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The Weather
Basic IrishIt is that time of the year once more. When the parents are eager for school to begin and the children would rather not, thank you very much. This lesson focuses on words and phrases related to education and which now includes additions and modifications.
Word: Education
Irish: Oideachas
Pronunciation: Eh-djeh-khuss
Word: School
Irish: Scoil
Pronunciation: Skull
Links2.Irish president declines invite to NI centenary service
The service is being held in Armagh city at the end of October.
Mr Higgins' non-attendance has been criticised by unionist politicians, who have asked whether it is an "official snub" of centenary events.
A spokesman for the president said he was not in a position to attend.
It is understood he had been expected at the event.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-58577904
I don’t blame him—Russ
‘A love letter to Irish food and hospitality’: 29 awards to people and businesses across the country
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/georgina-campbell-awards-2021-ireland-s-best-restaurants-and-hotels-revealed-1.4673992
4. Statue of Roger Casement installed at redeveloped Dun Laoghaire baths
A more than 3 metre tall statue of Irish revolutionary Roger Casement was today lifted to its permanent home along the south Dublin coast.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/statue-of-roger-casement-installed-at-redeveloped-dun-laoghaire-baths-1.4673958
I love this kind of story—Russ
5. Johnson’s ‘stupid’ Northern Ireland-Scotland tunnel to be scrapped under spending review
A tunnel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and a scheme that backs unemployed people to start their own companies have fallen victim to a crackdown by the British government’s finance ministry as it grapples with self-imposed public spending limits.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/johnson-s-stupid-northern-ireland-scotland-tunnel-to-be-scrapped-under-spending-review-1.4673084
Boris is starting to remind me of Trump—Russ
6. Ireland shows independence can work, Sturgeon tells SNP conference
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned that Boris Johnson’s government will use Brexit to weaken the case for independence. But she cited Ireland and other small European Union member states as evidence that independence can work for a country like Scotland.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/ireland-shows-independence-can-work-sturgeon-tells-snp-conference-1.46728667. Ireland’s oldest woman Nancy Stewart welcomed home son she hadn’t seen during the pandemic shortly before she died aged 107
The heartbroken granddaughter and “best friend” of one of Ireland's oldest women said her grandmother died peacefully at home, after being reunited with her son who hadn't been home for two years due to Covid-19 restrictions.QUOTES, TOASTS , CURSES AND BLESSINGSFather Edward J. Flanagan who was born in Co. Roscommon on July 13, 1886 and founded Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska in 1921.
A BIT OF THE WITJ.P. Donleavy - born April April 23, 1926
JOKE OF THE MONTHAiofe thinks this all sounds a little fishy but being a good wife she does exactly what her husband asked. The following weekend he comes home a little tired but otherwise looking good. The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish? He says, "Yes! Lot's of trout, some salmon, and a few pike. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?"
"I did, Sean; they're in your tackle box.”{
DID YOU KNOW1. Singer, Eyna's real name is Eithne Ní Bhraonáin
That’s Eyna Brennan—she started with the musical group ‘Clannad’—Russ
2. In 1931 Ernest Walton, who was born in Dungraven, Co. Waterford, split the atom for the first time? This scientific landmark was achieved with an accelerator built to his own design. Walton and his partner John Cockcroft received the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for their efforts.
3. Four Irish writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature? G. Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney
Just think what the loss would be if the Irish hadn’t adopted English—Russ
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So there you have it until we write again - sometime in October.In Celtic culture, the new moon was greeted thus:
May thy light be fair to me.
May thy course be smooth to me.
If good to me is thy beginning,
Seven times better be thine end,
Thou fair moon of the seasons,
Thou great lamp of grace.
He Who created thee
Created me likewise;
He Who gave thee weight and light
Gave to me life and death,
And the joy of the seven satisfactions,
Thou great lamp of grace,
Thou fair moon of the seasons.
The Book
Potion, pope and perfidy
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LEAVE 'EM LAUGHINGIs it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
What do chickens think we taste like?
What do people in China call their good plates?
What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why are there Interstates in Hawaii?
Why are there flotation devices in the seats of planes instead of parachutes?
Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations where smoking is prohibited?
Have you ever imagined a world without hypothetical situations?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?
If a firefighter fights fire and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight?
If a cow laughs, does milk come out of her nose?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of a drive-up ATM?
Why is it that when you transport something by car it is called shipment, but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
Last Words
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