Jump to content

St. Patrick's Day


Recommended Posts

3 hours ago, Francie, said:

Because as we all know there was no "famine" the brits took all the food an shipped it elsewere leaving us with nothing but plagued spuds,there was plenty of food but it was taken away from us,they dont want to drag that story up lol for another thread anyway happy st paddys day

Fck off. We have endured the great tomato famine just recently.....2weeks later....are we still moaning? Are we feck. Move on 

  • Haha 3
Link to post
Share on other sites

  • Replies 65
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Posts

The only snakes left here

Me and my brother took Dad to watch the Fureys last night for his Bday,  good old sing along, he kept saying its like being back in Dundalk! Lol Heavy metal band in a pub after, not so much

It seems everything you regurgitated earlier is horse shite lol.. They certainly brainwashed you on your way to adulthood lol

Posted Images

If St. Patrick was always tied to the color blue, why do people cloak themselves in green on March 17th?

Early depictions of St. Patrick show him wearing blue, and the official color of the Order of St. Patrick, was a sky blue known as “St. Patrick’s Blue.” The blue symbolism dates back to early Irish mythology as Flaitheas Éireann, the symbol of Irish sovereignty was depicted with a woman in a blue dress, but the first official association with the color blue was when Henry VIII took the throne. He declared himself King of Ireland, making it part of England. As time went on, the people of Ireland weren’t fans of this arrangement and rebelled using St. Patrick’s shamrock as a symbol of their identity, making green the symbol of Irish culture. 

The British wanted to stamp out Irish identity so they banned people from wearing green as an open symbol of their Irish identity. Irish newspapers published notices stating that wearing such items as green ribbons or handkerchiefs as “an emblem of affection to Ireland” were forbidden. To wear such items would “subject a man to imprisonment, transportation, the rope or the bayonet, and expose women to the brutal insults of the common soldiery”. The move was seen by the Irish as both outrageous and ridiculous in equal measure.

The song "The Wearing of the Green" captures those emotions perfectly. The opening verse conjures up the sense of absurdity with the line “the shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground”.

As the song’s refrain says: “They’re hanging men and women for the Wearing of the Green”. www.dunnesofbrittas.com

Link to post
Share on other sites
1 hour ago, Chid said:

He was Welsh but back in Patrick's time Wales didn't exist it was Britain .. hence when he came from the west coast of Britain .. 

It seems everything you regurgitated earlier is horse shite lol..

They certainly brainwashed you on your way to adulthood lol

Edited by jigsaw
  • Like 6
Link to post
Share on other sites
1 hour ago, DIDO.1 said:

Fck off. We have endured the great tomato famine just recently.....2weeks later....are we still moaning? Are we feck. Move on 

Finicky eaters ! Just get on the quinoa, such drama queen's, all like Graham Norton, when will us working class get a chance to whinge ,cry ,over how we were treated ,never I guess ,swept under the carpet ,

Link to post
Share on other sites
38 minutes ago, jigsaw said:

It seems everything you regurgitated earlier is horse shite lol..

They certainly brainwashed you on your way to adulthood lol

??

Yous Irish get really touchy about st Patrick. 

It was the Americans who started the green tradition off not some potato picker in the 1500s about his Irish heritage ?.

Let's not forgot the British had ruled over Ireland way before Henry the 8th but as lords not kings .. and when you did eventually get your own king , his own countrymen asked the English king to come and defeat him and rule in his place ???

  • Haha 1
Link to post
Share on other sites
5 hours ago, Lenmcharristar said:

We need another st patrick type only this time to drive the gimmiegrants and scum from these shores. He would be a peoples champion too if he did, lol

Thee fir the taking mate .Just need decent sized bollocks .

Link to post
Share on other sites
1 hour ago, Chid said:

??

Yous Irish get really touchy about st Patrick. 

It was the Americans who started the green tradition off not some potato picker in the 1500s about his Irish heritage ?.

Let's not forgot the British had ruled over Ireland way before Henry the 8th but as lords not kings .. and when you did eventually get your own king , his own countrymen asked the English king to come and defeat him and rule in his place ???

Yawn,....fuk off with your bigotry chid...keep preaching from the past cause the likes of you have fuk all future .lol ....

  • Like 2
  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    No registered users viewing this page.


×
×
  • Create New...