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Nell Flaherty’s Drake

This is one of my favorite Irish Rebel songs, full of insults and curses. It was a coded message, the Drake being a reference to  Robert Emmet (1778-1803). Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers recorded...

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A Hurling Player Lives Here

Don’t know the ancient Irish game? It’s a brutal combination of football, soccer, rugby, field hockey, baseball, jai alai and golf, traditionally played without pads or helmets and the best players...

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St Patricks Open, The Shannon Irish Pub Berlin

Happy St Patrick’s Day!   On Saturday last we had the serious, liturgically approved, thread about the man. Tonight we have a thread about the celebrations of all things Irish.  Every St Paddy’s Day, I...

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Erin Go Bleaugh

Gaelic Storm‘s Patrick Murphy tells the tale leading up to the classic Irish traditional song “The Night I Punched Russell Crowe In The Head” which, in my opinion, is an appropriate way to wrap up St....

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Celtic Round Hounds

Dogs o’ War they be. Irish Wolfhounds were used as weapons, as they could take a man off his horse for killing by others. Celtic dogs are also regarded as good luck as they were the protectors of...

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Draft

What a week. Everyone’s cat puked, everyone’s dog crapped where it shouldn’t have, everyone’s dinner got burnt at least once, ants are looking for water in the bathrooms, one of your friends or...

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