Toora, loora, loora muthafuckahs.
Which kinda sums up my upbringing, if I think about it. Irish kid moves to ‘70’s Ghetto.
In Ireland, Patrick’s Day was traditionally more of a religious deal than a major blow out‘certainly there are no green rivers of beer and all that nonsense in my memory bank. I don’t really go on about Irish Culture all that much but St. Patrick was a heck of a guy and it’s worth noting who he was and what’s really all about.
Patrick was not Irish and he did nothing about the snakes because, as far as I know, Ireland never had snakes.
But Naomh Pádraigh was known for tolerance. He outlawed slavery in Ireland a thousand years before anywhere else in Europe. He also demanded equal rights for women and in fact many women were leaders of the Church in Ireland until the 10th century. These are achievements that should be better known. My guess is that the reason they are not has a […]