Bandit said:
oh yah i remember that movie about leperchauns being advertised. It looked scary.
then the horseshoe, the four leaved clover, good luck, lucky charms cereal, the pot of gold.
amazing how all this gets started.
how much more superstition is there.
for some this is like a real holy day too.
Beannachtai na Feile Padraig, agat!
My three times great grandfather left county Galway in 1850, and Settled in Maryland, where he married into a family named Crabbs. My mother's side of the family came from Roscommon, and contains the names O'kean, Compton, Conologe. The current names in our family include Colleen, Maureen, Corrine, Owen, Patrick, Seamus, Thomas, Blake, Ryan, and Aloyusius!
Since the passing of the grand folks, Gaelic is not heard so much at family gatherings, except in an occasional explicative, or blessing, but we remember.
How Ironic that Padraig (St. Patrick) wasn't even Irish...
Dia's Muire duit!
Q