happy saint patricks day
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happy saint patricks day
thats right, its that time of year again
celebrate being irish (we do more than get drunk)
its a bank holiday here, and the actual festival has been going on since saturday, started with an enormous fireworks display, ends today with the usual individual parades through the heart of every city and town, dublin being the largest (as far as i'm aware) get yer shamrocks and wear green stuff, show yer pride. happy la le padraig agus cuir ceist ar mo thoin, amadhaini
enjoy your day folks.
celebrate being irish (we do more than get drunk)
its a bank holiday here, and the actual festival has been going on since saturday, started with an enormous fireworks display, ends today with the usual individual parades through the heart of every city and town, dublin being the largest (as far as i'm aware) get yer shamrocks and wear green stuff, show yer pride. happy la le padraig agus cuir ceist ar mo thoin, amadhaini
enjoy your day folks.
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lol, to the outside world maybe. actually if your interested have a look here, http://www.stpatricksday.ie/cms/
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Saint Patrick
St Patrick is most famous for bringing Christianity to Ireland. He was kidnapped as a child and sold as a slave in Ireland. He escaped to France where he studied to be a priest and later a bishop. He returned to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. He travelled a lot and a great number of places all over the British Isles are named after him or has a street or church bearing his name. The legend says that he used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (The father, the Son and the Holy Ghost) to the King of the Irish people.
St. Patrick is also supposed to have driven the snakes from Ireland. Tales tell about him standing upon a hill, using a wooden staff to drive the snakes into the sea. The snake is often a symbol of something evil and this legend is perhaps one way to show how St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland.
HAPPY IRA DAY
St Patrick is most famous for bringing Christianity to Ireland. He was kidnapped as a child and sold as a slave in Ireland. He escaped to France where he studied to be a priest and later a bishop. He returned to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. He travelled a lot and a great number of places all over the British Isles are named after him or has a street or church bearing his name. The legend says that he used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (The father, the Son and the Holy Ghost) to the King of the Irish people.
St. Patrick is also supposed to have driven the snakes from Ireland. Tales tell about him standing upon a hill, using a wooden staff to drive the snakes into the sea. The snake is often a symbol of something evil and this legend is perhaps one way to show how St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland.
HAPPY IRA DAY
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lol @ IRA day.
we dont have a monarchy here megabum
we dont have a monarchy here megabum
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these are the lyrics to The Foggy Dew,
a classic song about the 1916 rising here in ireland, and the irish republican army when they faught for freedom from british tyranny and were killed. they faught in uniform are were Not terrorists, as they are today. the picture below is of their last stand.
if it was in texas it'd be their Alamo.
Anyway, enjoy
I was down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I.
There armed lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by.
No pipe did hum, no battle drum did sound its loud tattoo.
But the Angelus Bells o'er the Liffey swells rang out in the foggy dew.
Right proudly high in Dublin town
Hung they out a flag of war.
'Twas better to die 'neath that Irish sky
than at Sulva or Sud el Bar.
And from the plains of Royal Meath
strong men came hurrying through
While Brittania's huns with their long range guns
sailed in through the foggy dew.
Their bravest fell and the requiem bell
rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the
springing of the year.
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
at those fearless men but few.
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew.
And back through the glen
I rode again.
And my heart with grief was sore.
For I parted then with valiant men
Whom I never shall see n'more.
But to and fro in my dreams I go
And I kneel and pray for you.
For slavery fled the glorious dead
when you fell in the foggy dew.
a classic song about the 1916 rising here in ireland, and the irish republican army when they faught for freedom from british tyranny and were killed. they faught in uniform are were Not terrorists, as they are today. the picture below is of their last stand.
if it was in texas it'd be their Alamo.
Anyway, enjoy
I was down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I.
There armed lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by.
No pipe did hum, no battle drum did sound its loud tattoo.
But the Angelus Bells o'er the Liffey swells rang out in the foggy dew.
Right proudly high in Dublin town
Hung they out a flag of war.
'Twas better to die 'neath that Irish sky
than at Sulva or Sud el Bar.
And from the plains of Royal Meath
strong men came hurrying through
While Brittania's huns with their long range guns
sailed in through the foggy dew.
Their bravest fell and the requiem bell
rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the
springing of the year.
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
at those fearless men but few.
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew.
And back through the glen
I rode again.
And my heart with grief was sore.
For I parted then with valiant men
Whom I never shall see n'more.
But to and fro in my dreams I go
And I kneel and pray for you.
For slavery fled the glorious dead
when you fell in the foggy dew.
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