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Happy Saint Patrick's Day - 3/17/2005 2:21:43 PM

thesacredboy

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Does anyone really do anything kinky for this holiday?

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RE: Happy Saint Patrick's Day - 3/17/2005 2:44:48 PM

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Nope - cleaned the house, walked the dog and stayed well away from Dublin city centre (but i'm only a blow in after 10 years of living here!).

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RE: Happy Saint Patrick's Day - 3/17/2005 3:37:13 PM

LadyShoshin

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You might locate a good shaleleigh & undergo a great caning with it.

Of course I don't celebrate St Patrick's Day, as it was St. Patrick who christianized the people who had been doing fine with the Druids, it wasn't snakes he drove from the Emerald Isle, it was the Druids.

So, being a pagan, St Paddy is not my favorite person.

What about Jim Fitzpatrick, artist, Queen Medb (Maeve), Boudicca, the list spans the centurys.

Patrick was the son of Calpurnius, a Roman-British army officer.
He grew up in Britain until kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland.

So we honor the Isle of green swilling our green beer and toasting a Brit, who wiped out the living culture of Ireland.

Happy Boudicca Day all.

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RE: Happy Saint Patrick's Day - 3/17/2005 4:04:36 PM

Alexander

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I generally spend some time thinking about the San Patricio battalion. A brigade of Irish Martyrs who deserted the US Army in the Mexican American War after seeing the shelling of a Catholic church. Descendants of these brave men still exist today in Mexico.

My name is John Riley
I'll have your ear only a while
I left my dear home in Ireland
It was death, starvation or exile
And when I got to America
It was my duty to go
Enter the Army and slog across Texas
To join in the war against Mexico

It was there in the pueblos and hillsides
That I saw the mistake I had made
Part of a conquering army
With the morals of a bayonet blade
So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics
Screaming children, the burning stench of it all
Myself and two hundred Irishmen
Decided to rise to the call

(Chorus)
From Dublin City to San Diego
We witnessed freedom denied
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
And we fought on the Mexican side

We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
Bright with the harp and the shamrock
And "Libertad para Mexicana"
Just fifty years after Wolftone
Five thousand miles away
The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
And they can talk as they may

(Chorus)

We fought them in Matamoros
While their volunteers were raping the nuns
In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
We fought on as Ireland's sons
We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
Side by side we fought against tyranny
And I daresay we'd do it again

(Chorus)

We fought them in five major battles
Churobusco was the last
Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
We fell after each mortar blast
Most of us died on that hillside
In the service of the Mexican state
So far from our occupied homeland
We were heroes and victims of fate

(Chorus)

Created March 2001
Copyright David Rovics 2001, all rights reserved

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RE: Happy Saint Patrick's Day - 3/17/2005 5:26:46 PM

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We do not celebrate St Patricks Day. However... We did celebrate St Pirans Day.(March 5th)

I am constantly intrigued why St Patricks day is pushed to be celebrated all over the world, when in fact... well, m'lady Shoshin has already been quite vocal in her examples (I bow to her knowledge)... and other days are ignored.

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