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No need for four-leaf clovers here—you'll feel lucky simply from this list of the 140 best Irish blessings and favorite Irish sayings! Related: The Best Quotes for St. Patrick's Day. 140 Best ...
Some of the most famous Irish sayings are blessings or short poems that commonly convey messages of hope and goodwill. You've almost certainly read this classic blessing before: May the road rise ...
Irish blessings and proverbs May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold and the end of your rainbows, may you find a pot of gold. A good friend is like a four-leaf clover.
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire is an Irish keen composed in the main by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a member of the Gaelic gentry in the 18th century, who was born in County Kerry and lived near Macroom, County Cork, after her marriage to Art. The caoineadh has been described as the greatest poem written in ...
Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem:
"The Holland Handkerchief" – an Irish version of The Suffolk Miracle (Child #272), sung by County Leitrim singer Mary McPartlan, Connie Dover and others [62] [63] "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" – translation of a 17th-century Irish-language poem, "Táim Sínte ar do Thuama", first recorded by Philip King, later by Sinéad O'Connor. [64]
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. Celebrate Irish pride with this collection of short, funny and catchy St. Patrick's Day quotes on luck, beer, gold and more.
"Mná na hÉireann" (English: Women of Ireland) is a poem written by Irish poet Peadar Ó Doirnín (1700–1769), most famous as a song, and especially since set to an air composed by Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971). Peadar Ó Doirnín lived in Forkhill in south Armagh, Ireland and is buried in Urnaí graveyard nearby in County Louth.