St paddy's day
- 16 March 2011 22:5297207with all due respect alex those images do not seem too irish.
- 16 March 2011 23:1297211Mmmm, does follow Alex's way of posting Howard.
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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16 March 2011 23:1697213Not a Rangers fan then Alexander.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 16 March 2011 23:5697218Probably only long range Jan
- 17 March 2011 00:4297220It would be nice if we celebrated our own saint's day so fervently.
I reckon dragon slaying tops that of snakes anyday - 17 March 2011 01:1397221Couldn't agree more Penny, perhaps this April 23 we can celebrate properly with it being Saturday, Easter weekend and the beginning of the very short working week that follows ending with the Royal wedding.
- 17 March 2011 01:1597222Saint Patrick is a British Celtic Saint who went back from Britain to Ireland to establish the Church. Although I'm enjoying a fine can of olde English, he is British!Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 17 March 2011 08:3797233
St Patrick an Englishman!!?...not at all bejayses. Here's the true story, the gospel truth
St Patrick was born in BallyJamesduff in West Cork as plain and simple Patrick Reilly O'Donovan, the son of a simple sheepherder called Tom O'Donovan. Tom was a happy go lucky fella reminiscent of John Wayne in the Quiet Man..he liked a good fight and a drink in that order. He also had a glint in his eye for the ladies.
One day, it was a quiet sunday so it was, well before Patrick was born...a strolling minstrel came into the village and she was a beauty.
She sang her favourite song as she strolled on the bridge below the town, all the while strumming her golden melodic mandolin..she sang out
"as I was out walking
one morning in may,
I spied a young maiden
a making the hay."
Tom gazed upon her beauty, was enthralled by her pure voice ringing out behind Murphy's cowshed, and fell for her hook line and sinker. And who wouldnt. Her name was Roisin and soon after catching a glimpse of the handsome Tom, she gave up her strolling mandolin and wed Big Tom in the village church.
They had one son in time, before Big Tom fell victim to a rasping poisonous snake which bit him in a very tender area. Patrick grew up after the tragedy having a thing about snakes and made it his life's work to develop a potion to be rid of the blighters.
Years later in gratitude for all the work he did with the snakes ...another minstrel , a direct descendant I beleive, penned that other well known tuneful ditty
" Come back Paddy Reilly to BallyJamesduff"
So there, you didnt know that did you?
I dedicate this historically accurate story to my fellow travelling cohorts from the green republic ...
Bern and ColetteB.
meanwhile Im off the celebrate the day with two fillings at the dentist..not good planning
email: dover7@msn.com - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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17 March 2011 08:4197234peter,i have a snowballs chance in hell to do that. 
- 17 March 2011 12:1597256Shure PaulB, that made me laugh out loud, so it did This forum is good for a few laughs, food for the soul.
And that's a true story so it is, it is, it is - 17 March 2011 12:3597257I'm glad you have enlightened us with your historically accurate version of the life of Patrick Reilly O'Donovan (St Patrick)
I'm sure that I have heard the said same story whilst swopping Henry James antidotes with a few like-minded learned friends in Temple Bar over a pint or three of the 'black stuff'
Happy Paddy's Day - 17 March 2011 12:3597258Happy St Patrick's Day.
- 17 March 2011 14:1697273PaulB
Great story Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 17 March 2011 16:5897294PaulB you are a true Fibber in the Irish sense of the word.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 17 March 2011 17:2697299paulb has clearly kissed the blarney stone. one lone tricolour blowing around this morning
- 17 March 2011 17:4297301From my friend in the USA.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 17 March 2011 18:4797323 Love the picture Jeane and yep howard the story is true heard it this morn on the radio, and told on here by our very own Editor
- 19 March 2011 16:0097597
another hostelry that celebrated, from a distance i could only see the balloons.
i thought that it was because alec had settled his tab in there. - 19 March 2011 16:4897608I have just caught up with this - marvellous. Laughed out loud.
