BS: Happy St. Paddy's

Subject: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 10:35 AM

Ah! The one day in the year when I allow the O'Keefe part of me shine forth in all of its verdant glory.

Seamus and Mick, I wish I could see you play today!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 10:49 AM

Happy St Paddy's to you too Jack! (I'm partly a Duffy, so I can claim a lot of Oirish blood!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 10:56 AM

We sent the Mausers in 1916 but the British Postal service never delivered them!

I'm IBM.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 11:10 AM

Sláinte.

Gary John Owens

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 01:48 PM

Patrick

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 03:08 PM

Love to celebrate the Irish but I kinda mourn the loss of its Celtic religions to the christianization by St. Pat... but then again, since it wasn't at the point of a sword, it was fairly voluntary. But love that Irish music!

Ireland is the land of happy wars and sad love songs, quoth the bard.

Name the bard?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 03:10 PM

Richard Sheridan.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Musket
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 03:24 PM

No Irish blood in me.

However, I am in Dublin, and shall be here till Thursday.

I can report the black stuff is still as good a taste, and yes it does colour the other end still. Stew still contains pearl barley and white pudding comes with hotel breakfast, just as it did when I worked here, many moons ago.

If anyone is also here, I have the privilege of playing a short set on Wednesday night at the tourist trap home of music, Oliver St John Gogarty in Templebar. See you there, (I can't do anything Irish though, as they don't have a car park for me to dig a hole in...)

Oh Jaysus, I hope Michael didn't read that last bit....

Beer, music and good grub at Johnny Fox's tonight. (I found a tribute bar to Johnny Fox's in Vancouver a few years ago!)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 03:28 PM

Likewise..wish I had people here to celebrate..much more like to find the St. Urho's crowd where I live.

Anyway, here are to my ancestors..Garvey, Lyons, Devery, Crehan, Whalen and perhaps Quinn...a couple do sound distinctly French but they were originally..my sister always gets asked if she is French. Going to the land of the shamrock in one month.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 05:15 PM

A "tribute bar" What a quaint and charming name for a violation of intellectual property.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 08:02 PM

Drat...just realized I forgot to stop for a shamrock shake at McDonalds...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,Suzy Sockpuppet
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 08:10 PM

So Jim Carroll, what do you think about Crimea? What is democracy?

Why not an orderly referendum? Why must it be a staged coup?

And what of all these oligarchs? Like they are not all oligarchs? Sheesh.

They're all a bunch of crooked bastards! Every one of 'em. May as well get drunk.

What day is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 08:22 PM

Happy St. Paddy's? Of course!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 08:57 PM

I'm offended it's on a Monday this year.
There was a kid in the grocery store, shopping with his dad (I'd guess). He was rocking some awesome green hair. That's about as Saint Patrick-y as it got for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 09:25 PM

St. Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland-where is he when we need him, to drive a few snakes away fom Mudcat BS?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 11:14 PM

I'm always reminded of me "Irish side" of the family on St. Pats day.
I was a Lebensborn infant adopted by a Jewish GI with my new mother back in Illinois who later converted to Judaism, I was not exposed to much Irish culture. I first met my new mother's family around the age of 5 and was shown an enormous family bible. I didn't remember much about that huge family bible except some stories about wee small ancestors and a giant 7 foot tall great grandfather.

Beyond the sheer size I was struck with how the bible was stuffed with letters and notes that splayed the entire book half open. In my late 20s when granma died, I had an opportunity to go back and see the family bible again and took some notes of some family stories and copy a few queer liquor recipes written in fountain pen on near ancient brown paper.

One of the letters mention numerous locations which may have been the home of some very early Irish families. My notes included Moldendew town in the county of Waterlog and the Ballysecrant Dunway railway and a trip to Southie Park in Killkenny.

Notes on a family recipe for a medicine called 'ol bon' was incomplete and talked more about it going to England where it was sold in a black and tan can as Gold Bond.
The most interesting and detailed recipe was titled "The Key to Wheys". One of the more colorful steps said, "Harvest the spotted Rye and Barley where the turf shines greene at the risen of the moon. Steep with the heat of the turf and strain till clear." In big letters it said "NO MORE THAN THREE DROPS A BOTTLE." The only name mentioned in this bizarre witch's brew recipe was a Timothy O'Learhy.

All the other names seemed more Scottish than Irish on the born-died pages where some names dated back as far as 1630. One wedding between the Scanlon Clan and the Moran Clan suggested violence followed by a large gap in dates appeared. I don't know what any of this means but it seemed interesting although there was no relation at all.

The Jewish side of the family did not have any written records of the family perhaps because of the holocaust but I remember the group recollections to the many aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews who did not make it to America. Although I was only 5 I recall how they looked only at me when they told stories about family members killed by the Nazis how much attention I got when one of new aunts or uncles got me aside and asked if I knew my father's hair was black and mine as nearly white At any rate neither side of the families thought or behaved as if I was one of their own again.

It wasn't until I was 33 that a letter arrived from Germany suggesting a 3rd family was in the offing, but that's a different story.





All characters in this blarney story are fictitious and bear no relation to any person living or dead, to a degree.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 14 - 01:51 AM

We observed the day yesterday by playing Irish tunes on harp, guitar, recorder, flute and percussion. I found the tunes in O'Neill's music of Ireland, the song section.

Winsome Widow
Sweet Kathleen Machree
Pulse of my heart
Believe Me if All these Endearing Young Charms
The Charm Bracelet

Only two of us have any Irish blood, but that's enough. We had a fine time.

Today, the drunks pour into my part of town to celebrate the day. I wonder if they could even find Ireland on a map...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Musket
Date: 18 Mar 14 - 01:59 PM

No violation of intellectual property Jack. The canny buggers sold the franchise., as I found out when I popped in for Guinness salvation.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Mar 14 - 02:16 PM

March 18- Irish National Hangover Day!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Shicker as a goy day
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 10:45 AM

Yesterday I watched the most beautiful Judy Collions Irish concert.

Glockamora was angelic but Amazing Grace whas amazing.

I learned that the man who wrote Amazing Grace was indeed Irish but most monumental of all is that he had been a SLAVE SHIP CAPTAIN.

Is it just me or should more people know this?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 11:15 AM

That guy's life gets more colorful every time I hear about it. Enjoy the song and take the rest with a grain of salt, Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 11:41 AM

Now you mention it, I recall hearing about the origins of Amazing Grace. Yep,slave dude contemplating society attitudes. I'm in Dublin and wish I could hear it. Every pub, bar, restaurant and cafe, all you can hear is Galway Girl!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: meself
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 12:07 PM

.... um .... I think more people already know that .... first I've heard about Newton being Irish, though ....

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Paddy's
From: Musket
Date: 19 Mar 14 - 12:30 PM

Newton was a yellow belly. Lincolnshire lad