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The Counties of Ireland
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This is humour. I have no intent to insult any of the 26 ROI counties. Unless you're not from Cork. Then you're fair game.
Carlow = Mad for sugar beet, can't get enough of it.
Hobbies: Growing sugar beet.
Cavan = filthy, ignorant hillbillies, tight. Hobbies:
discovering IRA ammo dumps and knitting black balaclavas.
Clare = fiddle-playing charming people and, more recently, fine footballers.
Hobbies:
Falling into pot-holes and being
never heard from ever again, setting up golf courses in their back lawns.
Cork = the loveable rogues of Ireland. Here for everyone else's entertainment.
Hobbies:
Milking cows, being European capital of culture 2005 but not knowing what exactly that means or how they got it boy?
Donegal = away in their own world up there, not much known about this eccentric type.
Hobbies:
Stripping the Irish coast of fishies, running back up to their corner of the island and blaming the spanish....aye twas the spanish!!
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Opinion by
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Be thankful. We have to learn this!
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Some of you who have ever been to Ireland will know that a lot of Gaelic is to be found. And it can confuse and frighten even the most seasoned traveller. Even if they do possess a guidebook and an Irish-_______ dictionary.
So that’s where Dazls Guide To Really Really Really Really Obscure Irish comes in.
Céili- If you see a sign advertising a céili, and you are in a mood to boogie, take note. A céili is a dance- but not just any old type of dance. It’s traditional Irish dancing, where amateurs and professionals can dance and hear traditional music at the same time. Popular dances include ‘The Haymakers Jig’, ‘The Siege of Ennis’ and ‘Shoe the Donkey’. Be prepared though- wear comfortable clothing and shoes, because this is very energetic and you’ll be sweating buckets by the end of the first dance. Most céilis are quite open to beginners, so go along for a laugh.
Craic- There are several uses of this word, so remember to look at it in the proper context.
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Opinion by
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6 months ago
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The Irish National Anthem
Amhrán na bhFiann - Irish
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CURFA (refrain, chorus) :
Sinne Fianna Fáil
Atá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buion dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn,
Fé mhóid bheith saor.
Sean tír ár sinsear feasta
Ní fhágfar fé'n tiorán ná fé'n tráill
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
Le gunni scréach fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.
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Soldier's Song - English Translation:
(Should never be sang in English)
Soldiers are we
Whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
From a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sire land
Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
Tonight we man the "varna-bwail" (gap of danger)
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal
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