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03-17-2006, 01:04 PM
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Happy Saint Patrick day
Espeically to my Irish friends!
On subject I think Saint Patrick was Greek, he came to Britain with the Roman empire and worked for many years as a slave, Patrickos is a Greek name! Anyway, he went to Ireland risking his life to convert the Pagans! I think he failed on first attempt? God bless! Don't get too drunk! |
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03-17-2006, 06:38 PM
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Re: Happy Saint Patrick day
Hi Postmaster
 Happy St Patrick Day to you also. i always thought of it as corn beef & cabbage day & wear green so you dont get pinched... & for some, green beer, & turning the river green & Notre Dame football. i never knew it had anything to do with Christian until last year. i think St Patricks Day is cool, cause I am an Irish mutt. btw-i have corn beef simmering as we speak |
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03-19-2006, 04:33 PM
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Re: Happy Saint Patrick day
Why, to be sure Luna-me-darlin', isn't that the only place that matters!!
About this time of year I drag a dogeared copy of one of my J P Donleavy novels off the shelf, flick open at any page just to read the dialogue. The one thing in life I always wanted, was a Trinity College accent! Or listen to "Women of Ireland" and remember when my dad used to shut himself in the bedroom and play it, with homesick tears streaming down his face. Then to brighten the mood, O'Carolan's Concerto or The Four Poster Bed. The Four Poster Bed is a story of the blind harpist Carolan, who knocked on a door looking for a bed for the night. A deal was struck in which the man of the house would build O'Carolan a bed, and O'Carolan would write the carpenter a tune. As the work progressed each tried to outdo the other and finish first, so the reel gets faster and faster ... when dad was on form and in the mood, none could keep pace with him, and more than once I've seen a pub roaring so loud the walls were fit to burst as he accelerated away leaving the banjo and bodhrain calling for mercy in his wake... Try listening to Shaun Davey on the pipes playing 'The Brendan Voyage' (the Irish gave the pipes and the kilt to the Scots, who have yet to get the joke), close your eyes and forward to track 3, "Water under the Keel", and I swear to God you can feel the moment when Brendan and his monks sail out of the cover of the Minches, a moment as the lady gathers up her skirts and listen ... listen .... she picks up the breeze and ... There! She's off, like a hart across the heather, like a puppy up the cellar steps, see how she slips along, see how she flies! The smell of the sea, the wind on your cheek, the heave of the ocean beneath you, the sudden sting of the spray that leaves you gasping... Isn't it great to be alive? Isn't like an adventure, after all? Sure isn't Christianity but a CHALLENGE! Thomas (in poet mode) Word of caution: "When Irish eyes are smiling" means you are being lied to, and never, ever, EVER, accept a wager off an Irishman. |
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03-19-2006, 06:57 PM
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Re: Happy Saint Patrick day
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 Patrick (Patricus, or Maewyn Succat) was a British born Roman citizen from a well to do family (his father, Calpurnius was a Roman-British Army Officer). When he was 16, he was captured by a Gaelic raiding party and taken back to Hibernai as a slave. There he tended the animal flocks as a shepard, but was treated more or less with dignity by his captors, and he became enthrolled with the Irish and their joix de vivre. He also noted that it wasn't death the Irish feared, it was life. He remained there for six years, then escaped back to Britian. However, he would never be able to catch up with his peers in his studies and culture, so felt outcast in his own home. And he could not get the Irish people out of his mind or heart. He went into the priest hood, and requested to be a missionary to Hibernia. So, he went back to the Irish "savages" who had tenderly cared for his physical well being, in order to care for their spiritual well being. What astounded the Gaels about Patrick was that he had no fear, of them nor of life, and he loved them. They also sensed Patrick's certainty and purpose, and they wanted that too. The combination was nearly perfect, and they embraced the "Abbot". He also taught and converted many within the royal families as well (which did not sit well with the Celtic Druids). He was arrested several times, but managed to almost magically escape each time (which caused the Druids to fear him all the more). By the time Patrick died (17 March 461 AD), there were 11 Abbeys solidly established. Not bad for 20 years worth of preaching...  The only failure Patrick felt at the end of his life, was that he could never get the Celts to give up their one year contract marriages, or sharing their love and beds, with whom ever they fancied. But he did teach them to love writing, so much so that the Irish began to translate everything they could get their hands on, and into as many languages as the Roman Empire contained. Happy St. Patrick's Day  v/r Q |
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03-19-2006, 11:17 PM
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Re: Happy Saint Patrick day
Luna-me-darlin', you never know...
The only failure Patrick felt at the end of his life, was that he could never get the Celts to give up their one year contract marriages, or sharing their love and beds, with whom ever they fancied. No insult intended, but the Celts were ever a free-n-easy lot, and they got around, too! There's no knowing, way back, what might have happened ... Thomas |
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03-19-2006, 11:20 PM
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Hmmm, so since I know I have some English blood in me that means there could be a few Irish hitch-hikers along? Erin go bragh! |
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03-20-2006, 04:08 AM
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Re: Happy Saint Patrick day
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"Marry an Irish woman from the mountain, and you marry "the mountain"...  v/r Q |
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