MY MEMORIES OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY...

GROWING UP,WE ALWAYS CALLED IT ST.PADDY'S DAY.

AND OF COURSE...THE WEARING OF THE GREEN...WE ALL HAD TO HAVE SOMETHING ON THAT WAS GREEN WHEN GOING TO SCHOOL...IRISH OR NO.

In North America, it's customary to wear green on St. Patrick's Day. But in Ireland the color was long considered to be unlucky.Irish folklore holds that green is the favourite color of the Good People (the proper name for faeries). They are likely to steal people, especially children, who wear too much of the color.

According to legend, Saint Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish people.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

I RECALL A SCHOOL AGE FRIEND...MARYLOU FITZGERALD WHO WAS A 2ND GENERATION IRISHGIRL.SHE WAS AN ALBINO(WHITE HAIR,PINK EYES) FROM A FAMILY OF ALBINOS...WOW COULD SHE EVER DANCE THE IRISH GIG...SHE WOULD COME TO SCHOOL ON THIS DAY IN FULL COSTIME...AND JUMP LIKE A LEPRAUCHON.HER FATHER RAN THE Fitzgerald School of Irish Dance IN CAPE BRETON.

“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.”

READ THIS...

St Patrick's Day and the massacre of the shamrock at the White House! | Kelly's Corner | IrishCentral

Shamrock shortage in Ireland sparks St. Pat's fears | Irish News | IrishCentral

ANOTHER AQUAINTANCE,EILEEN POTTIE DID CELTIC DANCING...SEE HER FAMILY SHOOL OF DANCE HERE...FORRESTER SCHOOL OF DANCE

TRIVIA...

Originally the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. However, over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick's day grew.


Many myths surround St. Patrick. One of the best known—and most inaccurate—is that Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland into the Irish Sea, where the serpents drowned. (Some still say that is why the sea is so rough.)

But snakes have never been native to the Emerald Isle. The serpents were likely a metaphor for druidic religions, which steadily disappeared from Ireland in the centuries after St. Patrick planted the seeds of Christianity on the island.