St Patrick's Day

I didn't realise there was such a reaction Matty. But if there is, how then can it simultaneously be popular?

 

If you exclude yours and Cerny's contributions to this thread then it's fairly representative.

The regular pub goers embrace it and a conservative element (not in a political sense) call for the official recognition of the English saints day. Again, the drinkers would encourage that as another excuse for a booze up.

I think the fact that St Patricks day actually has more recognition than St George's is where the bewilderment arises (I bet more English know 17th March than 23rd April).

It's not too divisive but it surfaces every year.

All down to clever marketing by the Guinness company that's all.

 

But I thought this thread was very pro-Paddy's Day! (Me and Cerny excluded)

It would be good if St George's day was promoted more as its part of English culture. Its like anything I suppose. Some things just take off and gather momentum which was the case with St P's day since the late 19th Century. No doubt if a decent effort was made to get St George's day going then in a number of years it could be up there too.

The more days the better. The more piss ups we can have

 

Spot on Matt. Cheers.

 

Actually, you're right about this thread (possibly confused it with a couple of Facebook comments I've seen).

St George's just needs a collective effort to drag out some Morris dancers :/ and some felt hats and we'd lap it up...

Hope you had a good one as a non drinker Swordsy.

 

Happy "paddys day " to all.......

Hope you had a few guiness's's's'? and boiled bacon & cabbage for brekkie...

PS..i have irish relatives before the PC brigade get involved.

Secret, why dont you organise a St georges day celebration, even though your half (?) irish?

 

I think it is lovely that some Corkonians still make the effort to get up to Dublin at least once a year to celebrate something. It is just a shame that the weather in mid March is not as nice as it is in early September.

 

Morning all....lovely day here in the river city..gonna be 32 again

didnt realise this thread was still going on 24 hours later

Oi Secret..you calmed down yet ?

 

I hope he has. He's an awful eejit that bloke. He posts up the most intimate details of his private life for the whole World to see, then blows his top off when some of the sh*t comes back to bite him in the bum.

Only last week he started a thread telling us all that he picked up some old tart at a grab-a-granny night, asking us whether or not he should throw a length into her wrinkly old minge. Yet when he got a bit of heat from people over it, he started breaking up and couldn't control himself. He's clearly either a kid who's somehow got control of someone's laptop or he's a simpleton who's guardians aren't doing a great job of keeping him out of trouble.

I honestly think the lift doesn't go all the way to the top with that fool.

 

just for the record the 1st parade of note was done in Boston in the late 1700's. it wasn't done in Ireland until the 1930's after the republic was formed.
yet another thing you can blame on the Americans!

 

I don't think Joyce had any kids. Didn't he drop anchor up poo pond?

I'm surprised Cerny hasn't responded to be honest. I hope he ain't got the hump.

 

Joyce had two children, both born in Trieste. George, born in 1905 and Lucia, born in 1907. As regards his sexuality, you may be confusing him with Wilde perhaps?

 

St Patrick was British, St George was a foreigner imposed by Eurocrats in the Norman administration. I

 

St George was either Turkish or Syrian, a Roman mercenary who probably never set foot in England. There is much argument for St Alban to be named patron saint of England, as he was in fact an English martyr.

 

Little known prickly nugget, but St Partick was in fact a thistle.

 

Lots of Irish born saints anyway for example.....Aiden, Brendan....and the wonderful St Kevin ...this is a true story, in that it was told to me by Jimmy the horse man when I visited Glendalough.
So St Kevin was a really holy pious man, he was envied through out the Wicklow mountains that he was so good and so pious and so holy...so all the girls came on to him. One day a woman followed him constantly to his cave, trying to get him to marry her, he eventually solved the problem by pushing her off a cliff. ,,..
Now I am worried about this...is the way to Sainthood murder!

 

Only if your victim was Mark Hughes before the season started.

 

No, that was Sutton Hoop, a real stream of consciousness merchant who I miss greatly. Swords as a literary figure......Enid Blyton.