Today is St. Patrick's Day, the feast day of the patron saint of Ireland. There will be parades and celebrations in cities all across the world, but the holiday has always been most popular in the United States, especially in cities with large Irish-American populations. In Chicago, they dye the Chicago River green every year. And in New York City, there's a huge parade that goes up Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 86th Street, past St. Patrick's Cathedral. And it's all to celebrate the man who brought Christianity to Ireland.
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Top of the Morning to ya.
I am still here me and the computer
I always loved St Patrick's Day in
Montreal. It was like the first day of spring. Going to the parade
and seeing all the people from Verdun that you didn't see all winter,
even some phamtom's from the past.
I would be all the Verdun people at the corner of
Guy. You could go with no money in your pocket and run into some one who owed
you money from long ago in the past or the other way around go with money and
pay back the people you owed.
never the less it was loads of fun. I assume the
parade is held today So people will be able to nurce their hangovers tomorrow
before going back to work!!!!
Geez Levis I have been to about twenty parades and never once did I find someone who owed me money, or gave me money. It must be called the luck of the Irish, or maybe that is the true meaning of the pot of gold.
The parades were fun. We would all be standing there freezing but would have the energy to shout when someone passed by that we knew. I loved the Shriners in those little cars or was that Karnak temple. I remember the "plop cleaner" walking along behind the horses. My daughter got a kick out of that - smutty little thing !!! Of course the Pipes and drums, and Irish dancers, radio and TV celebs. Great time ! Laurie
Laurie I was just talking to my sister Glo Worm and
she tells me the parade is tommorrow. I forgot that is always held on Sunday.I
guess alot of people still book off work on Monday.
The last year I lived in the Laurientians in Quebec
a friend of mine who also knew people from Verdun asked me if I wanted to go to
the parade . Off we went I made it home 3 days later with mustard all down
the front of my shirt from a corned beef and cabbage meal we had at someone's
house in Verdun. What a time we had.The day after the parade we kept dropping in
on all our old Verdun friend's.( Most of them Irish) I had better
stop I'm getting home sick again !
Happy St. Paddy's Day to one and all! For those of us unable to be at the parade tomorrow (like me who is in Virginia), this is the next best thing - watch it on a webcam that's aimed at Peel and St. Catherine! http://www.montrealcam.com/en-visitation.html Erin Go Bragh!
P.S. It starts at 12 noon.
Well people are starting to finally get into the swing of things - doesn't seem to be an awful many tho seeing as the parade starts in 20 minutes... I can see the green line tho! hehe
An old Irish Hymn we use every St.Patrick.s day goes like this. It's sung to the tune of Londonderry Air. Better known as Danny Boy I cannot tell why he whom Angel's worship. Should set his love upon the sons of men. Or why as Shepherd He should seek the wanderer. To bring them back, they not not how nor when. But this I know that he was born of Mary When Bethlehem's manger was his only home. And that He lived in Nazareth and Laboured. And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world is come. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Ed
Any one out there I want to watch the St
Paddy's parade I tryed Laurie's suggestion but all I get is a picture of it I
liked to watch it live
That wasn't my suggestion Levis. I would like to see it too. If you have a satellite dish you could perhaps watch exerpts of it on the channel twelve news at 6:00 tonight. It is # 205 on our dish in Kingston. Laurie
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