Posted on 03/17/2010 5:38:32 AM PDT by Kartographer
On St. Patrick's Day—Tuesday, March 17—millions of people will don green and celebrate the Irish in, and around, them with parades, good cheer, and perhaps a pint of beer.
But few St. Patrick's Day revelers have a clue about St. Patrick, the man, according to the author of St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography.
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Great Pic o’ the Auld Sod, Kartographer!
Great! Now I can’t get The Quiet Man music out of my head.
De de, de de, de de, deedle eedle!
Its very nice for Irish people to make such a fuss about a day dedicated to the honorable memory of a Englishman, St. Patrick.
Although I’m an American of Irish descent I was shocked when I read that St. Patrick was a contemporary of St. Augustine. I had thought they were separated by 500 years.
Ouch. I don’t even want to think about the labor involved in clearing those fields of all those rocks.
The book “How the Irish Saved Civilization” is actually quite good on St. Patrick. It’s really about 400 to about 1000 AD in Ireland and reads quite well. I didn’t bother with it for several years thinking it was just another Irish joke book, but it isn’t at all.
I forgot to add this:
http://www.e-water.net/viewflash.php?flash=irishblessing_en
Happy St. Patrick’s day.
Yes, I have that one - it’s a good read.
“Great! Now I can’t get The Quiet Man music out of my head.
De de, de de, de de, deedle eedle!”
Oh course I will be watching that movie tonight!
The Labor Party brought them.
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