Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️💸
Aug 19, 2022 11:50 am
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, August 19th 2022...
Irish wisdom: "A misty winter brings a pleasant spring, a pleasant winter a misty spring."
Latest updates:
- Welcome to your weekly dose of Irish! This week I decided to add a news story from the around the world section. I read it and just had to share it! You can read it below.
- I hope you are having a great week, and I wish you a great weekend!
- I am considering making an Irish calendar or a weekly calendar that you can tear off. Each day will include an Irish saying, fact, history and more. Would you be interested? Just reply to this email with Yes so I can gauge your interest.
This week's posts:
🗒️ Lines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin, ‘Erected To The Memory Of Mrs Dermot O’Brien’
Another great poem by the incredible Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967).
A lovely Irish poem that has no break in its 14 lines.
Kavanagh speaks about the thought and feeling of …
The post Lines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin, ‘Erected To The Memory Of Mrs Dermot O’Brien’ appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👨👩👧👧 VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971)
It can be hard to imagine in present-day what life would be like with ten children.
I am sure there are some cases, but they are infrequent.
The post VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
👯 Irish Riverdancing Dancers Take On Italian Vivaldi’s “Winter”
Is there such a thing as Italian Irish dancing?
I don’t know, but this is probably as close as you will come to it.
I love seeing these Irish dancing …
The post Irish Riverdancing Dancers Take On Italian Vivaldi’s “Winter” appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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Today in Irish history, August 19th:
1504 - After Ulick Burke of Clanricard seizes Galway city, Edward Fitzgerald, the Earl of Kildare, goes to Connacht and defeats Burke at Knockdoe. This is the largest battle ever fought between Irishmen, with 10,000 participants and 2,000 fatalities; however, most of the fighting was done by gall óglach - foreign warriors - or gallowglass. As a reward, Fitzgerald is made a Knight of the Garter
1792 - Edward Hincks, orientalist, is born in Cork
1839 - Act passed for the "improvement of navigation on the Shannon."
1876 - The ship Catalpa arrives in the U.S. with Irish Fenian prisoners rescued from Australia
1887 - Birth of poet Francis Ledwidge in Slane, Co. Meath
1995 - After 26 years of shows by some of Ireland's top artists, Dublin's Baggot Inn hosts its final live concert performance
1998 - David Trimble demands that the British government introduce anti-terrorist laws equal to those planned by the Republic
1998 - Sonia O'Sullivan wins the 10,000m at the European Championships in Budapest
1999 - The Connemara Pony Fair in Clifden- the west of Ireland's most prestigious horse festival - is marred by brawls between two traveller groups. The violence is a result of a long-running feud between the McDonagh and Ward families
2001 - The remains of Aer Lingus chairman Bernie Cahill, believed to have drowned after an accident while attending his boat, are received by Rev. Fr. Michael Nolan at St. Mary's Church in Schull.
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Irish Joke:
Every night, an Irishman walks into a bar and orders three shots of whiskey.
He downs each shot, pays the barman and leaves. The bartender eventually asks him why he always drinks exactly three shots. “It’s one for me and one for each of my brothers,” he tells the bartender. “One is in America, and the other is in Australia, and we do this to feel like we’re all still drinking together.” A month later, the Irishman only orders two shots of whiskey. “Oh no,” says the barman. “I’m sorry for your loss. Was it the one in America or Australia?” “What?” The Irishman looks puzzled and then glances at the whiskey glasses. “Jesus, no, it’s nothin’ like that. It’s just that I’ve decided to stop drinking.”
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News stories from around the world:
As I mentioned at the start of the email, I felt it would be nice to include a news story that really moved me this week. And this is it.
A man who held up a bank in Lebanon last week walked out of jail scot-free after a judge reportedly dropped the charges against him. The man, Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, took six people hostage, in a Federal Bank branch in Beirut by brandishing a rifle and threatening to pour gasoline on himself. His demand: a portion of his own savings to pay for his father’s medical bills.
After the bank agreed to give him $35,000 from the $200,000+ in his savings account, Hussein released the hostages.
During the six-hour ordeal, a crowd gathered outside in support of Hussein, who became an emblem of their own financial struggles. That’s because withdrawing money from a Lebanese bank is a lot more difficult than remembering your PIN: After the country’s currency lost 90% of its value in 2019, banks essentially froze customers’ foreign currency assets and restricted how much they could take out each month to as little as $200.
Nearly eight in 10 people in Lebanon live in poverty today, according to Human Rights Watch. “No one will say he did the wrong thing,” one bystander told the Guardian. “Desperate people do desperate things. We are all like him. Even the soldiers and the riot police liked him.”—JW.
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
Lines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin, ‘Erected To The Memory Of Mrs Dermot O’Brien’
Another great poem by the incredible Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967). A lovely Irish poem that has no break in its 14 lines. Kavanagh speaks about the thought and feeling of remembering someone whose name is on a seat on the Grand Canal in Dublin. In Kavanagh’s later years, when he had an alcohol problem, he liked to walk by the Grand Canal or sit watching the water.
I am sure you will agree that this poem is lovely. The most superficial descriptions put you right where he was sitting.
There is now a statue of him on the Grand Canal that I encourage you to stop and sit if you ever get a chance. You can imagine how he felt sitting on the erected bench to the memory of Mrs Dermot O’Brien.
Lines Written on a Seat
on the Grand Canal, Dublin
‘Erected to the memory of Mrs Dermot O’Brien’
By Patrick Kavanagh
O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water, preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer. Brother
Commemorate me thus beautifully
Where by a lock niagarously roars
The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence
Of mid-July. No one will speak in prose
Who finds his way to these Parnassian islands.
A swan goes by head low with many apologies,
Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges –
And look! a barge comes bringing from Athy
And other far-flung towns mythologies.
O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb – just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by.
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