Saint Patrick's Day Greetings
Mar 17, 2018 00:25:35 #
St. Patrick's Day greetings to all !!
St.Patrick’s Day is when all those of goodwill and fun-loving disposition are invited to be Irish for a day. Those who are more droll-minded can whoop it up by celebrating Boston’s 'Evacuation Day' or perhaps find connection with the fact that Patrick is also the Patron Saint of Boston; New York; Nigeria; Montserrat; Engineers; Paralegals and Ophidiophobes (those who fear snakes).
St. Patrick was not actually Irish. He was a fifth century, English or French born son of a Roman official. At age 16 he was captured in Britain by an Irish raiding party and sold into slavery to mind sheep on a lonely Irish mountainside. Patrick escaped after a few years and became a clergyman. He returned to Ireland years later to put manners on the wild Irish pagans and converted them to Christianity. However, even after 1500 years, the suppressed fun-loving spirits of the pagans rise to the surface each year around March 17 to celebrate, or perhaps to defy, the holy man.
Some other snippets of useless information:
No, they don’t drink green beer in Ireland on St Patrick’s Day. Guinness, like Model -T Fords, only comes in black. In the 1950’s and 60’s Guinness marketed their stout with the slogan ‘Guinness is Good for You’. In the days before ‘organic’ or ‘lite’, Guinness reinforced the health message by donating their stout to hospitals to administer to blood donors and women after childbirth to ‘build up the blood’. It was a very successful marketing strategy.
Dublin is nearly 800 miles North of Boston, about the same latitude as Alaska’s Aleutian Islands or Canada's Polar Bear National Park. It rarely snows more than an inch and temperatures rarely drop more than a few degrees below freezing. Palm trees grow along the seafront in Dublin and other places around the island. My wife was in Ireland last week and reported that the daffodils were in full bloom while I was shoveling 18" of snow in Boston.
Over 20 million Americans claim to be of Irish descent. They outnumber the Irish in Ireland by 5:1.
Reposting some of my pics of Ireland. Feel free to post your own favorite pics, memories or greetings.
St.Patrick’s Day is when all those of goodwill and fun-loving disposition are invited to be Irish for a day. Those who are more droll-minded can whoop it up by celebrating Boston’s 'Evacuation Day' or perhaps find connection with the fact that Patrick is also the Patron Saint of Boston; New York; Nigeria; Montserrat; Engineers; Paralegals and Ophidiophobes (those who fear snakes).
St. Patrick was not actually Irish. He was a fifth century, English or French born son of a Roman official. At age 16 he was captured in Britain by an Irish raiding party and sold into slavery to mind sheep on a lonely Irish mountainside. Patrick escaped after a few years and became a clergyman. He returned to Ireland years later to put manners on the wild Irish pagans and converted them to Christianity. However, even after 1500 years, the suppressed fun-loving spirits of the pagans rise to the surface each year around March 17 to celebrate, or perhaps to defy, the holy man.
Some other snippets of useless information:
No, they don’t drink green beer in Ireland on St Patrick’s Day. Guinness, like Model -T Fords, only comes in black. In the 1950’s and 60’s Guinness marketed their stout with the slogan ‘Guinness is Good for You’. In the days before ‘organic’ or ‘lite’, Guinness reinforced the health message by donating their stout to hospitals to administer to blood donors and women after childbirth to ‘build up the blood’. It was a very successful marketing strategy.
Dublin is nearly 800 miles North of Boston, about the same latitude as Alaska’s Aleutian Islands or Canada's Polar Bear National Park. It rarely snows more than an inch and temperatures rarely drop more than a few degrees below freezing. Palm trees grow along the seafront in Dublin and other places around the island. My wife was in Ireland last week and reported that the daffodils were in full bloom while I was shoveling 18" of snow in Boston.
Over 20 million Americans claim to be of Irish descent. They outnumber the Irish in Ireland by 5:1.
Reposting some of my pics of Ireland. Feel free to post your own favorite pics, memories or greetings.
Mar 17, 2018 00:39:28 #
Mar 17, 2018 00:46:04 #
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First off, thank you so much for sharing some very interesting information; things I didn't know.
Secondly, your photographs are stunning. Great job!
Mar 17, 2018 01:40:19 #
Super photos... especially the one of the Giant's Causeway. I'm certain my feet were in the same place as yours at several of those sites.... yet my photos are rubbish. I guess I'll have to go back and try again. Drat!
Mar 17, 2018 02:24:31 #
Thanks for those interesting facts. Your photos are wonderful, makes me want to go back...I kissed the Blarney Stone in 1973, after going all the way from Australia.
Mar 17, 2018 09:31:10 #
Fascinating coastlines all around. Way too much green. A photographer's heaven.
Well done.
Well done.
Mar 18, 2018 13:27:27 #
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Mar 18, 2018 22:39:31 #
Very enjoyable set!! Was there last July & played some of the noted golf courses - Old Head, Waterville, Ballybunion, Tralee, & Lahinch. Took in the Cliffs along the way.
Can't wait to go back.
Can't wait to go back.
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