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Irish Humor

• Since Irish humor developed out of the oral tradition the telling of !o"es and stories in Irish pu#s$% it is ver epiphenal in nature.

• Li"e 'e(ish humor% Irish humor developed out of pain and tragedthat came from the Irish diaspora.

• Irish humor% li"e 'e(ish humor% contains much (ordpla% and li"e'e(ish humor% much of Irish (ordpla is #ilingual and)or #icultural%relating to #oth the *aelic)Celtic and to the +nglish language andculture.

• ,here are man Irish people around the (orld (ho are tring toreesta#lish their roots% and it is the humor in Irish (ritten and oralliterature that is helping them do so.



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Irish Logic

• ,he -allhough rail(a station had t(o cloc"s that disagreed(ith each other # si minutes.

• An irate traveler as"ed a porter (hat (as the use of having t(ocloc"s if the didn/t tell the same time.

• ,he porter replied% 0And (hat (ould (e #e (anting (ith t(ocloc"s if the told the same time12

• -ased on this stor% 3artin 'oos (rote a monograph entitled%

,he Five Cloc"s descri#ing the Fro4en% Formal% Consultative%Informal% and Intimate registers of language.



,he *aeltacht5

,he *reen Areas -elo(5

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Irish Fol"lore

• Count 3ao in the *aeltacht is remote from

tourism.

•,here are the remains of prehistoric forests and fairmounds in the peat6#ogs.

• People tal" of ancestors as if the (ere neigh#ors%

and of three6hundred6ear6old events as if thehappened esterda.



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7issing the -larne Stone

• ,o "iss the -larne stone ou must clim# to the top of -larneCastle.

• In order to "iss the -larne stone% the visitor has to lie on his#ac" and #e lo(ered head do(n(ards over the edge of the

(all.

• Someone has to hold onto the an"les of the visitor so that the(on/t slip off the edge of the castle.

• It/s hard to "no( (hether "issing the stone gives someone thegift of elegance%

• 8f if the entire process is 0a #it of the #larne.2



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Irish -larne

• Irishmen have the 0gift of ga#.2

• ,his comes from "issing the -larne stone at -larne Castle inCount Cor".

• It is said that 9ueen +li4a#eth tried to get Cormac3acCarthmore occupier of -larne Castle at the time$ tosurrender his castle to the +nglish.

• He said he (ould do so% #ut he "ept giving her reasons that he

couldn/t do it et.

• ,he :ueen is said to have eclaimed% 0It/s all -larne;he sashe (ill do it% #ut he never means to do (hat he sas.2



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An 0Irish ,al"er2

• ,err <ogan on --C is an 0Irish ,al"er.2

• His language is moc"ing and self6deprecating. He

plas (ith (ords% attac"s his superiors% and 0getshis #oot in.2

• 0=ou could accuse him of reall saing ver little%

(hich again is ver Irish.2



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Irish (ords in +nglish

• -anshee fair (oman$ comes from 0#ean2 (oman$ and 0s>2 fair$

• 7eening (ailing$ comes from 0caoine2 (ail$

• *alore much$

• -rogue (ooden shoe$. ,he Irish (ere said to spea" (ith a shoe in theirmouth% hence% their 0Irish -rogue.2

• Sheila & ouse are #oth Irish (ords.

• 0Shenanigan2 comes from 0sionnachuighim2 I pla tric"s$

• 0Smithereens2 comes from 0smideirin2 a small fragment$

• 0Shant2 comes from 0sean6tigh2 old house$



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3ore Irish Influence

• ,he Irish use 0shall2 for 0(ill2

• ,he sa 0seen2 for 0sa(2

•and 0She is in the school.2

• and 0#elave% !ine% and applesass2 instead of 0#elieve%2 0!oin%2and 0applesauce.2

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And 0tree2 0airl2 and 0dat2 for 0three2 0earl2 and 0that2

• And the Irish 0ouse2 is tpical in the speech of Irish cops inNe( =or" and -oston.



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Scouse

• 3an people from Du#lin moved toLiverpool in +ngland

• ,he Irish accent of Liverpool is "no(nas Scouse and it has an adenoidal:ualit and man rising inflections.

• Scouse is the dialect of ,he -eatles.



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+nglish ?oalt in Ireland

• In @@@ Henr II and his Anglo6Norman "nightslanded in Ireland and #egan the +nglish dominationof Ireland.

• Anne% +li4a#eth I% 8liver Crom(ell & 'ames I allimposed +nglish rule over Ireland.

• Satirist Aleander Pope (rote5

– Here thou% great AnnaB <hom three realms o#e% – Dost sometimes counsel ta"e;and sometimes ,ea.



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,he -attle of the -one% @E

• In @E% 7ing <illiam III defeated the ?oman Catholic forces ofold Ireland.

• ,his gave victor to the 8range over the *reen.

• After this% the Anglo6Irish ruling class developed. It (as "no(nas the 0ascendenc.2

• ,he 0?epu#licans2 (ere not part of the 0ascendenc2 #ecausethe #elieved in the 0?epu#lic of Ireland.2

• -ut the Irish Catholics still use the cit name of Derr insteadof using the protestant name of Londonderr% as in the songentitled 0Londonderr Aire.2



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Ireland5 ,he Celtic Fringe



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Irish as a ?eceding Language



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Irish Settlements in the 0Ne( <orld2

• Ne(foundland% Canada the earliest settlement$

• -ar#ados% Carri#ean 8liver Crom(ell used it as aninternment camp for prisoners ta"en during his#attles in Ireland$

• 3ontserrat% (as "no(n as 0the emerald isle of theCari##ean.2

• Australia in @G@% E (ere Irish$



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Australia as an Irish Penal

Colon

• 8ne Irish convict girl is said to have

served her statutor seven ears and

returned to Du#lin.

• -ut she then committed another crime

in order to return to Australia at the

government/s epense.



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,he Irish Potato Famine

• Potatoes (ere the staple of the Irish diet% and

the potato crops failed for several ears.

• Hunger and hardship drove the Irish intoeile. ,he fled their homes # the millions.

• ,he (ent to +ngland% Australia & the J.S.



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Irish Diaspora



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,he Irish ?evival

• ,oda% *aelic is taught in Irish schools as a secondlanguage.

• Irish politicians are no( epected to use a 0cKpla

focal2 couple of *aelic (ords$ to revive their Celticpast.

• '. 3. Snge% Sean 8/Case% 'ames 'oce% <. -. =eatsand the ,rinit ,heatre in Du#lin are all involved in

the Irish revival.

• For eample% Snge/s Pla#o of the <estern <orld%and 'oce/s 0,he Dead2 are a#out the revival.



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Snge & the Irish ?evival

• ,o ma"e Pla#o of the <estern <orldauthentic% Snge (ould listen at a chin" inthe floor of the old <ic"lo( house andeavesdrop on (hat (as #eing said # theservant girls in the "itchen.

• Follo(ing is a snopses of the stor5

– Christ 3ahon% A Connaught man% "illed his father(ith a #lo( of a spade% and then fled to an Aranisland and thre( himself on the merc of thenatives.



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• Christ (as a 0rogue.2 +ven though a re(ard (asoffered for his capture% the natives on the island hidhim in a hole and he (as later shipped to America.

• -ut as the pla goes on% the audience comes toreali4e that the (hole stor is a #it of the #larne%

and the speech of Christ% Pegeen% and the <ido(9uin #ecome em#lematic of Irish eaggeration andstor telling.

•In fact% Christ/s father turns out to #e alive% #ut the<ido( 9uin% (ho is so involved in the stor% ma"esout that the father is mad for claiming that Christ ishis son.



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'ames 'oce

• ,he character Shem in Finnegans <a"e ta"es the+nglish language and 0smashes it up intosmithereens% and hands it #ac" and sas5 ,his is ourrevenge.2 Shem #oasts that he (ill

– 0(ipe alle english spoo"er% or multiphonia"sicall spu"ingoff the face of the erse.2

• 'ames 'oce remar"ed that if Du#lin (ere everdestroed% it could #e recreated from the pages of

his fiction.



'onathan S(ift n Du#lin @$

• S(ift detested vogue (ords% especiall (henthe crept into church.

• He said that oung preachers use all themodern terms of art% sham% #anter% mo#%#u##le% #ull% cutting% shuffling and palming.

• Compare toda/s <illiam Safire% (ho has thelargest mail #ag of the Ne( =or" ,imes.

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Irish Authors

• +dmund Spenser c@GGM6@G$ – ,he Faerie 9ueene

• 'onathan S(ift @6@MG$ – *ulliver/s ,ravels –

A 3odest Proposal

• <illiam Congreve @E6@$ – ,he <a of the <orld

• ?ichard -rinsle Sheridan @G@6@@$

– ,he ?ivals

• 8scar <ilde @GM6@EE$ – ,he Importance of -eing +arnest – ,he Picture of Dorian *ra



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• <illiam -utler =eats @G6@$ – ,reasur of Irish Poetr

• '. 3. Snge @@6@E$ – Pla#o of the <estern <orld

• *eorge -ernard Sha( @G6@GE$ – Pgmalion 3 Fair Lad

• 'ames 'oce @6@M@$ – A Portrait of the Artist as a =oung 3an – Jlsses – ,he Du#liners – Finnegans <a"e

• Samuel -ec"ett @E6@$ – <aiting for *odot

Flanner 8/Connor @G6@M$ – 0A *ood 3an is Hard to Find2



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