Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’

With all the negativity about the beloved isle of Eire I just thought I’d post two positive videos.  Sure they are full of corporate stylings, but they still make me feel positive about the future.

FontLeRoi sez:

Bula bos a Holbrook for throwing a ray of sunshine into the gray day. I was fascinated to learn that Botox was made in Westport Co. Mayo and now is being used to treat people who suffer from chronic migraines, hardly the original vanity application it was designed for, so good on yee Westport!

Recorded by Neil Hannon (of Divine Comedy fame) and Thomas Walsh in their incarnation as the Duckworth Lewis Method. Here are the memorable lyrics. And if you don’t know who Jedward are, well get thee to the interweb to study your Irish history!  Video is courtesy of tightropenet on YouTube, thank you good fellow.

Ireland, Ireland!
Ireland, Ireland, damp sod of earth
lost on the surf of the North Atlantic.
Ireland, Ireland, mountains and mist,
Vodka and chips, it’s so romantic.

Joyce and Heaney, Beckett and Wilde,
Bill O’Herlihy, Dunphy and Giles,
Evans, Hewson, Mullen and Clayton,
Westlife and Jedward the pride of our nation!

Ireland, Ireland, once we were poor,
Then we were wealthy; now we are poor again.
Cows and horses, donkeys and sheep,
Munster and Leinster, Connacht and ******.

Chinese, Polish, Africans too,
Doing the jobs we don’t want to do.
An Irish stew, a nation of nations,
Working for peanuts in petrol stations.

Ireland, Ireland, you are the best
Place to the west of Wales and Scotland.
Sometimes it’s heaven, sometimes it’s hell,
But I’d rather be Irish than anything else.”

WRITTEN BY ‘DUCKWORTH & LEWIS’ c.2010

FontLeRoi sez:

That’s Fabulouso Holbrook, I love how he speeds up “poor again”, but what about the people of Donegal?