St. Patty's Day Plans?????

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St. Patty's Day Plans?????
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 8:42pm

What are you guys all doing for St. Patty's Day?

 

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Registered: 12-02-2003
Thu, 03-11-2004 - 11:30pm
On St. Patrick's Day, my husband ALWAYS drinks 3 cans of Guinness (YUCK! I hate beer-especially when it's so thick you can chew it) and makes ham and cabbage. That's the ONE day of the year when I am allowed to listen to my Celtic/Irish music without him rolling his eyes. We'll have Irish coffee in the morning (we don't usually start drinking at 10 a.m. I SWEAR!). I have an old felt shamrock that gets hidden the night before and whichever child finds it gets to wear my grandfather's shamrock pin to school. (this is something I did when I was a child, and that I continue with my kids). Rob and I will go to the Alley here in town (which is a string of bars all within walking distance of one another) after he gets off of work.


Beannachtai na feile Padraig

(Happy Saint Patrick's Day)

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Registered: 09-04-2003
Fri, 03-12-2004 - 9:33am
Yikes, Rely, I'm shopping for something green immediately! Just don't make me drink Guinness. I'm Irish, but there are limits, my dear...

Our handsome young Irish mayor here in Baltimore is also in a Celtic rock band, so I'm seeing him with some friends the day before SPD. So on the actual day I'll either be severely hung over... or ready to go again!

Mickie

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Fri, 03-12-2004 - 9:57am
Wow, you guys go all out for St.Patrick's Day. Up here it's more of an annoyance than anything.

This year I really want to go into the city and go to the ONLY Irish Pub there called 'The Blarney Stone' and go have some green beer with my bro. And wear something green.

Have fun everyone!

~Dana

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Registered: 06-16-2003
Fri, 03-12-2004 - 10:29am
Well, that day we decided to have the March bday party at school, so I am hosting another eat-fest. We are having an Irish/down-home cookin' meal(we have to have soul food--it's Tennessee) and then we are having cupcakes for dessert. Then I'll probably have to work that night*rolls eyes*

Sara

~Sayruhb02
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 03-12-2004 - 11:08am
We're not Irish so we dont normally do anything special for it.

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Fri, 03-12-2004 - 1:41pm
An ANNOYANCE! My ancestors would roll over in their graves. When I was a kid we always had St. Patrick's Day dinner with my Grandpa and he'd tell us GREAT stories (which were probably mostly untrue, since storytelling is SUCH an Irish tradition). He told us about bean tighes, Irish faeries that look like little grandmothers and protect households and children and might do your chores for you if you left them a treat. When my grandfather was young he and his siblings used to reenact St. Patrick's kidnapping from Britain, and slavery in Ireland, and then his return to Ireland. We always have a huge to-do to celebrate St. Patrick.
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Fri, 03-12-2004 - 8:06pm

That is so awesome Mel that you know a bit about your history.

 
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Registered: 05-08-2003
Fri, 03-12-2004 - 9:19pm

I am doing stand up comedy.

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Fri, 03-12-2004 - 9:25pm
Hey, Devine, where in Boston are you going to be? Not that I 'll be able to get within 10 miles of the place on St. Patty's day, but maybe I can try!

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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Fri, 03-12-2004 - 11:17pm
When I was in 8th grade my class was assigned a family history project, and my best friend and I were at the library doing our research together. At one point I couldn't find my index card for a cousin of my grandpa's and said "Hey, where's the card for Marion (last name excluded because she's still alive)". Pammy looked at me and said "WHY are you looking for my grandmother's card?". We'd been best friends since the 5th grade and never knew we were cousins! Since then I have been HOOKED on genealogy! I've gone back in my direct line, with sources, as far back as a Viking king named Gorm, and then back into the High Kings of Ireland but am still looking for more sources on those ancestors. My Mead ancestors came to America from England in 1635 and are prominent in the history of Connecticut. Most recently I have been working on Rob's lines and found that some of his ancestors came to America in the early 1700's from Ireland- the same county where my family is from! If you ever decide to research your lines, let me know- I can direct you to lots of research sites and such.

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