Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️ 🎄
Dec 17, 2021 5:01 pm
Hi there,
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, December 17th 2021...
Welcome new subscribers! Next weeks weekly dose of Irish will be packed with Christmas facts, jokes and more as it will be sent out on Christmas eve.
*Irish Christmas blessing* - "May the songs of the season rise to greet you. May the winter wind be always at your back.
May the frost shimmer soft upon your fields. And, until we meet again, May the love of God shine warm upon your home."
*Irish Christmas Fact* - You may not know it, but on the 26th of December, Ireland has a public holiday called St Stephen's day. One of the busiest days of the year. Fun fact my birthday is on the 27th of December; I guess that is why my name is Stephen, haha.
It is 8 days until Christmas and 90 days until St Patrick's day.
- I updated the top 10 Guinness drinking countries in the world. Want to know what number one is? Read the post here.
This week's posts:
☘️️ A Politically Correct Christmas Poem by Harvey Ehrlich
Ah, sure, it tis but a few days until Christmas and I found this great version of a politically correct Christmas.
It is quite an old poem that has been …
The post A Politically Correct Christmas Poem by Harvey Ehrlich appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Incredible Four-year-old Cork Girl Singing 'Danny Boy' Goes Viral
Being from Cork myself, I always enjoy it when someone makes a splash on social media.
Just like the video of Cork girl who played Irish music to these cows.
The post-Incredible Four-year-old Cork Girl Singing 'Danny Boy' Goes Viral appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ A Prayer For My Daughter, By W. B. Yeats – A Top 100 Irish Poem
This week it is number 99 on the top 100 Irish poems list.
And yet again, W.
B Yeats makes an appearance.
"A Prayer for my Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written …
The post A Prayer For My Daughter, By W.B. Yeats – A Top 100 Irish Poem appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ Top 10 Guinness Drinking Countries In The World
On my other site for Irish moving to Australia, I posted a much-needed update to the world's top 5 Guinness drinking countries.
But I was curious to find out the …
The post Top 10 Guinness Drinking Countries In The World appeared first on Irish Around The World.
☘️ 93-Year-Old Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988
I hope you have been enjoying my Irish history section every week.
Over the weeks I have had everything from a 100-year Irish doctor to Mel Gibson.
The post-93-Year-Old Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988 appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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This week's Irish joke
Paddy was minding his own business driving back to Limerick from Kilkee in County Clare. As he entered the townland of Lissycasey, a garda on a motorcycle, brandishing a speed gun, waves Paddy to a stop. "You were speeding," says the Guard. "Doing thirty-three in a thirty zone." "Eegit guard," says Paddy ", I didn't see no sign.
It must be covered by the hedges." "Hedges or no hedges, I'm giving you a ticket and a hundred euro fine. Now show me your tax, license, insurance and registration documents." "Shur, I don't have any tax, license, registration, insurance and shur; the car isn't even mine.
It belongs to the guy in the boot; I hit him over the head with my revolver when I stole his car." "Jaysus!" Said the Guard as he backed away and jumped into the nearest ditch while frantically calling for back-up on his radio. Within ten minutes back-up consisting of two unmarked and three patrol cars had arrived.
A helicopter hovered overhead while a nervous superintendent wearing a bullet-proof vest approached Paddy's car, where Paddy was nonchalantly listing to
classical music on the radio. "Is this your car?" asks the superintendent. 'Tis to be sure." Answers Paddy — all respectful like. "And do you have tax, insurance, registration and a license?" "I do indeed," says Paddy handing them over. "And do you have a gun and a body in the boot?" "Jaysus, No!" Says Paddy, "Who told you that pack of lies?" "Why he did, that garda over there." "Well, that gobshite liar," says Paddy. "I bet he told you I was speeding as well."
So what is this week's top Irish poem?
A Prayer For My Daughter, By W. B. Yeats
This week it is number 99 on the top 100 Irish poems list. And yet again, W. B Yeats makes an appearance. "A Prayer for my Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
In this great poem, Yeats speaks about his family. He demonstrates his concern and anxiety over his daughter's future well-being and prospects, Anne.
What I like about this poem is that Yeats describes the joys and struggles of parenthood.
He also talks about Irish politics as he regularly does and Yeats thoughts on his past. I think one of his longer poems should be rated a bit higher in the top 100 Irish poems list. But that could be just my personal experience reading the poem. Either way, enjoy this tremendous Irish poem.
A Prayer for my Daughter
W. B. Yeats – 1865-1939
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory's wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind,
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of the great gloom that is in my mind.
I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Helen being chosen found life flat and dull
And later had much trouble from a fool,
While that great Queen, that rose out of the spray,
Being fatherless could have her way
Yet chose a bandy-leggèd smith for man.
It's certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.
In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful;
Yet many, that have played the fool
For beauty's very self, has charm made wise,
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
May she become a flourishing hidden tree
That all her thoughts may like the linnet be,
And have no business but dispensing round
Their magnanimities of sound,
Nor but in merriment begin a chase,
Nor but in merriment a quarrel.
O may she live like some green laurel
Rooted in one dear perpetual place.
My mind, because the minds that I have loved,
The sort of beauty that I have approved,
Prosper but little, has dried up of late,
Yet knows that to be choked with hate
May well be of all evil chances chief.
If there's no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.
Have I not seen the loveliest woman born
Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn,
Because of her opinionated mind
Barter that horn and every good
By quiet natures understood
For an old bellows full of angry wind?
Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
And may her bridegroom bring her to a house
Where all's accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Ceremony's a name for the rich horn,
And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
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