly dose. Sorry about that, but we all need a break sometimes :)
• On the plus side, I thought of a brand new category for the blog. "Irish Stories!" I will be sharing peoples Irish stories from around the world. This week was a collection the most Irish thing that has happened to you. Read the post here.

Five Irish facts for your Friday:

1. Turning 100 In Ireland? What a fitting point for my last Irish fact. On your 100th birthday, you receive a letter and €2,540 from the President as part of the Centenarian Bounty. On each subsequent birthday, you receive a letter and a commemorative coin—source: President.
2. The oldest yacht club is in Co. Cork, Ireland. The Royal Cork Yacht Club, founded in 1720, is widely recognised as the world’s oldest yacht club.
3. St. Patrick’s name wasn’t actually ‘Patrick’. It was, in fact, it was Maewyn Succat.
4. The Irish report the lowest annual number of UFO sightings in Europe.
5. May is generally the driest month of the year in Ireland. 

This week's posts:

☘️ Irish Stories: “The Most Irish Thing That Happened To Me”

After some reflection, I have thought of a great new section for the blog “Irish Stories”.

You may have noticed the weekly dose of Irish did not come out last …

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☘️ Top 40 Of The Funniest Irish Jokes (With New Paddy And Murphy Jokes)

Irish jokes are famous across the world, some good and some bad.

For the past 30 days, I have been sharing an Irish joke every day on my Facebook page.

To …

The post Top 40 Of The Funniest Irish Jokes (With New Paddy And Murphy Jokes) appeared first on Irish Around The World.

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This week's Irish joke from Father Ted:

This week top Irish poem:

Personal Helicon By Seamus Heaney.

In this great poem, Seamus Heaney takes us back to a simpler time. A time when he was happy out playing by a well. It is a shorter poem, but Seamus has great use of imagery. In fact, you are almost transported back to his childhood through his words. 

As a child, they could not keep me from wells

And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.

I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells

Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.

One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.

I savoured the rich crash when a bucket

Plummeted down at the end of a rope.

So deep you saw no reflection in it.

A shallow one under a dry stone ditch

Fructified like any aquarium.

When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch

A white face hovered over the bottom.

Others had echoes, gave back your own call

With a clean new music in it. And one

Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall

Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.

Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,

To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring

Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme

To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

See my top Irish poems list here.

About the founder of Irish Around The World: 

Okay, some of you might be wondering.

Just who runs this Irish Around The World website?? 

Or maybe you don't care, haha. 

My name is Stephen Palmer from Co. Cork and I have been involved in many Irish related projects over the years. 

While it may seem this website is run by a whole team of highly skilled Irishmen, it is just run by myself. 

So I want to thank you again for taking the time to subscribe and being a part of the community. 

So how did you start a website about Irish people around the world Stephen?

Where it all began: 

I created a website in 2013 to help Irish people who are moving to Australia and recently a new group to help Irish ex-pats who are returning to Ireland.

I have always enjoyed reading about Irish heritage and how connected Irish people are around the world.

But I felt that the websites out there did not connect the people to the information. Instead, they just published daily articles regardless if people cared about them or not. 

So I decided to change it and create my own Facebook community called Irish Around The World.

It expanded to a group also called Irish Around The World, now with over 70k members!

Many of you have probably seen me popping in,, and out of our Facebook group has been amazing to see the interaction with each member. 

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Have a great day! 

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Stephen Palmer

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