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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit - Happy Saint Patrick's Day

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Some photos from earlier St Patrick's Day postings
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Is this the shortest strike in history?
  
  Belfast Newsletter, Tuesday, March 18, 1913
  
  WAITERS' TEN MINUTES' STRIKE
  
  One of the shortest strikes on record occurred last night at the Hotel Cecil, London, where the waiters declined to continue their duties whilst preparations were in progress for a dinner for which seven hundred covers were laid. The demands made by the waiters were similar to those at other London hotels which during the weekend were the scenes of strikes. Within ten minutes the management conceded the union’s demands, the guests attending the dinner being unaware of how narrowly their gathering had escaped being upset.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  News From 100 years ago
  
  Belfast Newsletter, Wednesday, March 18, 1925
  A "DRY" DAY.
  
  Free Staters Cross the Border to Get a Drink.
  
  THE WEARING OF THE GREEN.
  
  St. Patrick's Day was fine and dry throughout Ireland, and in The Free State it was "dry" in another sense by reason of the operation of the recent Licensing Act which forbids the opening of public-houses on 17th March. This had the result of causing a roaring trade to be done in the public-houses on the North side of the border, many resident in Free State counties bordering on Ulster coming across to drown their shamrocks.

• beachcomber australia said:

  H🍀ppy S🍀int P🍀trick's D🍀y !
  
  [Ms Mary, can I come out of the Pun Bin yet? Please!]
  
  17 March 1913 was a Monday ...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia We can issue pardons only on St Patrick's Day, so consider yourself duly pardoned.