Not rise

16:22 Jun 10, 2020 

Thank you all.

15:58 Jun 8, 2020 

I got it. Thank you all.

15:19 Jun 8, 2020 

@Sheila Wilson but what I got is that people celebrating the life of a deceased by presuming he is not dead until 3 days (To confirm it), so they can enjoy themselves in these 3 days, but "not rise from their grave" doesn't seem relevant to the previous sentences. Thank you.

14:48 Jun 8, 2020 

It's not a "legend" at all. Whoever wrote the source text doesn't really understand "wakes". No one is "faking" death. I think your context indicates that someone was thinking of the old song "Finnegans Wake" which tells of a builder, Tim Finnegan, who fell from a ladder (because he was drunk) and "broke his skull" so everyone thought he was dead and brought him home to have a "wake"for him. A fight broke out at the wake and some whiskey spilt over Tim at which stage he sat up in the bed, not dead at all! James Joyce used this song as the basis for his book of the same name

14:48 Jun 8, 2020 

I agree with Sheila; if you replace the "and not rise" by "partying with friends [without rising] from their grave" it is perhaps easier to understand.

08:21 Jun 8, 2020 

It says "no Irishman can ... not rise from the dead". If you remove the double negative, it says that if you spend days partying in the presence of an Irishman (in a coffin), that person is not going to be able to resist the temptation to join the party if he can.

05:12 Jun 8, 2020 

There have been many cases in the past where scratches have been found on the inside of coffin lids, suggesting that people had been buried alive (presumably, by mistake!)
This is said to have happened in ancient times, when Alexander the Great appeared to be dead, but his corpse didn't start to decompose until some days later, suggesting perhaps he had one of these rare illnesses where the body appears to "shut down", but doesn't actually die.
This is the reason why many cultures wait a short time, just to make sure the person is really dead; in EN, this used to be referred to as the 'wake' — just in case the deceased did!
So we may talk about 'rising from the dead' (as Jesus is said to have done) — here, in a humorous way, the person is suggesting that for an Irishman, all that whiskey and celebration would be too much of a temptation for him.
The idea of faking his own death (although not unheard of!) is really just to make the joke work.

02:42 Jun 8, 2020 

The person is talking about a legend to sooth his friend after the death of one of his colleagues, so he invented or brought up this legend.

01:59 Jun 8, 2020 

I think your text is not quite right. It's not that they're faking their deaths, it's a belief that for three days they're not totally dead and could come back to life. You can't fake your death - your pulse stops and your body gets cold.
http://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0415/1130559-ireland-funer...