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Jun 11, 2022 11:47 am
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for June 11th 2022...
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This week's posts:
🗒️ Irish Poem: Mise Éire – I am Ireland By Pádraic Mac Piarais
This poem was written by Patrick Henry Pearse (Pádraic Mac Piarais), 1879–1916. It is a powerful poem.
It comes in at number 96 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
The post-Irish Poem: Mise Éire – I am Ireland By Pádraic Mac Piarais appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🏘️ Inside Michael Flatley’s €20m Irish Mansion – Castle Hyde House, Co. Cork, Ireland
Over the past few weeks, I have found some great classic videos on Youtube and some have gone back 20 – 40 years and even longer.
The post Inside Michael Flatley’s €20m Irish Mansion – Castle Hyde House, Co.
Cork, Ireland appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☀️ Irish People Talking About Where They Are Going On Holidays In 1973
Did you ever wonder how much a holiday from Ireland used to cost?
Well, I found this incredible footage from C.
R’s vault again. Several interviews of Irish people talking about …
The post-Irish People Talking About Where They Are Going On Holidays In 1973 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🚲 The Last Of The Cycling Postmen, Ireland 1975
It has been a while since I put together an article on some old Irish videos.
This week from CR’s video vaults, it is a clip from 1975.He was …
The post The Last Of The Cycling Postmen, Ireland 1975 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish jokes:
Paudie goes into a bar and orders seven shots of tequila and one Guinness. The barman lines up shots and goes to get the Guinness. When he comes back with the pint, all seven shots are gone.
The barman says: "Wow! You sure drank those fast."
Paudie explains: "You would drink fast too if you had what I have."
The barman asks: "What do you have?"
The guy reaches into his pocket and says: "Fifty cents!"
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A large Canadian lumber company advertised that they were looking for a good Lumberjack.
The very next day, a skinny Irishman showed up at the company with his axe and knocked on the Foreman’s door.
The Foreman took one look at the small Irishman and told him to leave. “Just give me a chance to show you what I can do,” said the Irishman.
“Okay, see that giant redwood over there?” said the Foreman. “Take your axe and go cut it down.”
The Irishman headed for the tree, and in five minutes, he was back knocking on the Foreman’s door.
“I cut the tree down,” said the Irishman.
“Holy smokes!” Said the Foreman. “Where did you get the skill to chop down trees like that?”
“In the Sahara Forest,” replied the Irishman.
Confused, the Forman asked, “…don’t you mean the Sahara Desert?”
“Oh... Is that what they call it now?”
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Irish Poem: Mise Éire – I am Ireland By Pádraic Mac Piarais
This poem was written by Patrick Henry Pearse (Pádraic Mac Piarais), 1879–1916.
It is a powerful poem. It comes in at number 96 on the top 100 Irish poems list. Pearse was featured four times in the top 100 list. Pádraic Mac Piarais wrote this poem hoping for a united Ireland free from British rule. He joined (1913) the Irish Volunteers and commanded the Irish forces in the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Upon his surrender, he was tried by a court-martial in England and promptly executed.
His other poems, the fool and the Wayfarer(written the night before he was executed), are also incredible poems worth reading.
The poem is first in Irish and then translated to English.
Pádraic Mac Piarais (1879–1916)
Mise Éire:
Sine mé ná an Chailleach* BhéarraMór mo ghlóir:
Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga.
Mór mo náir:
Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair.
Mór mo phian:
Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh.
Mór mo bhrón:
D’éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas.
Mise Éire:
Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach* Bhéarra.
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I am Ireland:
I am older than the old woman* of Beare.Great my glory:
I who bore Cuchulainn, the brave.
Great my shame:
My own children who sold their mother.
Great my pain:
My irreconcilable enemy who harasses me continually…
Great my sorrow
That crowd, in whom I placed my trust, died.
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the old woman* of Beare.
What did you think about this powerful Irish poem?
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