Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[keltic63]

a friend and myself, celebrating at school today. I'm doing some Irish music with my students today and tomorrow.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! (just a little early...)

[Gennee]

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!



Gennee

[Zerbie]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!


My (half Irish) dad just reminded me that Pat's Day is tomorrow - he's going to an Irish dinner party. Gave me inspiration. I have a lot of free time tomorrow, so I'm going to make potato bread and cabbage soup. Celebrate my part Irishness.

Celebrate the day!

[BruceChris]

There is a rumor out there that Barak O'Bama is part Irish. Still waiting for word on that one.

BC

[andrewlittle]

This is a milemarker St Patrick's Day for me.

First, this is probably the closest I will come to seeing Steve in drag.

Second, this St Patrick's Day marks the beginning of my 40th year in the United States, and I'm still fighting extradition.

[Zerbie]

Originally Posted by BruceChris

There is a rumor out there that Barak O'Bama is part Irish. Still waiting for word on that one.

BC

I heard that, too. Apparently, some ancestor on his mom's side?

O'bama, haha!

All my in-laws are major Obama freaks -- Obama stickers, Obama buttons and shirts. They just gave us the Obama teddy bear.

[RedneckDyke]

Begorrah tis indeed saint paddy's day. oh tis grand!!!!!
I did my saint pat's partying early this year. A few weeks ago I went to a Wolfe Tones concert. That was awesome. They played all this old rebel music and I got really drunk and sang really loud. Me and everyone else who was there.

[Rick336]

Originally Posted by RedneckDyke

Begorrah tis indeed saint paddy's day. oh tis grand!!!!!
I did my saint pat's partying early this year. A few weeks ago I went to a Wolfe Tones concert. That was awesome. They played all this old rebel music and I got really drunk and sang really loud. Me and everyone else who was there.

Sounds like fun.

Rick

[Jennifer5]

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

As for Obama being Irish, this is all I've heard on that topic.


In case that doesn't work for you here's another link.

[tdogg]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Have a great day! I'm just a little bit Irish, just enough to look good in green and like potatoes and cabbage. Not too big on the corned beef tho.

[Emproph]

My mother sent this to me a few weeks ago, saying:

I found this quite interesting based on your story of being on a ship in a former life.

As mentioned below, Patrick was apparently kidnapped by pirates at age 16 and then sold as a slave.

My memory was of having been a cabin boy, about 10 yrs old and raped by the sailors, as no women were allowed on the ships. I didn’t identify with the kidnapping part at first, but looking back on that memory, I always wondered where my parents were to have allowed me to be in that situation. So now the kidnapping part makes more sense, or perhaps I was sold by my parents due to extreme poverty. I’ll have to do more research.

On a lighter note, when I was growing up (this life), the only thing I knew of St. Patrick was that he drove the snakes out of Ireland. I finally asked someone about what the big deal with that was? She said, well it’s kind of hard to harvest the potatoes in the field when there’s snakes all around.

Made sense, but I would assume then that it was the poisonous snakes that he drove out. Again, I’ll have to do more research.

Anyway, this is what my mom sent me:

St. Patrick

(389-461)

Feast: March 17th

The Irish are justly famed as storytellers, so it’s not surprising that the exploits of St. Patrick have reached legendary proportions. What do we really know about this saint? He was born in Britain, where his father was an official of the Roman government. Kidnapped by pirates at 16, he was taken to Ireland and sold as a slave to a local chief, who made him a swineherd. Patrick had been baptized, but his isolation and destitution in Ireland seem to have cause a real conversion of the heart. “Anything that happens to me,” he decided, “whether pleasant or distasteful, I ought to accept with equanimity, giving thanks to God who never disappoints me.”

At the age of 22, he stowed away on a boat to Britain, where he was reunited with his family. One can imagine their reaction just a few years later when, apparently a priest by now, Patrick announced his intention to return to the land of his slavery. But he sailed in 432, barely escaping assassination on his arrival, and began a life of traveling and preaching to the Irish. He converted more than 100,000 natives, built hundreds of churches, and even influenced the end of slavery. He was also a poet as the following portion of a prayer attributed to him shows.

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I set down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

And PS, I also heard that green is representative of Ireland because it rains there so much.

I might like it there, I love cloudy rainy days.

PPS - Thanks Jennifer, that was entertaining.

[Rick336]

I also come from Irish decent. My great, great, great, grandfather immigrated to the colonies from Ireland in 1750 and settled in North Carolina. Then he married and had a bunch of kids and they had a bunch of kids and they had a bunch of kids and then there was me. No kids.

No kidding.

Rick

[wmanion]

My family also came from Ireland. In fact, there was a miniseries done several years ago about my family. It was called The O'Manions of America (Kate Mulgrew, Pierce Bronson). It was not a very good mini-series but it did follow what we knew about our history. My great-great grandfather was a Baptist Circuit Preacher who fathered eighteen children and left them in whatever city they happened to be in when they reached the age of fourteen. My grandfather and one sister ended up here. After his first wife's death he married a woman with the last name of Bundy who had nineteen children. It is unsure how many were fathered by him and how many she all ready had. I guess those Irish just love to have kids.

Bill

[Jennifer5]

Originally Posted by Emproph

My mother sent this to me a few weeks ago, saying:

As mentioned below, Patrick was apparently kidnapped by pirates at age 16 and then sold as a slave.

My memory was of having been a cabin boy, about 10 yrs old and raped by the sailors, as no women were allowed on the ships. I didn’t identify with the kidnapping part at first, but looking back on that memory, I always wondered where my parents were to have allowed me to be in that situation. So now the kidnapping part makes more sense, or perhaps I was sold by my parents due to extreme poverty. I’ll have to do more research.

On a lighter note, when I was growing up (this life), the only thing I knew of St. Patrick was that he drove the snakes out of Ireland. I finally asked someone about what the big deal with that was? She said, well it’s kind of hard to harvest the potatoes in the field when there’s snakes all around.

Made sense, but I would assume then that it was the poisonous snakes that he drove out. Again, I’ll have to do more research.

Anyway, this is what my mom sent me:


And PS, I also heard that green is representative of Ireland because it rains there so much.

I might like it there, I love cloudy rainy days.

PPS - Thanks Jennifer, that was entertaining.

You're welcome.
I enjoyed your history lesson... but I don't think it's very accurate.
St. Patrick was a priest, but he didn't drive those poisonous snakes out of Ireland, they called the pagans snakes. So, he drove the pagans out of Ireland. The green was worn my Catholics, perhaps that was because of the green countryside, I don't know. Protestants wore orange because their leader was William Orange. And the Pagans wore black, because they were considered to be evil.
At least that is my understanding of it all as of this year. Too me, it's still a hallmark holiday.

[BrianB]

For St. Patrick's day I met up with some internet friends at the Dublin Pub.http://www.dubpub.com We drank some Guinness and listened to several bands play Irish tunes. My church was selling beer as a fundraiser.

[Emproph]

Originally Posted by Jennifer5

You're welcome.
I enjoyed your history lesson... but I don't think it's very accurate.
St. Patrick was a priest, but he didn't drive those poisonous snakes out of Ireland, they called the pagans snakes. So, he drove the pagans out of Ireland. The green was worn my Catholics, perhaps that was because of the green countryside, I don't know. Protestants wore orange because their leader was William Orange. And the Pagans wore black, because they were considered to be evil.
At least that is my understanding of it all as of this year. Too me, it's still a hallmark holiday.

Well you are just a wealth of information these days, the snake/pagan metaphor makes much more sense.

Thanks again!

[Jennifer5]

Originally Posted by Emproph

Well you are just a wealth of information these days, the snake/pagan metaphor makes much more sense.

Thanks again!

It's either pure dumb luck or it's finally having some smart guys back in my life.