I started Irish Around The World back in 2015 and have been sending out my weekly dose of Irish every Friday to thousands of people just like you. I share Irish jokes, Irish heritage, Irish poetry, Celtic Symbols, how to send money to Ireland and even a weekly funny video.
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Irish Apple Cake Recipe: The Warm Bramley Bake You Drown in Custard
A proper Irish apple cake recipe in metric and US cups: a soft sponge baked around sharp Bramley apples, with a buttery crumble top and a real egg custard to…
Full Irish Breakfast: What Goes on the Plate and How to Get It All Hot at Once
The full Irish breakfast explained: rashers, sausages, black and white pudding, eggs, grilled tomato, mushrooms and soda bread, plus the baked bean debate, boxty and the Ulster fry with its…
Boxty Recipe: The Irish Potato Pancake That Came With a Marriage Warning
A proper pan boxty recipe in metric and US measures: grated raw potato squeezed dry, mashed potato, flour and buttermilk, cooked on a griddle. Then tips on squeezing and griddle…
Irish Wedding Traditions: Strawboys, Shrove Weddings and the ‘Old’ Customs That Aren’t
Irish wedding traditions, sorted honestly into old, borrowed and new: Shrove weddings and Skellig lists, matchmakers and the fortune, strawboys in straw disguises, cake broken over the bride’s head, the…
Anam Cara Meaning: How Ireland’s Soul Friend Went From Confessor to Soulmate
Anam cara is Irish for soul friend. Here’s what anam and cara mean, how to say and spell it (anamchara, m’anamchara, never mo anam cara), the soul friends and confessors…
Tuatha Dé Danann: How Ireland’s Old Gods Lost a War and Became the Fairy Folk
The Tuatha Dé Danann are the godlike people of medieval Irish legend. Here is what the name means (and the debate over Danu), how the Book of Invasions brings them…
Irish Grace Before Meals: Table Blessings in Irish and English, and Where They Really Come From
Irish grace before meals, in Irish and English with plain pronunciations: the five loaves blessing Douglas Hyde printed in 1906, Beannaigh sinn (Bless us, O Lord in Irish), the grace…
The Aran Sweater: Its Real History, the Drowned Fisherman Myth and What the Stitches Mean
The Aran sweater is younger than its legends. Here’s how knitters on the Aran Islands and along Ireland’s west coast created the cabled geansaí Árann in the early 20th century,…
Irish Soda Bread Recipe: The 4-Ingredient Loaf With a Cross to Keep the Fairies Away
A proper Irish soda bread recipe with four ingredients (flour, bread soda, salt and buttermilk) in metric and US cups, plus brown bread, spotted dog and griddle farl variations, troubleshooting,…
I Love You in Irish: How to Say It, 27 Pet Names and the Film That Misspelled One
The usual way to say I love you in Irish is tá grá agam duit, literally “there is love at me for you”. Here’s how to say it to one…
Irish Funeral Blessings and Prayers: Words of Comfort in English and Irish, and Their True Origins
Irish funeral blessings, prayers and readings, with what they mean, how to say them and where they really come from: why “May the road rise to meet you” is read…
Irish Wedding Blessings, Toasts and Readings: What’s Really Irish and How to Say It
Irish wedding blessings, toasts and readings with an honest note on where each comes from: the 1930s folklore toasts to health and long life, the famous English verses (and which…
Irish Halloween Games: Snap Apple, Burning Nuts and the Old Spells to See Your Future Spouse
The old Irish Halloween games, from snap apple and apple ducking to burning two named nuts on the fire, the blindfold saucers of water, clay and a ring, egg whites…
Colcannon Recipe: The Irish Halloween Mash That Hides Your Fortune
A proper Irish colcannon recipe, with metric and US measures: floury potatoes, kale or cabbage, scallions, hot milk and plenty of butter. Then how to hide a Halloween charm safely,…
Bram Stoker: The Bedridden Dublin Boy Who Grew Up to Write Dracula
Bram Stoker couldn’t stand until he was about seven, became athletics champion of Dublin University, spent over a decade in the civil service at Dublin Castle and reviewed plays unpaid…
Stingy Jack: The Irishman Who Tricked the Devil and Gave the Jack-o’-Lantern Its Name
Stingy Jack outwitted the Devil and ended up shut out of Heaven and Hell, wandering with a light. Here is the 1836 Dublin Penny Journal tale, an 1851 poem that…
Samhain: The Night the Fairy Mounds Opened and How It Became Halloween
Samhain (SOW-in) is the old Irish festival that began winter on 1 November, and still the Irish word for November. Here’s how to say it, what the medieval tales say…
The Táin: How a Royal Bedtime Row Over a Bull Started Ireland’s Greatest Epic
The Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the great epic of Ireland’s Ulster Cycle. Here it is retold from the early translations: Medb and Ailill’s pillow talk…
Hy-Brasil: The Phantom Island Off Ireland That Mapmakers Drew for 500 Years
Hy-Brasil, Í Bhreasail in Irish, is the phantom island said to rise off Ireland’s west coast once every seven years. Here’s the real story: the round island on sea charts…
Kilmainham Gaol: Dublin’s Rebel Prison, a Candlelit Wedding and the Stonebreakers’ Yard
Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin held prisoners from 1796 to 1924: debtors, Famine-era thieves, children, convicts bound for Australia, and rebels from Robert Emmet and Charles Stewart Parnell to the 1916…
Most Popular Posts
These are some of the most popular blog posts on Irish Around The World over the years.
Olympic Skater ‘Irish Dances’ Across Ice, Brings Entire Stadium To Their Feet
Be prepared to be blown away by U.S. national champion figure skater Jason Brown, an incredible Olympic skater.
Discover The Sexiest Accents Of 2021
Just where does the Irish accent rank in the sexiest accent?
Adele’s “Hello” Sung In Irish Is Absolutely Breathtaking(Including Lyrics)
Did you ever stop and wonder what Adele’s “Hello” sung in Irish would sound like? Probably not!
The students from Coláiste Lurgan, in Galway, have come up with this fabulous cover titled Hello – le Adele as Gaeilge