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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 8:50:43 GMT
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Irish Naval Service.
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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 9:20:25 GMT
Irish Naval Service
To our friends and family around the world
and especially to our personnel at sea and
overseas.
Happy ST Patrick's Day.
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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 9:22:24 GMT
Irish Naval Service
To our friends and family around the world
and especially to our personnel at sea and
overseas.
Happy ST Patrick's Day.
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh
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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 10:40:15 GMT
POTA PHÁDRAIG OR PATRICK’S POT
Ordain a Statute to be Drunk
And burn Tobacco free as Spunk
And fat shall never be forgot
In Usquebah, St Patrick’s Pot
The custom of imbibing alcohol on St Patrick’s Day comes from an old Irish legend. As the story goes, St Patrick was served a measure of whiskey that was considerably less than full. St Patrick took this as an opportunity to teach a lesson of generosity to the innkeeper. He told the innkeeper that in his cellar resided a monstrous devil who fed on the dishonesty of the innkeeper. In order to banish the devil, the man must change his ways. When St Patrick returned to the Inn some time later, he found the owner generously filling the patrons’ glasses to overflowing. He returned to the cellar with the innkeeper and found the devil emaciated from the landlord’s generosity, and promptly banished the demon, proclaiming thereafter everyone should have a drop of the “hard stuff” on his feast day.
This custom has come to be known as Pota Phádraig or Patrick’s Pot. The custom is called drowning the shamrock because it is customary to float a leaf of the plant in the whiskey before taking a shot.
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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 15:33:37 GMT
Quote Kinsale Mayor, Tomas O Brien : "Many a young Kinsale man left to go to Barry, which to them was the gateway to the world. For some it was the first time they had left their native town, and their families survived on the money they sent home. "Some settled in Barry and have families there today. Many others died in the wars while serving in both the Royal and Merchant Navies." This is Barry. Thursday 1 September 2005
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Post by Administrator on Mar 17, 2021 15:35:35 GMT
Lest we forget,Lusitania sinking on May 7, 1915. Off the Old Head of Kinsale.
A few years ago the Merchant Navy Association from Barry Dock in Wales, as they looked out across the sunlit waters 15 miles south of Courtmacsherry, near Kinsale, on a day when the weather was similar to that of the sinking all strong men who had seen and experienced a lot at sea themselves and lost companions and relations during the Second World War, all had tears in their eyes, imagining what it must have been like for those aboard the Lusitania.
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