Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Why tinker with perfection? Visit Jarod's Forge for his wonderful article, Leprechaun's with Botox: The History of St. Patrick's Day in America.
Labels: "A bit of silliness really", history, Holidays
posted by Anniina | 2:42 AM
8 Comments:
I just added one of my favourite Dubliners songs into my blog. And Happy St. Patrick's Day !!! When are we travelling to Dublin ???
I just read, that there is a St.Patrick's Day parade in Helsinki !!!! What ???
Joo, joo: believe it. More info in
http://www.finnish-irish.fi/ajankohtaissivu.html
We Finns have to use every excuse to party. Otherwise it is so dull during the long winter. Or autumn. Or any time of the year.
I do not celebrate him, neither would I were I an Irish.
There's nothing really much to celebrate about converting ppl from their old religion to something ELSE.
I'm not talking about which faith is better or worse.
On a second thought: sorry for all of you - I don't want to spoil your festival/celebration ...
Cheers Anniina! Thanks for linking :) Happy St. Patrick's to all!
Szelsofa - I understand, and it's good point. But if you go far enough back, many holidays have some dark episode in their history. Probably the thing to do is just relax and enjoy yourself. It's up to you, of course.
Katja - remember how for our XV anniversary we talked about going to Ireland, but money was tight? What if we planned it for this year and celebrated our XX yrs in Ireland???
Well, I thought I would get angry responses for my comment. Sometimes I say what's in my heart - regardless of how it may hurt anyone... I'm sorry again.
And I am thankful for Jarod for seeing my point, instead of being as quick tempered as I am....
I'm trying to celebrate holidays where nothing darkens the positivity of the feast. I used to wholeheartedly celebrate St Stephen, our first Christian king on August 20 for example - later I found out about the methods he used to convert pagans.... The similarity to St. Patrick is striking. Defending the old religion is one of my weak points. Or strong ones. It's up to you.
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