She-ra Posted March 17, 2015 #1 Share Posted March 17, 2015 St. Patrick's Day is almost upon us! Typically, we associate the holiday with drinking, drinking, and drinking. Oh, and being Irish. But there's a lot more to St. Patrick's Day than most people know. Truthfully, you've probably been living a lie. When you learn all the facts, this holiday actually kind of... sucks. Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/brutally-honest-st-patricks-day-facts_n_4957861.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 And, for those that celebrate, have a happy St. Pat's Day and be safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted March 17, 2015 #2 Share Posted March 17, 2015 St. Patrick's Day has always been about celebrating an old ancestral home that lives only in stories and photographs for most of us. It is similar to Cinco de Mayo. Go up to a Mexican (somebody from ol'Mexico not somebody of Hispanic descent whose family has been in 'merica for 280 years) on 5/5 and say "Happy Cinco de Mayo" most of them would be perplexed as to why they should care about 5/5. Because it a pan-Hispanic celebration day, in 'merica, that reminds them to be proud of who they are and who their ancestors are. That something happened on that day is lost to most people. As for St. Patty's day I will celebrate it just as the old saint would have wanted, by reenacting his early life. I shall go on a series of piratical raids across eastern Britain taking several slaves to be sold to the petty Celtic kingdoms in Ireland. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
She-ra Posted March 17, 2015 Author #3 Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) I hear you bubblykiss I get it... Did you read some of the things in the article? Some I knew and some I didn't. Some interesting stuff in there Edited March 17, 2015 by She-ra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indiogene Posted March 17, 2015 #4 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I read the link, makes the cultural celebration of St. Patrick's Day to appear erroneous. I know for sure I'm Scottish and something about Ulster Scots or Scotch-Irish from present-day Northern Ireland, not the Irish Catholics the holiday portrays so much. And my French-born father is a descendant of a Celtic people the Gaul, yet mixed with Latin peoples the Romans and Germanic tribes like the Flemings and Franks. The Irish are among a few Celtic peoples remaining in western Europe and British isles, whether an ethnic identity or merely cultural. The Irish, Scots-Irish and Scottish belong to the Gaedelic Celts; while the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons are the Brythonic Celts;...and disputed are the Galician, Asturian and Cantabrian peoples in northern Spain claimed to preserved some level of Celtic awareness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted March 17, 2015 #5 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Caesar Trampled Serpents https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=278&lot=129 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted April 20, 2015 #6 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Interesting. Most, if not all, that we think of when we "celebrate" St. Patrick's Day is built on lies, myths, fabrication and mostly deliberate fudging of facts. I sometimes wondered just what, exactly, all this nonsense that people engaged in on St. Patty's Day had to do with Ireland or St. Patrick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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