St Patrick's day in Poland

Still, just hoist a few frosties and enjoy the day!
Slante:-)

St. Patrick was actually British.
His real name was Maewyn Succat.
Maewyn Succat was his name until he changed it to Patrick when he became a bishop.
March 17 is not Saint Patrick's birthday.
St. Patrick's Day observers who might have thought they were celebrating the saint's birthday will be surprised to learn that March 17, 461 AD is actually the day he died.

All the bars are closed down for St.Patricks Days due to the ChinaVirus, really bad timing for all the business owners as well.

They canceled the 2 Parades and the dying of the Chicago River. A long tradition attended by huge crowds.

Are the bars closed in Ireland? Poland??

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Yes. All closed.

Lets hope for better times next year......Slainte!

Slainte!

In Ireland too. Their Health Minister closed them down after seeing how people partied in one of them despite warnings. He got immensely pissed off and ordered the closure of all of them.

Quite right, Johnny!
For those with a death wish, I dare 'em to walk into any Irish pub, anywhere in the world, proclaiming, "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, SAINT PADDY WAS AN ENGLISHMAN!"

lol

What? Incredible. It is as if John Paul II had been Russian.

True though.
He was in point of fact a slave of the Romans, taken to Ireland as an adult.

Yes. Born in Somerset to a family wealthy enough to have him educated.


It's quite likely that some of his distant ancestors were. One of his surviving family members is a Protestant married to a Jewish lady.

Spot on!

I hope you have a good pair of sneakers, you will need to do the 50 yard dash! lol

It should be said that in his famous Confessio, he doesn't always speak especially highly about the people of Ireland. He was more concerned about their souls than anything else.

who does? (ducking whatever Atch is about to throw)

But it is still quite far from Russian. I mean ethnic Russians, not Russian Jews or Russian Germans. :)

St Patrick though was a great traveller. I wonder if he was truly celibate or whether his genes continue to today.


The Tsar of All the Russias had a lot of Russias under his wing, from Łódż to Vladivostok. Never got as far as Ireland though (although the Cap of Monomakh spent 20 years in a cardboard box in someone's attic in Dublin)...

A few days late, but here's a recipe for Irish Stew from an American historical cooking channel. The recipe comes from an Irish language cookbook from 1900...

He talks a lot about Irish history and the famine so there will be lots of things for Atch to complain about, too!

youtube.com/watch?v=S8KpFs1CHgw

Quoting Wikipedia:

The historian Cecil Woodham-Smith wrote in The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 that no issue has provoked so much anger and embittered relations between England and Ireland "as the indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation"

Somehow, I knew before I googled "Irish famine" that sooner or later I will see the evil hand of the ruling English scum as the reason why so many starved and died.

I do! Ha, ha! :))


You can't knock the recipe, it's authentic :) And we still have contact with the Choctaw. The Irish people sent them donations last year during the first wave of Covid 19. There's a lovely sculpture dedicated to them in Co Cork.


Not that simple.

A Polish nobleman, Paweł Edmund Strzelecki is also honoured in Ireland for his efforts to provide relief during the Famine. He was actually distributing funds on behalf of a private British charity - that's an example of understanding the difference between the British government and 'the British'.

Halito!

There's a non-trivial chance (70 or so per cent) that I have some Choctaw ancestry (on my father's side so it doesn't count).

Lots of Americans have family lore about American Indian ancestry and most of it is... not true. But my father did have some of the look (including jet black hair and he had a fair resemblance to a famous leader) and he came from an area where there were Choctaw (and he knew a bunch of Choctaw lore supposedly from his grandmother). My mother used to occasionally pester me about joining the tribe but they only do descent matrilineally so I never bothered.

I would be tempted to do a dna test but I don't want that info shared with governments....

I assume this means I would be given a hero's welcome in Ireland and given the run of the place....

What is simple is that rotting potatoes alone would not kill millions. That was man-made and the killers were the government.
Just like today with covid.

I just checked and they don't specify matrilineal descent, just lineal descent. Could it have changed? My sister's husband is a member of the Blackfeet tribe by adoption. He lived with them for two years in Montana and they gave him membership after that. He has the feathers and the whole kit and caboodle :) It's actually really lovely watching him when he does his offerings and prayers to 'Mother Earth' and 'Father Sky'.


Why? On a point of principal? Or do you think they'll do something sinister with it? I can't imagine what that could be. Sod them. If you're a Choctaw, you should know about it.


You'd get that anyway. Just tell them Atch sent you ;)

Basically, there's enough surveillance going on now, no need to contribute. And the companies that do that should not be rewarded.

Yes, they've been closed for a year. The ones who serve food ie a full hot dinner, which very few do, were allowed to reopen for a few weeks but what we call the 'wet pubs' have not reopened and there's a real fear that some of them never will. Pubs that have been in the same family for generations will be gone - very sad.

St Patrick was a gentleman, happy to live and work far from Rome. And he loved his people more then he loved Rome. Its seen from his deeds. So, Rome declared St Patrick a Saint so Rome also profit on his name. That`s how they do things. Only question is where are they there, in profit.

Don't be sad. They will be back in business under new owners. The previous ones, broke and desperate, will be their customers - getting ready to re-elect the covid terrorists who made them "previous".

Not at all. They are just buildings that will be repurposed to reflect and serve the needs of modern, diverse, and progressive Ireland.

I wont be surprised if Obama become owner of some old pub. That will send clear message to public that progressive changes came to Ireland.

Don't try to do irony/sarcasm, Pollyanna. You're not nearly clever enough to pull that one off :) Actually one of the areas where Ireland has always scored is our ability to Gaelicize people who settle there. It happened with the Vikings, they assimilated completely, as did the Normans and even the Cromwellian settlers either left or just became properly Irish.

Some people worry that by focusing on Inclusion and Diversity we will water down the GAA, making it into something that caters for everything and stands for nothing. This is most definitely not what Inclusion and Diversity are about.

The GAA remains the Gaelic Athletic Association. That means we're proud of and celebrate our Irishness; that we focus on Gaelic Ga mes and activities; that we're community-based; and that we cherish our amateur an d volunteer bases. We don't compromise on those fundamentals. The GAA Club doesn't become a one-size-fits- all organisation. The few ethnic minorities we have in Ireland tend to integrate well. They're welcome to identify as Irish, simple as that. The Gaelic Athletic Association puts it very well:

Some people worry that by focusing on Inclusion and Diversity we will water down the GAA, making it into something that caters for everything and stands for nothing. This is most definitely not what Inclusion and Diversity are about.

The GAA remains the Gaelic Athletic Association. That means we're proud of and celebrate our Irishness; that we focus on Gaelic Games and activities; that we're community-based; and that we cherish our amateur an d volunteer bases. We don't compromise on those fundamentals. The GAA Club doesn't become a one-size-fits- all organisation.

We remain and are proud of what we are but in doing so and in remaining true to all that, we should be open and welcoming to others.