Happy St. Patrick's Day 2016

[W!nston]

"May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future"

:cheers:​

 

[haiducii]

 

[cacc]

Day really snuck up on me, hope my fellow Irishmen all have a wonderful day.

 

[topdog]

Find an Irish lad and and make him happy tonight!

 

[tonka]

I forgot about the day...and I'm Boston Irish!

I didn't have any green on, so my work friend and I found some green stickers. We cut out shamrocks and pretended they were arm tattoos.

 

[havocs]

Happy St. Patrick's day!

 

[toasteryes]

Yes happy St Patricks!!p

 

[gb2000ie]

Here in Ireland the day is almost over, but I hope everyone celebrating enjoys what's left of the day!

honestly, it's not one myself or my Irish hubby celebrate. The traditional meaning is about the destruction of Irish pagan society by Christians, and, well, Irish Pagan society was a heck of a lot more enlightened a place than Christian Ireland - so to me Patrick represents the death of true Irishness. Not much to celebrate.

The modern meaning is just amplifying all the stereotypes I find insulting and detestable. Stupid drunken paddy talking with a silly voice saying funny things. Begorra and begosh and all that shite!

Like I say, if you have fun today, have fun! I'll be over there in the corner doing my best to ignore the drunken spectacle my felow Irishmen are making of themselves.

B.

 

[topdog]

...The traditional meaning is about the destruction of Irish pagan society by Christians, and, well, Irish Pagan society was a heck of a lot more enlightened a place than Christian Ireland - so to me Patrick represents the death of true Irishness. Not much to celebrate..

Speaking of pre-Patrick Ireland, I saw this in the paper this morning. Those pagan Celt's might be getting more credit than they are due.

A man’s discovery of bones under his pub could forever change what we know about the Irish

...From as far back as the 16th century, historians taught that the Irish are the descendants of the Celts, an Iron Age people who originated in the middle of Europe and invaded Ireland somewhere between 1000 B.C. and 500 B.C...

Yet the bones discovered behind McCuaig’s tell a different story of Irish origins, and it does not include the Celts.

“The DNA evidence based on those bones completely upends the traditional view,” said Barry Cunliffe, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Oxford who has written books on the origins of the people of Ireland.

DNA research indicates that the three skeletons found behind McCuaig's are the ancestors of the modern Irish and they predate the Celts and their purported arrival by 1,000 years or more. The genetic roots of today's Irish, in other words, existed in Ireland before the Celts arrived...

Radiocarbon dating shows that the bones discovered at McCuaig's go back to about 2000 B.C. That makes them hundreds of years older than the oldest artifacts generally considered to be Celtic...

For a group of scholars who in recent years have alleged that the Celts, beginning from the middle of Europe, may never have reached Ireland, the arrival of the DNA evidence provides the biological certitude that the science has sometimes brought to criminal trials.

“With the genetic evidence, the old model is completely shot,” John Koch, a linguist at the Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales...

“The genomes of the contemporary people in Ireland are older — much older — than we previously thought,” he said.

 

[zortek]

hmmm .... the tuatha de danaan ??

still there, but sideways to the sun ... ???

 

[haiducii]

NYPD officer and dog enjoying St. Patrick’s day

 

[gb2000ie]

It's been becoming ever clearer for quite some time now that the Irish are not genetically celtic. This latest discovery adds extra weight to the argument, but that argument was already compelling a decade or more ago.

Genes do not a culature make though!

Ireland may not be genetically celtic, but ideas can travel independent of genes. You can still have a celtic culture spreading across Europe without the need for Swiss semen impregnating all around.

The fixation on genetics seems to totally miss the point. Why do we assume ideas and culture can only spread father to son?

B.

 

[sallywoppy]

same to you

 

[haiducii]

This Guy's Reaction to St. Patrick's Day is AMAZING

 

[Hyp]

Hmmm, I always assumed that St. Patrick's Day was mostly an American thin, that imigrants from Ireland to America had turned a minor religious holiday into a celebration of their heritage.

So St. Patrick's Day is widely celebrated in Ireland?

 

[gb2000ie]

Hmmm, I always assumed that St. Patrick's Day was mostly an American thin, that imigrants from Ireland to America had turned a minor religious holiday into a celebration of their heritage.

So St. Patrick's Day is widely celebrated in Ireland?

Very much so - since the war of independence from the UK it has transformed from a religious event into the Irish version of the 4th of July - it's all about the flag of the Irish republic - the green white and orange tricolour. When I was a kid we were all still expected to go to mass in the morning, because the Irish Republic and the Catholic Church were MUCH too tightly bound for anyone's good, but that is mostly gone now - the streets are full, the pubs are overflowing, and the churches are empty.

It's a public holiday too, so everyone gets the day off work. Every town of any decent size has a parade, it's definitely a huge deal over here.

B.

 

[Ioanna]

Sorry guys that I (again) decay the fun but this is an international site and not everyone knows what it means St Patrick's Day.
A small intro is always welcome ... with this I want to take this task on me because I attach great importance to.
I also want to apologize for this to the creator of this subject our friend Sniffit.
PS below info is completely copied from Wikipedia.





St. Patrick's Day (Irish Gaelic: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is the national holiday of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador. The holiday falls on March 17, which commemorates the patron saint of the country, St. Patrick. Everywhere in Ireland this is celebrated with outdoor concerts, carnival, a big parade and fireworks on the River Liffey in Dublin. Green is the color that is associated with the festival. Partygoers usually wear green clothing and example, one can buy green beer on this day.

St. Patrick's Day is also celebrated in the US and Australia, countries where many Irish people have emigrated to. In these countries, many large marches organized. New York is the oldest and largest parade in the world place, but also held in Dublin and other Irish cities are parades.

In many countries, is an annual growing group of people celebrating St. Patrick's Day; not just Irish or those with Irish ancestors. There is also a group with no Irish roots, who declare themselves "Irish for the day; as the former mayor of New York, Ed Koch, himself once renamed "Ed" Oh Koch 'for St. Patrick.

It is also a tradition that the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) and the United States President on St. Patrick's Day have consultations on the progress of the peace process in Ireland, and more broadly on the impact of world events.

St. Patrick's Day is not only connected to Irish culture, but also is a Christian festival celebrated by the Catholic Church, the Irish Church and other Anglican Churches. This holiday falls almost always during Lent and can sometimes fall into the so-called Holy Week. Is St. Patrick's Day in such a week, the holiday is moved to the second Monday after Easter.

 

[Ioanna]

Chicago River



Windmill Ireland

 

[Ioanna]

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The eye of London UK

 

[Ioanna]

Hallgrimskirkja Iceland



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