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Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, October 1st 2021...

• I hope you are having a great week. This week I updated the article on Leprechauns that I wrote a few years back. You can read it here.
• Next week I will be sharing 20 things you did not know about Leprechauns
• And this week, I found a brilliant video from Dave Allen talking about what happens when you catch a Leprechaun. You can watch it here.

Otherwise, have a great week and enjoy your weekly dose of Irish!

This week's posts:

☘️ Watch Dave Allen's Great Irish Joke On Catching A Leprechaun

I always enjoy Dave Allen the way he told jokes and stories is still as relevant today as it was many years ago.

In this short clip that I found on YouTube, Dave Allen tells the story of catching a leprechaun and what happens after you catch one. 

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☘️Snow, By Louis MacNeice – Analysis, Summary And Poem

Another week another top Irish poem. This week is the first appearance of Louise MacNeice. 

You might not have heard of Louise MacNeice but he was born in Belfast, Ireland and educated at Oxford...

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☘️ Watch Riverdance Michael Flatley's "Final Performance"

Well, last week I was pleased to see such a positive reaction to Michael Flatley's greatest moments that I had to share another video with you.

 This is the last …

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So what is this week's top Irish poem? 

Snow, By Louis MacNeice – Analysis, Summary And Poem

Another week another top Irish poem. This week is the first appearance of Louise MacNeice. 

You might not have heard of Louise MacNeice, but he was born in Belfast, Ireland and educated at Oxford; MacNeice came of age with his 1939 volume Autumn Journal. For many years a radio dramatist and producer for the BBC.

What is the poem Snow about?'

Good question! Some people have said it about the way things are and the nature of reality, and then others say it is about finding beauty in complicated things in life. 

I particularly like the line: 

World is crazier and more of it than we think,

But what do you think the meaning behind this great poem is, comment below. It comes in at number 39 on the top 100 Irish poems list. 

Now let's get to the poem. 

Snow, By Louis MacNeice

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was

Spawning snow and pink roses against it

Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:

World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,

Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion

A tangerine and spit the pips and feel

The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world

Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes –

On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one’s hands –

There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

This week's Irish joke:

An Irish farmer and five pigs

An Irish farmer had five female pigs. Times were hard, so he decided to take them to the county fair and sell them.

At the fair, he met another farmer who owned five male pigs.

After talking a bit, they decided to mate the pigs and split everything 50/50.

The farmers lived sixty miles apart, so they agreed to drive thirty miles each and find a field in which to let the pigs mate.

The first morning, the farmer with the female pigs got up at 5 A.M., loaded the pigs into the family station wagon, (which was the only vehicle he had) and drove the thirty miles.

While the pigs were mating, he asked the other farmer, "How will I know if they are pregnant?"

The other farmer replied, "If they're lying in the grass tomorrow morning, They're pregnant. If they're in the mud, they're not."

The next morning the pigs were rolling in the mud, so he hosed them off, loaded them into the family station wagon again and proceeded to try again.

This continued each morning for more than a week and both farmers were worn out.

The next morning he was too tired to get out of bed.

He called to his wife, "Honey, please look outside and tell me whether the pigs are in the mud or in the grass."

"Neither," yelled his wife, "they're in the station wagon, and one of them is honking the horn."

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