I've cybered myself over to Donegal, Ireland tonight... - Page 5

AussiePam · 09-20-2009, 05:02 PM

I have never been to Donegal!! sigh.. Would love to go there. Got as far as the top of Galway, but no further... sigh. My first Irish language teacher was the cultural attache to the Irish Embassy in Canberra and was from Donegal - we only had her for a few months, but I guarantee all of her students still have a slight Donegal burr.. beautiful accent. Harsh in one sense but lilting at the same time.

pinkchick · 09-20-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by AussiePam

I have never been to Donegal!! sigh.. Would love to go there. Got as far as the top of Galway, but no further... sigh. My first Irish language teacher was the cultural attache to the Irish Embassy in Canberra and was from Donegal - we only had her for a few months, but I guarantee all of her students still have a slight Donegal burr.. beautiful accent. Harsh in one sense but lilting at the same time.

Donegal is heaven on earth. I love it

Clodhopper · 09-20-2009, 07:04 PM

Oh my! I had no idea Arlo Guthrie was still going!

I remember hearing "Alice's Restaurant." Long after the event, but I was still impressed.

AussiePam · 09-20-2009, 11:29 PM

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Exceptin Alice....

Kathy Ellen · 10-24-2009, 03:07 PM

The turfmen of Donegal digging the turf near my Dad's auld home in Gweedore, Ireland.

This looked like my Auntie Ellen's turf fire in her wee cottage.

AussiePam · 10-24-2009, 04:25 PM

Patrick Kavanagh was from Co Monaghan, I think - but here, for you, Kathy, is my favourite poem of his:

Shancoduff

My black hills have never seen the sun rising,
Eternally they look north towards Armagh.
Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been
Incurious as my black hills that are happy
When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel.

My hills hoard the bright shillings of March
While the sun searches in every pocket.
They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn
With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves
In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage.

The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff
While the cattle-drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush
Look up and say: "Who owns them hungry hills
That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken?
A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor."
I hear, and is my heart not badly shaken?

-Patrick Kavanagh

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AussiePam Senior Member Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 8,818	Re: I've cybered myself over to Donegal, Ireland tonight... I have never been to Donegal!! sigh.. Would love to go there. Got as far as the top of Galway, but no further... sigh. My first Irish language teacher was the cultural attache to the Irish Embassy in Canberra and was from Donegal - we only had her for a few months, but I guarantee all of her students still have a slight Donegal burr.. beautiful accent. Harsh in one sense but lilting at the same time.
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AussiePam Senior Member Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 8,818	Re: I've cybered myself over to Donegal, Ireland tonight... Patrick Kavanagh was from Co Monaghan, I think - but here, for you, Kathy, is my favourite poem of his: Shancoduff My black hills have never seen the sun rising, Eternally they look north towards Armagh. Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been Incurious as my black hills that are happy When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel. My hills hoard the bright shillings of March While the sun searches in every pocket. They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage. The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff While the cattle-drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush Look up and say: "Who owns them hungry hills That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken? A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor." I hear, and is my heart not badly shaken? -Patrick Kavanagh
Local Time: 12:11 AM Local Date: 11-22-2009

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