It's almost over in Iireland
It's almost over in Iireland
Hi Everybody - Boy y'all take ole St. Patrick real serious over there.
We just use 17th March as a legitimate break in the lenten season. All the folks who go off the 'demon drink' for lent, have a blowout today and a hangover tomorrow.
Thanks for all your posts, I have a series of questions to answer so here goes.................
Nancy, dunno if you realised but there is one more line to your verse. It reads: "May God hold you in the palm of his hand and never close his fist too tight on you."
Those Begleys and Lynch's must have come from a small town close to here called Pomeroy. They were high class folks cause us 'poo' folks never put caraway seeds in the soda bread...........
On your music question...........Our biggest export in the music business at the moment is Daniel O'Donnell but only a small number of his songs are truly Irish, the rest are 'country.' If you want the 'pub' style of music, the Dubliners and the Wolfe Tones are still popular, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers have been around for a long time with all the oldies. For Irish easy listening check out Gene Stuart or Larry Cunningham of if you prefer female vocals, Bridie Gallagher or Eileen Donaghy.
Daniel O'Donnell's sister Margo has a bunch of albums also - I do some of the cover pictures for her CD's and she's real popular both here and in the States. In Northern Ireland, Philomena Begley (maybe a relation of yours) is the top selling female vocalist. If you tell me exactly what type of music you like, I can be more specific.
Joan, what a small world, your son the surfer is in 'Beautiful Bundoran' (There's a song with that title) My neighbours have a holiday cottage in Bundoran and spend almost every weekend there. Tell me his name and the name of the pub your son works in and some of us will drop by and surprise him. They could try to search for him, but with 52 pubs in town, knowing them they might just quickly forget who they were looking for.
As for me kissing the blarney stone, despite my talkative nature, I haven't kissed it. Passed it many times in the middle of the night in my 'band' days coming home from dances, but never actually got there in daylight.
Ron, hope to meet you some of these days too. A Fitzgerald and a Branagan sounds like a good mix of genes and a sure recipe for freckles. Those O'Connell's were so famous they even named the main highway in Dublin after them. But I'm sure you already knew that. As regards Janie's hair, ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
And Lorraine......the last of the female Leprechauns I know you're Irish cause you said you 'enjoyed' the party last night. If you'd been American, you'd have said you 'had a good time.'
See I'm learning y'all's language - and now I'm off to have the last Guinness of the evening.............well maybe I'll have time for a Bushmills as well.
I'll leave you with ancient Irish greeting.........
May you live long and die happy and may you be in Heaven for a half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
I hope this translates.
