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ST. PATRICK'S DAY
~The most famous legend regarding St. Patrick is that he rid Ireland of snakes by ringing his bell from the top of Croagh Patrick, the 2500 feet tall, conical mountain near Westport. Of course this isn't a true fact, but makes for an amusing anecdote. The mountain however has become a place of annual pilgrimage. There is an ancient church at the top and at the base a natural spring well known as Patrick's well or Tobair Padraig - St. Patrick supposedly baptized the first Irish converts at this well.
~St. Patrick is also supposed to have rid Ireland - specifically County Donegal - of a fierce lake monster. After he had killed it, the blood turned the lake red and so since then the lake has been known as Red Lake or Lough Derg. It is now a pilgrimage place and many people go there between 1 June and 15 August in the fond hope that the journey will rid them of all their sins.
~St. Patrick brought public attention to the humble Shamrock, after using a three-leafed specimen to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - to the pagan King Laoghaire of Tara.
~St. Patrick's favorite color was blue, not green, and the people of Ireland too weren't exactly fond of green - according to them it was the color of the Fairies and Leprechauns and, unless you wanted to forcibly join the ranks of these Wee Folks, you would refrain from sporting that color too often. It wasn't until the 19th Century that Green became the official color of Ireland.
~The first St. Patrick's Day parade in America was held in Boston on 17 March 1737 and the practice began in New York on 17 March 1762. Chicago followed suit later and has a tradition - since 1962 - of dyeing the Chicago river green with vegetable dyes. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated all over now and is the longest running civilian parade in the world - a secular celebration in which 'all the world becomes Irish'. Such statements, of course, annoy the real Irish no end. Everyone wants to have the Luck of the Irish, they say, and no whit of our Troubles.
~On St. Patrick's Day, you can bring yourself good luck by finding a four-leaf clover, wearing green, and kissing the Blarney Stone.
~In 1900 Queen Victoria decreed that Irish Regiments should wear the shamrock on St. Patrick's Day in memory of the Irish Soldiers killed in the Boer War.
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-17-2005-67214.asp)
~St. Patricks Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patricks Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
~In Ireland on St. Patricks Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.
~Many cities have a St. Patricks Day parade. Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has a huge St. Patricks Day festival from March 15-19, that features a parade, family carnivals, treasure hunt, dance, theatre and more. In North American, parades are often held on the Sunday before March 17. Some paint the yellow street lines green for the day! In Chicago, the Chicago River is dyed green with a special dye that only lasts a few hours. There has been a St. Patricks Day parade in Boston, Massachusetts since 1737. Montreal is home to Canadas longest running St. Patricks Day parade, which began in 1824.
~34 million Americans have Irish ancestry, according to the 2003 US Census. Thats almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.1 million people.
~The harp is the symbol of Ireland. The color green is also commonly associated with Ireland, also known as the Emerald Isle.
~The Irish flag is green, white and orange. The green symbolizes the people of the south, and orange, the people of the north. White represents the peace that brings them together as a nation.
~The name lephrechaun has several origins. It could be from the Irish Gaelic word leipreachan, which means a kind of aqueous sprite. Or, it could be from leath bhrogan, which means shoemaker.
~According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest number of leaves found on a clover is 14!
~One estimate suggests that there are about 10 000 regular three-leaf clovers for every lucky four-leaf clover.
~Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM : http://holidays.kaboose.com/saint-patricks-day/quick_facts.html)
~St Patrick is known as the patron saint of Ireland. True, he was not a born Irish. But he has become an integral part of the Irish heritage, mostly through his service across Ireland of the 5th century.
Patrick was born in the later half of the 4th century AD. There are differing views about the exact year and place of his birth. According to one school of opinion, he was born about 390 A.D., while the other school says it is about 373 AD. Again, his birth place is said to be in either Scotland or Roman England. His real name was probably Maewyn Succat. Though Patricius was his Romanicized name, he was later came to be familiar as Patrick.
(TAKEN FROM : http://www.theholidayspot.com/patrick/historyofpatrick.htm)
Q: Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day?
A: Regular rocks are too heavy.
Q: Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
A: Because they're always a little short.
Q: Why do leprechauns have pots o'gold?
A: They like to "go" first class!
Q: How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time?
A: He's Dublin over with laughter!
Q: What's Irish and stays out all night?
A: Patty O'furniture!
Q: How did the Irish Jig get started?
A: Too much to drink and not enough restrooms!
Q: What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control his wife?
A: A bachelor.
Q: What would you get if you crossed Christmas with St. Patrick's Day?
A:St. O'Claus!
Q: Are people jealous of the Irish?
A:Sure, they're green with envy!
Q: What would you get if you crossed Quasimodo with an Irish football player?
A:The Halfback of Notre Dame!
Q: Why did the leprechaun stand on the potato?
A:To keep from falling in the stew!
Q: Do leprechauns make good secretaries?
A:Sure, they're great at shorthand!
Q: How did the leprechaun beat the Irishman to the pot of gold?
A:He took a shortcut!
Q: What do leprechauns love to barbecue?
A:Short ribs!
Q: Why are leprechauns so hard to get along with?
A:Because they're very short-tempered!
~How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
At least two. One holds the light bulb steady, everybody else drinks until the room spins.
~A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink.
"Why of course," comes the reply.
The first man then asks: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Ireland," replies the second man.
The first man responds: "You don't say, I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of Course," replies the second man.
Curious, the first man then asks: "Where in Ireland are you from?"
"Dublin," comes the reply.
"I can't believe it," says the first man.
"I'm from Dublin too! Let's have another drink to Dublin."
"Of course," replies the second man.
Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks:
"What school did you go to?"
"Saint Mary's," replies the second man.
"I graduated in '62."
"This is unbelievable!" the first man says.
"I went to Saint Mary's and I graduated in '62, too!"
About that time in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar.
"What's been going on?" he asks the bartender.
"Nothing much," replies the bartender. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."
~Pat and Mick landed themselves a job at a sawmill. Just before morning tea Pat yelled: "Mick! I lost me finger!"
"Have you now?" says Mick. "And how did you do it?"
"I just touched this big spinning thing here like thi...
Darn! There goes another one!"
~Joey-Jim was tooling along the road one fine day when the local policeman, a friend of his, pulled him over. "What's wrong, Seamus?" Joey-Jim asked. "Well didn't ya know, Joey-Jim, that your wife fell out of the car about five miles back?" said Seamus. "Ah, praise the Almighty!" he replied with relief. "I thought I'd gone deaf!"
SO BEFORE I GO I ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW I HAVE DECIDED I AM NOT MISSING OUT ON ANOTHER HELL CITY. SO I AM GOING IN MAY. I AM SOOO EXCITED! I CAN NOT WAIT TO MEET ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE THERE! TIME TO PARTY IT UP!
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
~The most famous legend regarding St. Patrick is that he rid Ireland of snakes by ringing his bell from the top of Croagh Patrick, the 2500 feet tall, conical mountain near Westport. Of course this isn't a true fact, but makes for an amusing anecdote. The mountain however has become a place of annual pilgrimage. There is an ancient church at the top and at the base a natural spring well known as Patrick's well or Tobair Padraig - St. Patrick supposedly baptized the first Irish converts at this well.
~St. Patrick is also supposed to have rid Ireland - specifically County Donegal - of a fierce lake monster. After he had killed it, the blood turned the lake red and so since then the lake has been known as Red Lake or Lough Derg. It is now a pilgrimage place and many people go there between 1 June and 15 August in the fond hope that the journey will rid them of all their sins.
~St. Patrick brought public attention to the humble Shamrock, after using a three-leafed specimen to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - to the pagan King Laoghaire of Tara.
~St. Patrick's favorite color was blue, not green, and the people of Ireland too weren't exactly fond of green - according to them it was the color of the Fairies and Leprechauns and, unless you wanted to forcibly join the ranks of these Wee Folks, you would refrain from sporting that color too often. It wasn't until the 19th Century that Green became the official color of Ireland.
~The first St. Patrick's Day parade in America was held in Boston on 17 March 1737 and the practice began in New York on 17 March 1762. Chicago followed suit later and has a tradition - since 1962 - of dyeing the Chicago river green with vegetable dyes. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated all over now and is the longest running civilian parade in the world - a secular celebration in which 'all the world becomes Irish'. Such statements, of course, annoy the real Irish no end. Everyone wants to have the Luck of the Irish, they say, and no whit of our Troubles.
~On St. Patrick's Day, you can bring yourself good luck by finding a four-leaf clover, wearing green, and kissing the Blarney Stone.
~In 1900 Queen Victoria decreed that Irish Regiments should wear the shamrock on St. Patrick's Day in memory of the Irish Soldiers killed in the Boer War.
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-17-2005-67214.asp)
~St. Patricks Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patricks Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
~In Ireland on St. Patricks Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.
~Many cities have a St. Patricks Day parade. Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has a huge St. Patricks Day festival from March 15-19, that features a parade, family carnivals, treasure hunt, dance, theatre and more. In North American, parades are often held on the Sunday before March 17. Some paint the yellow street lines green for the day! In Chicago, the Chicago River is dyed green with a special dye that only lasts a few hours. There has been a St. Patricks Day parade in Boston, Massachusetts since 1737. Montreal is home to Canadas longest running St. Patricks Day parade, which began in 1824.
~34 million Americans have Irish ancestry, according to the 2003 US Census. Thats almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.1 million people.
~The harp is the symbol of Ireland. The color green is also commonly associated with Ireland, also known as the Emerald Isle.
~The Irish flag is green, white and orange. The green symbolizes the people of the south, and orange, the people of the north. White represents the peace that brings them together as a nation.
~The name lephrechaun has several origins. It could be from the Irish Gaelic word leipreachan, which means a kind of aqueous sprite. Or, it could be from leath bhrogan, which means shoemaker.
~According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest number of leaves found on a clover is 14!
~One estimate suggests that there are about 10 000 regular three-leaf clovers for every lucky four-leaf clover.
~Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM : http://holidays.kaboose.com/saint-patricks-day/quick_facts.html)
~St Patrick is known as the patron saint of Ireland. True, he was not a born Irish. But he has become an integral part of the Irish heritage, mostly through his service across Ireland of the 5th century.
Patrick was born in the later half of the 4th century AD. There are differing views about the exact year and place of his birth. According to one school of opinion, he was born about 390 A.D., while the other school says it is about 373 AD. Again, his birth place is said to be in either Scotland or Roman England. His real name was probably Maewyn Succat. Though Patricius was his Romanicized name, he was later came to be familiar as Patrick.
(TAKEN FROM : http://www.theholidayspot.com/patrick/historyofpatrick.htm)
Q: Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day?
A: Regular rocks are too heavy.
Q: Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
A: Because they're always a little short.
Q: Why do leprechauns have pots o'gold?
A: They like to "go" first class!
Q: How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time?
A: He's Dublin over with laughter!
Q: What's Irish and stays out all night?
A: Patty O'furniture!
Q: How did the Irish Jig get started?
A: Too much to drink and not enough restrooms!
Q: What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control his wife?
A: A bachelor.
Q: What would you get if you crossed Christmas with St. Patrick's Day?
A:St. O'Claus!
Q: Are people jealous of the Irish?
A:Sure, they're green with envy!
Q: What would you get if you crossed Quasimodo with an Irish football player?
A:The Halfback of Notre Dame!
Q: Why did the leprechaun stand on the potato?
A:To keep from falling in the stew!
Q: Do leprechauns make good secretaries?
A:Sure, they're great at shorthand!
Q: How did the leprechaun beat the Irishman to the pot of gold?
A:He took a shortcut!
Q: What do leprechauns love to barbecue?
A:Short ribs!
Q: Why are leprechauns so hard to get along with?
A:Because they're very short-tempered!
~How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
At least two. One holds the light bulb steady, everybody else drinks until the room spins.
~A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink.
"Why of course," comes the reply.
The first man then asks: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Ireland," replies the second man.
The first man responds: "You don't say, I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of Course," replies the second man.
Curious, the first man then asks: "Where in Ireland are you from?"
"Dublin," comes the reply.
"I can't believe it," says the first man.
"I'm from Dublin too! Let's have another drink to Dublin."
"Of course," replies the second man.
Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks:
"What school did you go to?"
"Saint Mary's," replies the second man.
"I graduated in '62."
"This is unbelievable!" the first man says.
"I went to Saint Mary's and I graduated in '62, too!"
About that time in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar.
"What's been going on?" he asks the bartender.
"Nothing much," replies the bartender. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."
~Pat and Mick landed themselves a job at a sawmill. Just before morning tea Pat yelled: "Mick! I lost me finger!"
"Have you now?" says Mick. "And how did you do it?"
"I just touched this big spinning thing here like thi...
Darn! There goes another one!"
~Joey-Jim was tooling along the road one fine day when the local policeman, a friend of his, pulled him over. "What's wrong, Seamus?" Joey-Jim asked. "Well didn't ya know, Joey-Jim, that your wife fell out of the car about five miles back?" said Seamus. "Ah, praise the Almighty!" he replied with relief. "I thought I'd gone deaf!"
SO BEFORE I GO I ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW I HAVE DECIDED I AM NOT MISSING OUT ON ANOTHER HELL CITY. SO I AM GOING IN MAY. I AM SOOO EXCITED! I CAN NOT WAIT TO MEET ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE THERE! TIME TO PARTY IT UP!
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risus_sardonicus:
It's been a whole day now, where are your pics?
onenerdykid:
I wrote my response to your inbox for space reasons 