Here is a bouquet of touching, funny, and truthful Irish proverbs about the creative power of praise, and three poems – one from the 11th century (though attributed to a 6th century Irish saint), one from the 17th century, and a ravishing folk poem from the 18th century. I hope it puts you in the mood to praise everything and everyone in your life!
SOURCE OF TODAY’S POEMS AND DICTIONARY
“Invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (ascribed to Colum Cille” in Early Irish Lyrics, translated and edited by Gerard Murphy
“Hail, Herring, You’ve Come!” in An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed, translated and edited by Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella
“She’s the Blackberry Flower” in An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed, translated and edited by Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella
Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla – An Irish-English Dictionary, compiled and edited by Reverend Patrick S. Dinneen, M.A. (1927)