Saint Patrick

Bandit · 03-17-2005, 07:28 AM

I am irish and german and i know we have corn beef and cabbage, wear green, and kiss me cause i am Irish and I have been to Notre Dame football games.

anyone else here irish?

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/stpatricksday/

here is a video clip from the History Channel

faithfull · 03-17-2005, 07:31 AM

Im Irish to I have the Red hair to prove it!

Basstian · 03-17-2005, 07:37 AM

My Daddy was a traveling fence jumper so I could be LOL I am a mutt

That reminds me my 6yr old niece thinks leperchauns kill people and was scared tonight thanks to holywood them scoundrels.

Bandit · 03-17-2005, 08:45 AM

oh yah i remember that movie about leperchauns being advertised. It looked scary.

then the horseshoe, the four leaved clover, good luck, lucky charms cereal, the pot of gold.
amazing how all this gets started.
how much more superstition is there.

for some this is like a real holy day too.

Quahom1 · 03-17-2005, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bandit

oh yah i remember that movie about leperchauns being advertised. It looked scary.

then the horseshoe, the four leaved clover, good luck, lucky charms cereal, the pot of gold.
amazing how all this gets started.
how much more superstition is there.

for some this is like a real holy day too.

Beannachtai na Feile Padraig, agat!

My three times great grandfather left county Galway in 1850, and Settled in Maryland, where he married into a family named Crabbs. My mother's side of the family came from Roscommon, and contains the names O'kean, Compton, Conologe. The current names in our family include Colleen, Maureen, Corrine, Owen, Patrick, Seamus, Thomas, Blake, Ryan, and Aloyusius!

Since the passing of the grand folks, Gaelic is not heard so much at family gatherings, except in an occasional explicative, or blessing, but we remember.

How Ironic that Padraig (St. Patrick) wasn't even Irish...

Dia's Muire duit!

Q

lunamoth · 03-17-2005, 02:35 PM

Happy St. Pat's Day all!

I can claim to be 14th gen American on my paternal line so I'm pretty sure there's at least a pinch of Irish in me somewhere.

cheers,
lunamoth

P.S. As you can see by my wings I'm in full regalia--luna

I, Brian · 03-18-2005, 02:49 PM

And here's the Catholic Encyclopedia's long entry on St Patrick:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm

didymus · 03-19-2005, 04:55 AM

my grandmother was half Irish. I guess that makes me 1/4. Love that cabbage.