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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
in All Saints
For all who celebrate it, a very happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! Is anyone doing anything for it this year?

(I only made potatoes, bacon and cabbage last week…)

Also, a very happy Saint Gertrude’s day – she’s the patron saint of cats! 🐈

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  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Happy St. Patrick's Day to you too. I'm getting corned beef and cabbage for lunch. That's the extent of my celebrating.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Our city brands itself, amongst other things, as Canada's most Irish city.
  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

    As well as the lovely and most splendiferous Pádraig, also commemorated among the Saints this day are St Alexius the Man of God, who may or may not have been from Rome, St Withburga of Holkham and East Dereham - who may not have been of the East Anglian royal family - and St Parthenius of Kyiv (1855) who wrote some tremendous and very challenging - in a good way - prayers.

    Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers and Mothers, Lord Jesus Christ our God have mercy upon us and save us!
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t make much of a ripple in my corner of the US, except in Irish-themed bars or restaurants. (Not that there are many of those; the one I’m familiar is owned and run by a Dubliner and frequented by ex-pats.) Some bakers may bake soda bread. Otherwise, noting the day is pretty much limited to wearing some green. I’m sitting in a coffee shop right now, and there are about a dozen other people here. Only one is wearing any green. Whether that’s intentional or coincidental, I can’t say.

  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    I went to a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh last Friday, and I've had Black Velvet Band running round my head ever since as it was one of the songs the band sang in between playing for the dances.
    Not a lot happening here, a few cafes seem to have put on specials but not the one I went to for lunch.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Poor old Patrick wasn't even Irish, and couldn't even claim Irish citizenship through his grandfather. That's what lets me claim to be more Irish than St Patrick!
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Mrs Gramps just announced she is making a beer bread tonight.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    I'd wanted to go to the St Patrick's Festival in London on Sunday but the railway system wasn't co-operating. Next year, hopefully. Dinner has been vegetarian sausages, red cabbage and mash. I didn't make a brack this year. But I have been wearing green.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    Happy St. Patrick's Day. It is also my dog Molly's birthday, so treats all around. On another note, this always brings a tear to my eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLzIeztC3c
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Caissa wrote: »
    Our city brands itself, amongst other things, as Canada's most Irish city.

    Really? Have you ever heard the Newfoundland accent? It could be straight from Cork! 🙂

    My nod to St Patrick was a green jumper and green boots.
  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    I've never understood why people make a big deal about St Patrick not being Irish.

    St George wasn't English (nor Russian nor the nationality of most countries he's patron Saint of).

    St Andrew wasn't Scottish.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Of course you are right - it's no big deal at all, but that's not how it comes across on the day when we laugh at each other's competitive Irishness. Our St Patrick's Day event was a funeral mass at St Patrick's Church here in town. Neither of us had ever been to an RC funeral before - very different from the familiar Presbyterian way of doing it.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Stercus Tauri wrote: »
    Of course you are right - it's no big deal at all, but that's not how it comes across on the day when we laugh at each other's competitive Irishness.

    I literally just saw this from The Onion, which you may also find amusing.

    https://theonion.com/irish-americans-gear-up-for-the-reinforcin-o-the-stereo-1819586600/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=Global+Tetrahedron+LLC+dba+The+Onion&utm_campaign=9cc68f0578-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_18_03_38_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-e87d18f918-492012335&mc_cid=9cc68f0578&mc_eid=3929610507

  • LatchKeyKidLatchKeyKid Shipmate
    We usually hear about parades, but the day had already gone before I could notice it.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    We drifted into an Irish song theme at our weekly singing group - Mountains of Mourne, Curragh of Kildare, The Irish Rover, and a song about Lisdoonvarna (not the Christy Moore one). One lady dredged up Danny Boy and a song to St Patrick that she learned in Sunday School from her distant memory!
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    In answer to Piglet's query above: https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/which-city-in-canada-has-the-biggest-irish-influence/
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Interesting! Thanks Caissa.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    The gentle citizens of Waterloo, Ontario live in fear, anticipating unspeakable horrors every year on St Patrick's Day as the students unwind a little. It is true, drinking has been known to occur. But the brave and well-armed constabulary are up for anything and are fully prepared. The weather, however, was bloody awful this year, and it fizzled out.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/police-say-operational-plan-remains-in-place-for-st-patricks-day-celebrations-in-waterloo/
  • mark_in_manchestermark_in_manchester Shipmate
    Sarasa wrote: »
    I went to a St. Patrick's Day ceilidh last Friday, and I've had Black Velvet Band running round my head ever since as it was one of the songs the band sang in between playing for the dances.

    'In a neat little town they call Belfast, apprentice to trade I was bound...'

    It's contagious. Thanks so much :-)

    (I used to do this one with a community music group I ran, and Whiskey in the Jar too...arrghhh!)
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