Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️⛵
Nov 12, 2021 6:02 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, November 12th 2021...
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- This weeks top Irish poem is by Oscar Wilde and number 16 on the top 100 Irish poems list. It is over 4000 words long so I have not included it in this email as it would be far too much text but you can read the full one here.
This week's posts:
☘️The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde – Poem Summary
This week I have picked number 16 from the top 100 Irish poems list.
The poem is titled "The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
" And boy is it a long poem.
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The post The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde – Poem Summary appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Irish Poem: "The Workmans Friend" – By Flann O'Brien (A Pint Of Plain)
A pint of plain is a beer and if there was ever a poem that poetically put a beer as essential it would be this one.
This poem comes in …
The post Irish Poem: "The Workmans Friend" – By Flann O'Brien (A Pint Of Plain) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️Jokes and Accents of Ireland – Niall Tóibín
I found this great clip from Niall Tóibín. A fellow Cork man passed away on November 13th 2019. He was a fantastic Irish comedian and actor. The clip is 9…
☘️ 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 …
The post The Strongest Irish Accent You'll Ever Hear, Seriously appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's joke: The Irish Fisherman
It was raining hard and a big puddle had formed in front of an Irish pub.
An old man stood beside the puddle holding a stick with a string on the end and jiggled it up and down in the water.
A curious gentleman asked what he was doing.
'Fishing,' replied the old man.
'Poor old fool' thought the gentleman, so he invited the old man to have a drink in the pub.
Feeling he should start some conversation while they were sipping their whisky, the gentleman asked, 'And how many have you caught?'
'You're the eighth.'
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
This week the poem is more of a story than a poem. It comes in at number 16 on the top 100 Irish poems list. I did not include it in this email. Why? Well, it is over 4000 words! I will share a bit about the poem here and you can grab a cup of tea and read the entire poem here.
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol in 1897.
Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895. During his imprisonment, a hanging took place.
Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen. He was aged 30 when executed.
Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. On his release from prison in 1897, he lived in obscurity in Europe and died in Paris in 1900.
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