From top: today’s Junior Cert English Paper 1 today; Aoife Dooley
Illustrator and comedian Aoife Dooley tweetz:
Woke up to find out that I was on the junior cert English paper today what the hell. I’m now getting messages from 15 year olds asking why I hate the bus. I just want to make it clear, I don’t, I just hate people…
UPDATE:
Me walking to the shop hoping someone doesn’t recognise me
and fuck a sausage roll at my head pic.twitter.com/aEDcWjTFNo— Aoife Dooley (@Aoife_Dooley) June 5, 2019
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I bet the standard of writing in the ordinary level exam is better than the standard in that article. If that’s what’s being put on papers now, what hope is there?
Poor students. Probably would have ‘wished for the Cloths of Heaven’ by Yeats over that claptrap.
I do love that poem
Valparaiso
Tháinig long ó Valparaiso,
Scaoileadh téad a seol sa chuan,
Chuir a hainm dom i gcuimhne
Ríocht na Gréine, Tír na mBua.
“Gluais,’ ar sí, ‘ar thuras fada,
Liom ó scamall is ó cheo,
Tá fé shleasaibh gorm Andes
Cathair scáfar, glé mar sheod.”
Bhíos óg is ní imeoinnse,
Am an dóchais, tus mo shaoil,
Chreideas fós go raibh i ndán dom
Iontaisí na ndán ‘s na scéal.
Ghluais an long thar lintibh mara,
Fad ó shin is a crann mar ór,
Scríobh a scéal ar phár na hoíche,
Ard i rian na réaltean mór.
Fillfidh sí aris chugam áfach;
Chífead cathair bhán fén sléibh,
Le hais mara na síochána –
Creidim fós beagnach, a Dhé.
This is the kind of drivel you get from pub bores and Irish Times columnists.
Nice easy Irish!! Who wrote that? I forgot how much I used to enjoy Irish poetry.
I visited Neruda’s house in Valparaiso. It’s a funny ole town.
Nice easy Irish!! Who wrote that? I forgot how much I used to enjoy Irish poetry.
I visited Neruda’s house in Valparaiso. It’s a funny ole town.
Balls. That was in reply to Realpolithicks.
The only Irish i know is
POG MA THOIN
lol