Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️☕
Nov 05, 2022 11:44 am
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Saturday, November 5th 2022...
- Irish proverb: Beauty doesn’t boil the kettle.
Latest updates:
- As I mentioned last week, I planned to include an Irish recipe in every weekly dose. Many requests came in for soda bread or an Irish stew.
- And I made an Irish stew mid-week, which was delicious. So delicious, in fact, that I did not record the exact recipe and ate it all. Well ate it all over several days, haha. I will try replicating it next week and have the recipe card for you. Unless I eat it again and forget to do the recipe 😆
- But I did publish this simple but delicious Irish coffee recipe 😋
- I have also updated my post on the Triquetra. One of the Celt's most iconic Irish symbols.
- I wish you a great weekend!
This weeks posts
🗒️ The Splendour of God, By Joseph Mary Plunkett – Irish Poem
The poem, the splendour of God, is a great Irish poem that comes in at 75 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
And yes, you guessed it, the …
The post The Splendour of God, By Joseph Mary Plunkett – Irish Poem appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👶 20 Traditional And Unique Irish Baby Names For 2023
I recently shared this lovely poem about a newborn baby being fed and thought I would publish a post with 10 Irish baby boy and girl names for 2023.It …
The post 20 Traditional And Unique Irish Baby Names For 2023 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☕ How To Make A Simple And Delicious Irish Coffee In 1 Minute
I love Irish coffee from time to time.
You would be surprised how many places worldwide have Irish coffee on their menus.
Often we can overcomplicate it and take too …
The post How To Make A Simple And Delicious Irish Coffee In 1 Minute appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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Today in Irish history, November 5th:
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
The poem, the splendour of God, is a great Irish poem that comes in at number 75 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
And yes, you guessed it, the Irish poem is a religious poem about God. Joseph Mary Plunkett was born in Dublin. During the 1916 Rising, he was one of the signers of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. He was imprisoned by the English army in the Richmond Barracks. Shortly before his execution in the courtyard of Kilmainham jail, on the morning of May 4th, he married his fiance, Grace Gifford, in the jail's chapel. He died at the age of 28. His friend Thomas McDonagh was executed the day before him.
Given the circumstances, it is no wonder that he reflected in God.
The Splendour of God
The drunken stars stagger across the sky,
The moon wavers and sways like a wind-blown bud,
Beneath my feet the earth like drifting scud
Lapses and slides, wallows and shoots on high;
Immovable things start suddenly flying by,
The city shakes and quavers, a city of mud
And ooze—a brawling cataract is my blood
Of molten metal and fire—like God am I.
When God crushes his passion-fruit for our thirst
And the universe totters—I have burst the grape
Of the world, and let its powerful blood escape
Untasted—crying whether my vision durst
See God’s high glory in a girl’s soft shape—
God! Is my worship blessed or accurst?
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Irish Joke:
Paddy died in a fire and was burnt pretty badly. So the morgue needed someone to identify the body. His two best friends, Seamus and Sean, were sent for. Seamus went in, and the mortician pulled back the sheet.
Seamus said, "Yup, he's burnt pretty bad. Roll him over".
So the mortician rolled him over. Seamus looked and said, "Nope, it ain't Paddy."
The mortician thought that was rather strange, and then he brought Sean in to identify the body.
Sean took a look at him and said, "Yup, he's burnt real bad; roll him over."
The mortician rolled him over, and Sean looked down and said, "No, it ain't Paddy."
The mortician asked, "How can you tell?"
Sean said, "Well, Paddy had two arseholes."
"What? He had two arseholes?" asked the mortician.
"Yup, everyone knew he had two arseholes. Every time we went into town, folks would say, 'Here comes Paddy with them two arseholes....'"
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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 participate in 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 later sought to connect Irish people around the world. Which lead to the blog and email you are currently reading.
I have always enjoyed reading about Irish heritage and how connected Irish people are around the world. But I felt that the websites did not connect the people to the information. Instead, they just published daily articles regardless of whether people cared about them or not. So I decided to change it and create my own Facebook community called Irish Around The World. It expanded to an Irish Around The World group, now with over 70k members!
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