Happy Wearin' Of The Green Day.....

wrong lol
http://www.stpatricksfestival.ie

 

i don't see where that mentions the rest of it. its cool they're having some concerts on that day, but i didn't see a link about who he actually was and what he actually did. that's what i meant by the rest of it.

 

First....Patrick was Roman British, captured by Irish pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. After six years of that he escaped and got back to Britain where he became a priest. So he's not even Irish and he was never canonized as a saint...

Second.... There were no snakes in Ireland, the last ice age made sure of that. What he did was drive the Irish pagans that wouldn't convert to Christianity into the sea, some of which had tattoos that may have looked like "snakes". Those pagans were likely not Druids... The Druids were Welsh.

 

I'm afraid it's the other way around. Try telling a northern Irish orangeman he's a catholic and you won't provoke a very friendly reaction.
It all goes back to the war between William of Orange (King Billy in Irish parlance) and James II, last of the Stuart dynasty. The latter was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVlbenGJ8u0

 

What he said... I drink to my pentagram tattoos.

 

I don't know if the Irish were Druids, but the Druids in pre-Roman Britain were distributed throughout the country. (not Scotland as far as is known)They were driven into Wales by the Romans, and the last stand of the Druids against the Romans took place on the island of Anglesy off the Welsh coast.

 

^
They seem to be a celtic thing, and were also present on the mainland of Europe.

The problem with Scotland is.... that it's full of scots

 

The problem with Scotland is that i am not there living in my castle.......

part of me belongs to the Celt and Scots...part of me belongs to Finland which IS NOT a not a Scandinavian country as many people think....iceland is not, either.....Maybe I should go live in my igloo in Finland, instead.....

 

thank you. that's what i was hoping there was someone who had a clearer idea then i had. i suppose i was being sloppy in calling the irish system of brehon law druidic. of course i knew the part about the shakes, and i'd read and heard several sources, but it was a long time ago when i did, and again thank you for correcting some of the details i had mixed up in my mind.

but i got the orange and green backwards? oy vey. well they would have been better, or at least no worse off, without the invasion of christianity at any rate. of course i guess the de danu and the fir bolgs would have still been going at it or something.

 

it's true. the irish were celebrating you.

 

i dont like green day

i do not have the time to listen to them whine

 

Dublin was founded by the Norse – That’s one Swede of a different disposition


Hotwater

 

A lot of Irish place names are Norse...

 

Makes sense – what doesn’t make sense are those fools who try to capture their cultural identity by wearing Viking helmets – The Vikings never had horns sticking out of their helmets - not even as an accessory


Hotwater

 

Of course they didn't... They had other uses for them.

 

Re-grouping at home for their last stand... so to speak.

 

i do not like green day with ham.

i do not like their whining, sam i am.

 

Does it make more sense now? :-D