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Jan 07, 2022 2:09 pm
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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, January 7th 2022...
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This week's posts:
☘️Inniskeen Road, July Evening, by Patrick Kavanagh – Poem And Analysis
This week, I have picked number 30 from the top 100 Irish poems list.
It is titled Inniskeen Road, July Evening and is primarily about Irish life was …
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☘️ Predicting What The Future Of Ireland Will Be In 1979
Another great clip from the archives on YouTube.
It is always interesting to look back at what people thought the world would be like in the future.
This clip talks …
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☘️ Five Irish Food Inventions That Changed The World – Part 1
For such a tiny nation, we certainly have had quite a significant impact worldwide.
Previously I shared over 100+ Irish facts, and many of you were amazed to …
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☘️ Delicious And Quick Irish Hot Toddy Recipe
Flu season is here; it is around about when we all get the terrible flu for many of us.
What if I told you there was a delicious Irish …
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This week's Irish joke
I was once standing at a bar in the city of Cork, enjoying my pint of the black stuff. Guinness to you. The door suddenly opens, in walks a Chinese man who stands beside and starts to drink.
‘’Tell me,’’ I say to him. ‘’Do you know any fancy moves, like in Kung Fu? Anything at all that could get you out of a load of trouble?’’
“Oh no,’’ he says to me in a really annoying way.
‘’Is this because I’m Chinese, and we’re all supposed to be experts in Kung Fu like Bruce Lee?’’
“No,’’ I say back to him.
‘’It’s because you’re drinking my Guinness!” Haha
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Bonus old Irish joke "The Elevator" :
Pat, his wife and their 9-year-old son went shopping in Dublin for the first time. Pat had never been to Dublin and always lived in the countryside.
Pat and his son were totally amazed by nearly everything they saw. But it was a shiny silver wall that opened and closed magically that really got their attention.
The boy asked his father, Pat,
What is this dad?
Pat(who had never seen an elevator before) responded,
Son I have never seen anything like this in my life, I have no clue what it is!
While Pat and his son were staring with amazement, a fat old lady came to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The walls opened, and the lady got between them and into a small room.
The walls magically closed, and the boy and his father watched in amazement as the small numbers above the wall lit up sequentially.
They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and the numbers began to light in reverse order.
The door opened, and a young blonde stepped out.
Pat, not taking his eyes of the young woman, said quietly to his son.....
Go get your mother
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Inniskeen Road, July Evening, by Patrick Kavanagh
This week, I have picked number 30 from the top 100 Irish poems list. It is titled Inniskeen Road, July Evening and is primarily about Irish life in the countryside in the 1930s.
Kavanagh writes this poem(as he does in so many others) with such fantastic imagery. You get the feeling of isolation and his rustic imagination for the Irish countryside.
It seems that there is a big event going on that evening, but Kavanagh was not invited to “Billy Brenand’s barn.” So, as a result, it depicts the isolation and loneliness that he would have felt.
I love his line, “A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king.” Here Kavanagh is saying that he is the king of everything he surveys, but he is the only king of “Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.”
A wonderfully written poem that perfectly encapsulates how he must have felt that July evening.
I like this poem as it reminds me of his other very descriptive poem Spraying the Potatoes.
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
The bicycles go by in twos and threes –
There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,
And there’s the half-talk code of mysteries
And the wink-and-elbow language of delight.
Half-past eight and there is not a spot
Upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown
That might turn out a man or woman, not
A footfall tapping secrecies of stone.
I have what every poet hates in spite
Of all the solemn talk of contemplation.
Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight
Of being king and government and nation.
A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king
Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.
Patrick Kavanagh 1904 – 1967
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