And watching TV. We like several shows on the Irish TV channel, TG4. This channel does more original programming than the flagship channel, RTE1. There's lots of music, documentaries, and performances. They also show US shows dubbed in Irish. Wherever you are in the world, you can watch most of them.
The online or socially-distanced Fleadh 2020 is available for everyone who wants to sample the best in Irish traditional music. We loved Crain na hÉireann (Trees of Ireland), and there're a few other nature shows there too. I haven't gotten around to An Baille, a documentary series about borderlands. I like the presenter, Síle Nic Chonaonaigh, and would watch anything she did.
There's one show called An Gaván Saor, which I think is the name of the pub it's filmed in. The show is just old men telling funny stories. In the bottom right corner you can turn on subtitles.
There's one show called An Gaván Saor, which I think is the name of the pub it's filmed in. The show is just old men telling funny stories. In the bottom right corner you can turn on subtitles.
I'll retell a few of them to give you a flavor, but they really are funnier when you hear them told, even in a language you don't understand.
When I was young, we lived beside a small farmer named Big Breakfast Taidhgín, because he used to eat a massive breakfast. He’d start by drinking a pint of boiled water, then he’d have a pint of orange juice then a huge bowl of porridge with four spoons of honey. And after that he’d have a fry: two fried eggs, sausages, slices of bacon, and four big slices of brown bread, two cups of tea and then he’d be ready to go to the creamery. He’d put the two buckets of milk into the Morris Minor and off he’d go.
One morning as he was on his way to the creamery, he was met on the road by a member of the traveling community who wanted a lift to town. He stopped the car and your man got into the car and they started talking. Your man had an awful urge to fart because of all he ate. But he couldn’t do that in front of the traveller. As he turned around a corner, he saw a load of silage. He put the window down. And when the Morris Minor was full of the smell of the silage, he let the fart rip and immediately felt relieved.
He said to the traveller, “Doesn’t the silage smell terrible this morning?”
The traveller said, “you must have eaten a ton of it, Sir!”
There was a parish priest who was on his deathbed. He asked the housekeeper to ring the local accountant and solicitor so they could be by his side before died. So she did, and the two men were honored to be at the side of a priest's deathbed. They were a long time waiting. No one was talking. The solicitor said to the priest, "why did you ask us to be here?” The priest opened one eye and looked at the solicitor and said, "When our Savior died, he had a thief on each side of him, and I want to die the same."
There was a young lad who went into a barber shop. The barber was working on a customer when the boy walked in. The barber said to the customer, “Do you see that young lad? He’s must be the thickest boy in Ireland.”
“Why,” said the customer, who knew the little boy’s parents well, and they were clever.
“Wait and see,” said the barber. He put his hand in his pocket and he took out 5€ and 2€. He put €5 in one hand and €2 in the other. He put his hands out towards the little boy. The little boy took the €2 and went out the door with a smile. “I told you so,” said the barber.
That shocked your man. When he was finished he paid the barber and went outside. Who was outside only the little boy. He called the young boy over. The boy had a big ice cream cone. He had bought it using the €2. “What happened to you earlier? Why didn’t you take the €5?" he asked. “That’s a lot more than €2.”
“I know well it is," said the young boy. I’ve been going in there every Saturday for the past two months. I look at the sports magazine and so on. He does the same trick every Saturday. I’ve already gotten €20 in total. But the day I take the €5, the jig will be up."
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