Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🥔
Oct 15, 2021 2:30 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, October 15th 2021...
- On this date 15th, October 1995 Seamus Heaney(famous Irish poet) won the noble prize for literature.
- I will now be starting every email with a lovely Irish saying. This week it is May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside! ~ Irish saying
- As promised, two weeks ago, I have created a post on 20 things you don't know about Leprechauns. You can read it here. And I do hope you catch one!
This week's posts:
☘️ 20 Things You Didn't Know About Leprechauns
When does a Leprechaun cross the street?
When it turns green!
Haha, Still here?
Great Ah, Leprechauns!
Arguably one of Ireland's most famous folklores...
☘️ Watch Dave Allen's Great Irish Joke On Catching A Leprechaun
I always enjoy Dave Allen the way he told jokes and stories is still as relevant today as many years ago.
In this short clip that I found …
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☘️ The Strongest Irish Accent You'll Ever Hear, Seriously
When I first saw this video on Youtube, I immediately thought, will this be the strongest Irish accent I've ever heard?
To my delight, it indeed was.
This video is …
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Spraying the Potatoes, by Patrick Kavanagh No 48 Top Irish Poems
I am back with another fantastic top Irish poem. This week we see yet another poem from the great Patrick Kavanagh. You might be thinking you have seen me mention him quite often, and you would be correct.
Patrick Kavanagh appears in the top 100 Irish poems list 14 times!
This week it is the lovely Irish poem titled "Spraying the Potatoes." Patrick Kavanagh was born in a rural area of County Monaghan, a northern county in the Irish province of Ulster. His father was a shoemaker who also owned a small farm.
It was known that he often despised Dublin and would regularly return to the farm to escape. He also hated the way the city people viewed rural people. And one could argue that this still exists in the present day.
The thing I like most about this poem is its simplicity and imagery. You could say he is a bit of a wordsmith.
He does a great job of explaining just what life was like at exactly that time.
Enjoy this lovely Irish poem. .
Spraying the Potatoes
The barrels of blue potato-spray
Stood on a headland in July
Beside an orchard wall where roses
Were young girls hanging from the sky.
The flocks of green potato stalks
Were blossom spread for sudden flight,
The Kerr's Pinks in frivelled blue,
The Arran Banners wearing white.
And over that potato-field
A lazy veil of woven sun,
Dandelions growing on headlands, showing
Their unloved hearts to everyone.
And I was there with a knapsack sprayer
On the barrel's edge poised. A wasp was floating
Dead on a sunken briar leaf
Over a copper-poisoned ocean.
The axle-roll of a rut-locked cart
Broke the burnt stick of noon in two.
An old man came through a cornfield
Remembering his youth and some Ruth he knew.
He turned my way. 'God further the work'.
He echoed an ancient farming prayer.
I thanked him. He eyed the potato drills.
He said: 'You are bound to have good ones there'.
We talked and our talk was a theme of kings,
A theme for strings. He hunkered down
In the shade of the orchard wall. O roses,
The old man dies in the young girl's frown.
And poet lost to potato-fields,
Remembering the lime and copper smell
Of the spraying barrels he is not lost
Or till blossomed stalks cannot weave a spell.
Patrick Kavanagh 1904 - 1967
This week's Irish joke:
A bit of a dirty one, haha: The Navy bonus
The Navy found they had too many officers and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer who volunteered for Retirement a bonus of $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any two points in his body.
The officer got to choose what those two points would be.
The first officer who accepted asked that he be measured from the top of his head to the tip of ...his toes. He was measured at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000.
The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked to be measured from the tip of his outstretched hands to his toes.
He walked out with $96,000.
The third one was a non-commissioned officer, an old grizzly Chief who, when asked where he would like to be measured, replied,
'From the tip of my weenie to my testicles.'
It was suggested by the pension man that he might want to reconsider, explaining about the nice big cheques the previous two Officers had received.
But the old Chief insisted, and they decided to go along with him, providing the measurement was taken by a Medical Officer.
The Medical Officer arrived and instructed the Chief to 'drop 'em,' which he did. The medical officer placed the tape measure on the tip of the Chief's penis and began to work back. "Dear Lord!" he suddenly exclaimed, "Where are your testicles?"
The old Chief calmly replied," Vietnam.'
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