Ireland Switches St. Pat Day Observance

“I wouldn’t imagine too many people are aware of the religious aspect”

The Roman Catholic Church will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day two days early next year in Ireland, to avoid a conflict with observances for an exceptionally early Holy Week. via Newsday.com

Rise up Seattle! Join the Part&eacute for Bastille Day

I’ve driven past the Bastille Day celebration announcement on the Seattle Center reader board every day this week and have seen ads for events around the city, but what exactly does Bastille Day mean for the … via Metroblogging Seattle

More cheap shots than an Irish pub on St. Patrick’s Day

ReviewHistory >>>Attendant Cruelties Nation and Nationalism in American History By Patrice Higonnet Other Press / 400 pages / $25.95 When savages - in the Philippines or the American West - perform acts … via Baltimore Sun

Celtic Woman - A New Journey

“Beyond the Sea”, “The Prayer”, “Scarborough Fair”, “Over the Rainbow”, classical favourites “Lascia Ch’io Pianga”, “Vivaldi’s Rain”, and Irish standards “Dulaman”, “At the Ceili”, “Caledonia”

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Lally’s is Cape’s only Irish pub

“We pretty much have any bottled beer and some wine”

Lally’s Irish Pub is a modest spot where, borrowing a line from the television show Cheers, “everybody knows your name.” The pub and restaurant is in Merchant’s Plaza, 211 Hancock Bridge Parkway, near the … via News Press

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Irish founder of Argentine navy remembered

“In Foxford his birth place, he left the memories of his childhood that set the basis of his personality”

Irish and Argentinian naval personnel today joined forces to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of the Mayo-born founder of the Argentine navy. via BreakingNews.ie

Lessons from Ireland’s smoking ban

“Certainly the old characters have gone out of the pub”

Smoking in pubs and clubs has just been banned in New South Wales and Victoria - three years after Ireland banned smoking in any workplace, meaning customers of pubs, clubs and restaurants had to stub out too. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Memories, heritage give the Fourth meaning

Every holiday seems to have its own personality. Some bring out feelings of happiness and joy, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. via ArgusLeader.com

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“They must have thought that there wasn’t a place in the world of goodness or kindness, that all kindness had abandoned the world, because that was the grim, dark place in which they were living”

It looked a bit like St. Patrick’s Day as thousands of people, many decked out in green or carrying Irish flags, packed a Toronto park Thursday for the emotional unveiling of a tribute to Irish immigrants who … via CKWS TV

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