St Patrick's day in Poland

Im gonna read more about this story.

That's what he said. It would be more compelling if he said it in front of witnesses BEFORE he got on that ship.
I can play that I had a dream game all day long. Retroactively is best if you want 100% accuracy.

It's worth reading about. He was a very special person, and sometimes dreams like that really do happen.

...and sometimes those who have such dreams lie. Really.

Here's a good account of it:
ireland-information.com/articles/saintpatrick.htm

There's a theory now that he wasn't abducted and taken as a slave, but was instead fleeing the draft (he was from a high-status Romano-British family and so was expected to do military service). Most work was close to slavery in Patrick's lifetime so there may not have been much difference.

Patrick is beautifully woven into the mythology and legends of pagan Ireland too.

For example, if you read the legend of Tír na nÓg and the ill-fated lovers Oisin and Niamh, the great warrior Oisin comes back to Ireland from the land of eternal youth, Tír na nÓg, but as he bends from his horse to help an old man move a heavy stone, his stirrup breaks and his foot touches the ground, whereupon he is transformed from the young prince he was, to his true age which is many hundreds of years old. (In some versions he falls from his horse.) The local people run to fetch Patrick and Oisin dies under Patrick's care having been converted to the Catholic faith, but also having passed on to Patrick, the tales of the Fianna, the great warriors of ancient Ireland.

One of the lovely and unique things about Irish Christianity was the respect it kept for the old legends and Pagan faith. The monks wrote down and preserved the entire cycle of legends (it puts Lord of the Rings to shame!) at the same time that they were making copies of the Bible.

Especially for Atch on this, her special day, the first of several planned videos....

Did they ever sell Irish Spring in Ireland? Inquiring minds want to know!

youtube.com/watch?v=y9iaMIaiVVk

Here's a slightly updated version...

youtube.com/watch?v=sQk-imB1m2k

Extremely realistic portrayals of modern Ireland...

youtube.com/watch?v=RTmYaASMFcw

A Thiarna, dein trócaire orainn ............... ach go raibh maith agat :)

And no, they never sold Irish Spring in Ireland!

Continuing with the Irish theme today.... an important work in representing the Irish in the US was the 1927 silent movie The Callahans and the Murphys, a comedy about feuding matriarchs... originally successful it was pulled from distribution due to the Irish American lobby thinking it portrayed Irish Americans as quarrlesome drunks..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Callahans_and_the_Murphys

Recently a few minutes of the otherwise lost film were found....

ifiarchiveplayer.ie/callahans-murphys/

The film helped revive the career of Marie Dressler who went on to become one of Hollywood's most popular stars in the early 1930s even though she was neither young nor beautiful.

Why the hell would Poland celebrate St. P day?

What's next? Sitting Bull Day? How about Genghis Khan Day?

Why wouldn't they? There are plenty of links between the two nations and while the average Pole wouldn't know the historic connections, Poles generally like Irish people and Irish culture.

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh go léir to anyone who is celebrating today, wherever you may be, Irish roots or not.

So what exactly are we celebrating?

Irish culture I suppose really.

Like this?

Were 'Lucky Charms' ever sold in Ireland?

They are a breakfast cereal with marshmallow 'charms' mixed in... and the mascot is a plucky little leprechuan "Lucky" always being chased by children...

youtube.com/watch?v=lWqPmhSv7k8

youtube.com/watch?v=TsmIRFdhWMM

No :)) but I've heard of them.


No, like this:



youtube.com/watch?v=6s8lvnSmISc

Full church, is it during mass?

Good old Lisa O'Neill released one of the best albums I've heard in years last February called All of This Is Chance

@Alien
Yeah, funeral Mass caused a lot of pearl clutching at the time from the usual suspects.

A song that's all but in the US (AFAIK) I first heard it a couple of years ago in Malta around Christmastime... this last year it was also in heavy rotation (different hotel). I'm glad they sang the original version in the video you posted and not the PC one.

Probably no writer did more to cement the American stereotype of the Irish as morose alchoholics as Eugene O'Neill... (Irish American playwright). His autobiographical play "Long Day's Journey into Night" is a devastating portrayal of family dysfunction and addiction.

The whole play is on youtube in various versions including the 1962 movie version, which features maybe the greatest performance by Katherine Hepburn.... (which is saying something)

youtube.com/watch?v=vaRD1IAVRVY

The clue is in the name...

Sorry, that was an editing glitch. I meant "all but unknown in the US" which is ironic given the name of the song....

@mafketis
Didn't mean any offence.

Is fairy tale...not known in the US? Thats surprising yet U2 are massive, you learn something new every day.

You mean settler colonialism culture.

On St. Patrick's Day in 1768, enslaved people in the Caribbean planned an uprising hoping their Irish overseers would be too drunk to interfere

Every year on St. Patrick's Day, Montserrat, a Caribbean island, acknowledges its early Irish influence while honoring the enslaved people who rebelled against it.

ca.news.yahoo.com/st-patricks-day-1768-enslaved-161500329.html

No problemo. And no. I'd never heard of it until a couple of years ago in Malta...the wikipedia page doesn't list it as ever having charted in the US... great song but not so much to American tastes... the Pogues had a kind of niche following maybe among some college students but nothing beyond that.

Getting to Poland and Ireland. One of the biggest Polish rock hits of all time is probably Kocham cię jak Irlandię by Kobranocka (1990) which has nothing to do with Ireland.

youtube.com/watch?v=hdUWHSlvgxg

Another song that has nothing to do with Ireland is "Irlandia zielona" (1995ish) by a forgotten group Kowalski.... it's one of my favorite Polish songs from the 1990s.

As mentioned it's not about Ireland at all but a regular guy unhappy with his 'gray life' who dreams of escape to Ireland (not the real place somewhere in his imagination).

youtube.com/watch?v=T8zaGmnMTRI

the chorus goes.

A Irlandia podobno jest taka zielona
jak włosy syreny o świcie
za jej czułe westchnienia i białe ramiona
moja szare oddałbym życie
A Irlandia podobno jest taka szalona
jak wiatr co ma czapkę podartą
za jej czułe westchnienia białe ramiona
moje nudne życie oddać warto.

my rough translation
And Ireland, they say, is just as green
as a mermaid's hair at dawn
for her tender sighs and white arms
I would give up my gray life
And Ireland they say is as crazy
like a wind with a torn hat
for her tender sighs and white arms
Giving up my boring life would be worth it.

Jim Sheridan opens the Belgrade Irish Festival in March

cordmagazine.com/upcoming-events/jim-sheridan-opens-the-belgrade-irish-festival-in-march/



Guest from Ireland: famous director Jim Sheridan

12TH BELGRADE IRISH FESTIVAL IS OFFICIALLY OPENED

Irish director and screenwriter Jim Sheridan was awarded the Golden Seal of the Yugoslav Film Archive (Jugoslovenska Kinoteka) for his outstanding contribution to the film art at the opening of the 12th Belgrade Irish Festival (BIF). The award was presented to him by Ksenija Zelenović, the editor of the film program at this institution, on behalf of the Film Archive. Addressing the audience, Sheridan expressed his delight at being back in Serbia and hoped that Serbia would remain open to the world. Following the award ceremony, the audience attended a screening of the film "My Left Foot," which brought Sheridan and Irish cinema to worldwide acclaim. The film is a true story about the Irish poet and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy and could only use his left foot. According to Sheridan, this film symbolizes perseverance and significantly influenced the perception of people with developmental disabilities in Ireland.......

eng.belgradeirishfestival.rs/news/

Good interview,
Sheridan explained it well,
what are the true values,
without which society cannot exist.

Barney and Atch could learn something from him.
An Irishman needed to give you a lesson on nationalism! This man is not ashamed of himself or his roots.

Happy St. Patrick's day to all who are celebrating!

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Thats excellent. I don't know why I think this but its surprisingly good. Its on Spotify 174667 listens

I will celebrate Irish culture when the Irish learn how to shoot the invading army of useless people nobody wants.

I'm happy and content being Irish I don't however think my country is better than others.
You confuse love of place and country with bollox.

Then you need this short course...

Let me explain...Everything white is better...That's why darker scum is invading white places, not the other way around.

White people, like women in Lifetime movies, can artfully combine education and stupidity like no other race. Blacks are not that stupid. They know that the UK and Ireland are better than the sh*holes they are in.