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Some photos from earlier St Patrick's Day postings

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.

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.

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 ...

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

He's holding a box of KFC over his head?

Patrick's fast on the mountain Tírechán wrote in the 7th century that Patrick spent forty days on the mountaintop of Cruachán Aigle, as Moses did on Mount Sinai. The 9th century Bethu Phátraic says that Patrick was harassed by a flock of black demonic birds while on the peak, and he banished them into the hollow of Lugnademon ("hollow of the demons") by ringing his bell. Patrick ended his fast when God gave him the right to judge all the Irish at the Last Judgement, and agreed to spare the land of Ireland from the final desolation.[82][83] A later legend tells how Patrick was tormented on the mountain by a demonic female serpent named Corra or Caorthannach. Patrick is said to have banished the serpent into Lough Na Corra below the mountain, or into a hollow from which the lake burst forth.[84] The mountain is now known as Croagh Patrick (Cruach Phádraig) after the saint. ... From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick

Googlesphere !! - goo.gl/maps/4BDoc4m5d4wU3csH7 (fantastic)

Originally from ... "STC214630 St. Patrick and the demon birds, from The Trias Thaumaturga, or Three Wonder-Working Saints of Ireland, by Mary Cusack (1829-99) published c.1890s (litho) (b/w photo) by Irish School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: during his 40 day vigil on the mountain; ); The Stapleton Collection; Irish, out of copyright" See - www.allposters.com/-sp/St-Patrick-and-Demon-Birds-Three-W... At the NLI (Main Reading Room) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000488285 which says "1877?"

demon birds? creepy

I have taken the liberty of adding this to to our map as the Vatican City!!!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh go leir freisin. Gura fada buan sibh.

Paddywhack56 Go raibh maith agat a Phádraig!

pre-snakes?

圣帕特里克节快乐 from Shanghai! Is it just me or does Pope Celestine look a bit young for a Pope? oaktree_brian_1976 I would presume that this is still pre-snake banishment :-)