BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

Subject: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 01:01 PM

Tabhair dom an rud céanna mar atá ag an fhear ar an t-úrlar!

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: Thompson
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 01:11 PM

Agus domsa; agus duitse arís.

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 01:34 PM

Sláinte mhaith.

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 01:49 PM

When my father retired from being a navvy he continued to help his former mates to organise themselves to win better conditions on the sites, so when they were working locally, he approached a local priest to allow them to hold meetings in the local church hall - this would be around the time when Bingo became a popular fund-raiser for the church.
A family story has it that he returned from one of these meetings and told the family - "They have a new game over the road; everybody is given a card with numbers on it; the priest calls out numbers, which they cross out, and whoever gets all the numbers wins some money, but he calls out the numbers in Gaeilge so the Protestants can't win".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 02:07 PM

Enjoying my first Guinness of the night and at the session that starts soon, I've spent most of the day preparing by reminding my mandolin and guitar of lots of jigs, reels, slip jigs and even a Kerry slide.   The diddly doo starts at 8.30.

I know, but it's fun once a year.

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 02:38 PM

Lotta green goin on here. I was only as far as the grocery store but all the employees and many customers were clad in celebratory fashion (how odd?). At least half of NB's population is of at least partly Irish descent. Some even Irish decent. I fit into the former, I suppose... my old man told me that our name was Owen but made Owens as the 's' was branded on the end of the name for sheep stealing. If I could go back in time and talk with great, great Edward, I would ask him "WTF? Why not California?" Then again, I wouldn't be half LeBlanc nor even know how LeBlanc is pronounced properly.

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 17 Mar 16 - 03:36 PM

@JimCarroll

The irony in your story, of course, is that much of the preservation and early revival of the Irish language in the late 19C. was led by Protestant clergymen and antiquarians (including Presbyterian, to split a hair that Irish people tend to leave entangled). Following the IRB takeover of the Gaelic League, it ended up in the tender care of such bodies as the Irish Christian Brothers - from whom I learned my none-too-mellifluous Munster Irish. I remain eternally grateful...

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 03:05 AM

I have no doubt you're right Martin.
I've often wondered about the post-Independence teaching of Irish; how did so many people end up hating Peig Sayers?
I'm sure she didn't do anybody any harm.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 04:19 AM

Poor teaching with often dubious motivation, using unsuitable materials - in a nutshell.

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 12:24 PM

It was on the radio that the parade went as scheduled, and for once the, what is it, the LGBT -- you can tell I'm not one, I don't know how to spell it -- was allowed to have its own presence within the parade. The group spokesman said he had reached the point where he believed, after his years of protests and being repeatedly arrested, that he would never see the day.

Subject: RE: BS: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 18 Mar 16 - 06:38 PM

I think I made a record 9 Irish pubs yesterday... and ran into a bunch of cops in kilts with bagpipes, too!