Category: Let's talk
As Glasgow has gone Ireland daft today, mind you the city has a huge Irish poplulation, I'd like to ask what St Patrick's Day means to the Irish...
..do you celebrate it with the same excitement as the punters in Failte,or do you just think ah well its nothing special,...
Well I'm American but the family's one hundred percent Irish so we celebrate a lot every year. Today I'm wearing a lot of green jewelry, much of it featuring shamrocks. We had our dinner of corned beif and cabbage last Sunday and will probably have more tonight, and my mom made some soda bread last week too. We also play a lot of Irish music around the house and sometimes we go into the parade they have in New York City. Fun parade, wish I was there now.
Great! thank you for the info
ohh! soda bread I adore that hmm hmm have you ever wanted to visit the Auld Country to see where your family came from...
I've a smidgeon of Irish blood but not nearly enough to talk about...smile
I'm a quarter Irish, so I always smile when St. Patty's Day rolls around. I'll eat corned beef and cabbage and wear green and listen to all kinds of celtic music, but that's about it since I can't drink and don't ever want to.
I think events such as Saint Patricks day, Saint Davids day and Saint George's day should be banned as these saints usually are responsible for spreading Christianity. Instead we should realise the amount of problems they have caused by spreading Christianity.
I don't know about David and George, but when Patrick spread Christianity to Ireland, he actually did a lot of good. Before he came, the country was made up of a bunch of waring tribes and Patrick managed to unify them under one religion while still preserving much of their culture. Plus, Patrick's feast day is a great chance for Irish people in Ireland and around the world to celebrate our rich heritage. And in answer to Goblin's question, I've been to Ireland three times, most recently last summer, and I've visited the family we still have over there. The best part was our tour of an old cottage where my nanna's father grew up, and the still intact handball court where he played.
Excellent! ...and Krisme your right some just refuse look beyond the negative.
Well they're not united in Northern Ireland and one of the factors in that is the religion Patrick is guilty of spreading and corrupting and abusing peoples minds with.
The reason they're not united in Northern Ireland is because those imperialist Brittons of the seventeenth century decided to go and conquer all of Ireland and force Protestantism on everyone and bring about several centuries of hard times and harsh rule for the Catholics. Now that Ireland is mostly no longer under British control, the blame for the disunity lies in the Catholic and Protestant factions alike who refuse to stop the violance and work together for a peacefull compromise.
Krisme your right I have 2 good friends in Belfast 1 is Catholic,the other,is a Pagan..Dan my Catholic friend, has met and worked, with people from all sides, and he knows several catholics who refuse to acknowledge the protestant comunity out of pure bigotry and hatred and vice versa ...to us this irrational hatred seems petty and childish..what the british did to Northern Ireland is nothing short of disgusting...
Well the British did create protestant comunities in Northern Ireland, but if Christianity had never been spread to Great Britain or Ireland, religion wouldn't divide Northern Ireland so much now.