I won't worry about orange mixed with green, afterall:
Posted on 03/17/2006 5:35:15 AM PST by aculeus
St. Patrick's Day began as a religious observance to commemorate the death in the fifth century of Ireland's patron saint. Because March 17 falls during Lent, the Catholic Church in Ireland has traditionally allowed parishioners a one-day reprieve from their fast.
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By 1995, the Irish government realized that it was missing out on a chance to cash in on this holiday bonanza and established a St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin. In the decade since, attendance at the four-day event has more than tripled to some 1.2 million people.
These days it's popular in some quarters to warn that globalization is making the world more homogeneous. But stories like that of St. Patrick's Day are the other side of the cultural-imperialism coin. Rather than promoting uniformity, Americans have helped to create a more colorful world. In this case, a greener one.
Two million people will watch or participate in the New York City parade alone, while all but two Irish cabinet ministers this year are leaving their country to attend celebrations elsewhere. How did this happen?
St. Patrick's Day began as a religious observance to commemorate the death in the fifth century of Ireland's patron saint. Because March 17 falls during Lent, the Catholic Church in Ireland has traditionally allowed parishioners a one-day reprieve from their fast.
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America's gift to Ireland ping.
Enjoy your "American" holiday!
Does Guinness come in green today?
Yeah, they were so busy getting drunk that they forgot to change the name!
From this descendent of the Scots-Irish I bid you all a very HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY. Now my family has been In America since the early 1700’s – so why am I proud to be of this Scots-Irish lineage? Because of the type of people they were. Read this quote.
“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger. “
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
So as I sit at our dinner table tonight gorging on our once a year treat of home-made Guinness Beef Stew, I will thank God for our people, and thank him for sending them to America early our history to help shape it into the great country it became.
Now to you all….
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields, and
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Erin Go Braugh
Good post. My mom's side is Scots-Irish, however as Protestants, they never made any big deal over St Patrick's day. Wouldn't you think that true of most the Scots-Irish in the South?
It does seem that St. Patriuck's day is celebrated more in the North than the South (outside of New Orleans).
I would instead say "Ireland's gift to America, and the world". Happy St. Patrick's Day to you :>)
Jeff Quigley (irishtenor)
May you be in Heaven,
an hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
Not sure if it's really Irish, but i always liked the sentiment.
"My mom's side is Scots-Irish, however as Protestants, they never made any big deal over St Patrick's day. Wouldn't you think that true of most the Scots-Irish in the South?
It does seem that St. Patrick's day is celebrated more in the North than the South (outside of New Orleans)."
Yes that is true, in the more traditional sense it is a Catholic Holiday - but you could say the same about St. Valentine's Day as well - and the next time that Holiday rolls around try using that excuse for not celebrating it to your protestant wife.
That would be a sure way to get me killed.
BTW, you're a lawyer; I wondered what you think of Law Students Against Representation:
It turns out the military isn't the only organization whose law school recruitment efforts activists have targeted. The Boston Globe reports:
When word spread at Harvard Law School last month that one of the most successful recruiters of its graduates, Ropes & Gray, was helping Catholic Charities explore ways to prevent same-sex couples from adopting children, gay and lesbian students wanted to stop the law firm it [sic] its tracks.There were "people who were upset and people who were very upset," said Brad Rosen, a first-year student and board member of Lambda, the school's group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.
A Lambda representative wound up meeting with Ropes's managing partner and others at the firm and expressing the students' unhappiness.
Two weeks ago, Ropes said it would no longer do legal work to assist the bishops in their efforts to stop gay adoptions, and last week Catholic Charities said it would end its adoption program because it could not reconcile church doctrine, which holds that gay adoptions are "gravely immoral," with state antidiscrimination laws.
It's unclear what impact, if any, Harvard's students had in Ropes's decision, although they are among the country's most sought-after law graduates.
It's one thing for Harvard to object when an organization discriminates in hiring, but the complaint about Ropes & Gray goes against one of the most basic premises of the law: that lawyers are not responsible for the actions of their clients, and that everyone is entitled to seek legal representation. Even if the Catholic Church is invidiously discriminating against gays, the law firm is no more responsible for this than a serial killer's lawyer is for the former's crimes.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Many thanks ... and same to you.
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I have to learn how to use those neat variegated fonts one of these days.
Spiff up my posts.
:O)
I wtinessed the St Patrick's Day parade in downtown Auckland last Saturday 11 March. What shocked me was the amount of Orange among the people. In fact, I saw far mroe Orange than Green throughout the parade here. As Orange represents Orangemen (Protestants) I didn't understand why it was so prominent in the parade.
Then I realized Irish descents in New Zealand tended to have Protestants as majority. The Irish here tend to be a more more supportive of Britain than Irish-Americans.
I won't worry about orange mixed with green, afterall:
I wouldn't worry either: just the fact that it looks so different from what I read about the St Patrick's parades held in American Northeast.
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