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3/23/2007
11:29:39 am EDT
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After Reverence For St. Patrick’s Day, A Taste Of Irish Curses
Author: John A. Blankenship Source: Register-Herald (WV)
Title: AFTER REVERENCE FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY, A TASTE OF IRISH CURSES
Almost everyone knows about the Irish blessings. May the wind always be at your back, and may you be in heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.
But there’s a darker side to the coin. The Irish curse. The malediction is as Irish as cable-knit sweaters, soda bread and Guinness Stout.
We’re not speaking here of the mundane ill-tempered yelp of profanity one hears on, say, the thoroughfares during rush hour or at the local pub.
That is to the true Irish curse what a Bud Light is to a Guinness: a poor, pale imitation.
A real Irish curse rolls off the tongue with the eloquence and momentum of poetry. It is a marvel of compact expression, the equivalent of a Japanese haiku.
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| May The Road Be Rocky... | Mar 25th. at 9:55:29 pm EDT
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Mothrae (Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
Gaelige (Irish Gaelic) has no literal words to match those English cuss words that can almost curl your hair, but the cursing that is done is creative, much as Italian cursing is...where to go, how to get there, what you can do once there, etc.
Like those listed, most are rather benign, until they sink in: May you fall and never get up (drop dead) , May you leave and never return (about the same thing) and other similar comments. The blessings far outweigh the curses.
Slan agus beannacht leat (goodbye and blessings be upon you)
Moth
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| Cursing Like The Irish :-) | Mar 24th. at 7:10:19 pm EDT
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Maeve Weaver (New Rochelle, New York) - Email Me
Many moons ago, I worked in the New York city subways, in the IRT Division. The joke among us Emerald society members was the IRT stood for Irish Run This!
One day a Transportation supervisor from another division did something monumentally stupid on our side of the railroad, during the height of the evening rush hour. When the Chief Trainmaster got the guy on the horn, he let it rip in true Irish-Run-This! style, to wit:
"I do not *ever* want to even *hear* about you setting foot in my division ever again. And. If. You. Do... you *will* find yourself so far down on the Railroad Porters' seniority roster that God Almighty wouldn't be able to find you with a radio telescope!!"
Needless to say, Mr. Hot Shot promptly disappeared and never showed his face on the territory again :-)
Ahhh, those were the days...!
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| Weaponizing | Mar 24th. at 1:00:39 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me - Web
"Belief in the power of the word was unique in Irish society."
A Hare Krishna was just telling me, that Krishna, legendary Chaplain, used a Sonic Weapon against some Behema fellow, and I wonder if this was something similar to how Taliesin struck the chains from his father.
"And the Devil figures in dozens of Irish curses, from the stark (the Devil swallow him sideways!) to the elaborate: May the Devil damn you to the stone of dirges, or to the well of ashes seven miles below hell, and may the Devil break your bones!"
For Judeo-Christian Fundamentalists, "May the Devil make your bones into the finest of flutes, to give music lessons to the Poor and Lonely."
Wikipedia has an interesting artical on AEsyr, connecting them to the Hindu Asura, and the Zoroastrian Ahura. It also connects Vanir to Alfar, leaving me to wonder if Tal Afar has ought to do with the War of Milk, and the founding of Asgard. There was never anything unholy in the AEsyr and Devils, many of whom are Christian Saints, but the errors of Worship should never have been inherited by Jesus or Mohammed, where they strictly prohibited them.
I'll have to update my blog address, I seem to connect to a specific date, rather than a weblog...
Arawn
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| Okay.... | Mar 23rd. at 3:42:15 pm EDT
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Fraoch (Shelby, North Carolina) - Email Me
What was the title o' that book again...?
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| Cute | Mar 23rd. at 11:57:15 am EDT
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Sea Raven (New Haven, Connecticut) - Email Me
An entertaining read on what has otherwise turned out to be "one of those days."
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