Happy St. Patrick's Day

Rocker

As per title, have a good one.

duotone

Cheers!

Meeting a few friends for lunch and heading to a pub for the Rugby tomorrow. 2.45pm kickoff.  My Birthday is Sunday, so will be a bit of an early celebration, regardless of the score line.

Have a great day all!

bingefeller

Happy St Pat's!

zepp76

Happy St Patrick's day! This will be my third year dry, I do miss getting rat arsed on St Paddy's day, I always had a great time but alas I must stay clean.

poopot

And to you sir!...

we we will be spending the evening entertaining the masses with our versions of hits by some of the greatest Irish artists and bands... “stevie O’wonder”, “James O’brown“, “primal O’’scream” to name but a few!... may even throw in a couple by “Bono” (jovi that is)!...

mrkb

Thanks, but I’m English, so I don’t believe in it.

ToneControl

mrkb said:

Thanks, but I’m English, so I don’t believe in it.

so was St Patrick

mrkb

ToneControl said:

mrkb said:

Thanks, but I’m English, so I don’t believe in it.

so was St Patrick

Wow, didn’t know that, so we should have had him rather than that Greek George bloke? Who makes up which ‘saint’ we get, some dodgy religious committee?

VimFuego

mrkb said:

ToneControl said:

mrkb said:

Thanks, but I’m English, so I don’t believe in it.

so was St Patrick

Wow, didn’t know that, so we should have had him rather than that Greek George bloke? Who makes up which ‘saint’ we get, some dodgy religious committee?

if you were of a cynical frame of mind (which, clearly no one here is) you'd come to the conclusion that the whole thing is a load of made up, superstitious nonsense. 
IIRC, the only patron saint who actually hails from the country he's saint of is David. I seem to recall Andrew was a russian or something. 

Phil_aka_Pip

ToneControl said:

mrkb said:

Thanks, but I’m English, so I don’t believe in it.

so was St Patrick

I thought he was Welsh

Anyway, with a Great Grandma from the O'Donovans in Skibbereen, I feel perhaps 1/8 entitlted to wish @Rocker and everyone else a Happy St Paddy's Day. It's a good excuse to have a Guinness later on ...

EricTheWeary

According to the news this morning the most celebrated saints day in the world. Not sure how they arrive at that. 
Anyway, hope everyone participating has a good day. 

MagicPigDetective

I wish St David’s day was a worldwide pissup. Instead we just wear daffodils and dress our kids in silly costumes. 

Flink_Poyd

Happy St Pattys day if you're 'merican

57Deluxe

Bugger St Patrick and his silly green hats...

Nitefly

Thank you @Rocker and the same to you!

I'm going to celebrate tonight by going out for a curry.

mbe

Happy St. Patrick'Stewart Day everyone.

Nunogilberto

Happy St Patrick’s Day to you Irish - if you’re not, get off that bloody bandwagon...

midlifecrisis

gigging tonight at a very non irish pub but are doing all the usual guiness/st paddy promo stuff. we've been asked to throw in some irish tunes if poss,. we do thin lizzy, and cranberys and will do galway girl (steve earle version) and thats about it

Phil_aka_Pip

@midlifecrisis Horslips? Gary Moore? The Corrs?

midlifecrisis

Phil_aka_Pip said:

@midlifecrisis Horslips? Gary Moore? The Corrs?

all great artists but sadly not on our repetoire. maybe some dubliners irish rover singalong stuff. we do waterboys, fishermans blues (not sure how irish that is but seems appropriate.

Rocker

We in Ireland believe that St Patrick came from Wales. And that he was a student of St David. In those days, Ireland had hundreds of self contained clans, most of whom performed raids on neighboring clans. Those on the East coast of Ireland, raided Wales and England. Same as Rye and the French. Those raids brought back booty and slaves so Patrick ended up a slave in Ireland. 

The legend has it that Patrick escaped and ended up back in Wales. Following his studies, he had a dream to convert Ireland to Christianity. For that work he would not have ventured alone, probably had a large support group and lots of horses. His work was very successful though nobody believes that he was the first to attempt to bring Christianity to Ireland. 

It id doubtful if he wore the clothes and mitre of a Bishop. And the snakes legend could not be true as it appears the ice age dealt with them. The image we have of Patrick is probably an artistic creation, painted hundreds of years after his time.