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May 15, 2021 2:15 pm

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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for May 15th, 2021...

Hope you enjoy this weekly dose on a Saturday. I was going to send it out yesterday but I was still putting together this video on Irish facts. Hope you enjoy it. Be sure to subscribe to my updated YouTube channel for more Irish videos as well.
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Six Irish facts for your Saturday:

The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland! Sean’s Bar has been researched thoroughly by the Guinness Book of Records and proudly holds the record for “The Oldest Pub in Ireland” with an official dating of 900AD. Research is ongoing into the title of “The Oldest Pub in the World”; so far, nothing older has been found.
Ireland created duty-free shopping. Amazingly it all started at Shannon Airport in 1947
Did you know? In Irish, there is no word for YES or NO. However, you can say Tá sin ceart – That`s right.
The song “When Irish Eyes are Smiling,” was written by two Americans, George Graff and Chauncey Olcott, in 1912. But no records state that they ever visited Ireland.
The novel Dracula was written by an Irish man! Abraham “Bram” Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Born in Clontarf, Dublin.

This week's posts:

☘️ Death Of An Irishwoman, By Michael Hartnett – Top Irish Poem

This week’s Irish poem comes in at number 86 in the top 100 Irish poems list.

A very powerful poem in which Michael Harnett says goodbye to his grandmother.

In …

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☘️ An Irish Drinking Joke…

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 …

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This week's Irish joke, A funny image I came across on Facebook:

This week top Irish poem:

Death Of An Irishwoman, By Michael Hartnett

A very powerful poem in which Michael Harnett says goodbye to his grandmother. In ‘Death of an Irishwoman’ Harnett talks about his appreciation for his Gaelic grandmother and although she lived a simple life he feels guilty for not being around more, “I loved her from the day she died.”

After her passing in 1975, Hartnett vowed to live a simpler life speaking only in Gaelic(Irish) and moved from urban life in Dublin to his grandmother’s house in rural Limerick.

This lasted over 10 years where he did in fact stay true to his word.

He later moved back to Dublin where he published his first English publication of Inchicore Haiku, a book that deals with the turbulent events in his personal life over the previous few years.

So this poem marks a significant turning point in the poet’s life.

DEATH OF AN IRISHWOMAN

Ignorant, in the sense

she ate monotonous food

and thought the world was flat,

and pagan, in the sense

she knew the things that moved

at night were neither dogs nor cats

but púcas and darkfaced men,

she nevertheless had fierce pride.

But sentenced in the end

to eat thin diminishing porridge

in a stone-cold kitchen

she clenched her brittle hands

around a world

she could not understand.

I loved her from the day she died.

She was a summer dance at the crossroads.

She was a card game where a nose was broken.

She was a song that nobody sings.

She was a house ransacked by soldiers.

She was a language seldom spoken.

She was a child’s purse, full of useless things.

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.

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

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