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These may come in handy for any celebrations you may be attending this weekend. Bonus points go to anybody who can accurately pronounce any of these after 4 Guinness. My personal favorite is the last... I wish I could find the phonetic spelling.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! (singular)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit
La ale-lah pwad-rig son-ah ditch

Happy St. Patrick's Day! (plural)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh
La ale-lah pwad-rig son-ah jeev

St. Patrick's Day Blessings
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig

St. Patrick's Day Blessing On You (singular)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig ort

St. Patrick's Day Blessing On You (plural)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig or-iv

Ireland Forever
Éire go Brách
Air-rah guh braw

I'm Irish!
Is Éireannach mé!
Iss air-in-ack may

Health and Wealth!
Sláinte is táinte!
slawn-chah iss tan-chah

A pint of Guiness, please
Píonta Guiness, le do thoil
Pine-tah Guiness, le doh hull

Where will you be wetting the shamrock?
Cá mbeidh tú ag fliuchadh na seamróige?
Ka may two ig fluck-ooh na sham-roge-ah

Luck of the Irish
Ádh na nÉireannach
ah na nare-in-ack

Kiss me, I'm Irish
Tabhair póg dom, is Éireannach mé
Toe-er pog do, iss air-in-ack may

Give me the same as the man on the floor!
Tabhair dom a rud céanna mar atá ag an fhear ar an urlar!
 
I'll not know the Gaelic, but I'll always remember my favorite Saint Paddy's Day.
It's been 44 years since I rode my unicycle in the "Southie Parade;" that's as in South Boston. I was with the WMEX Radio contingent, at the request of Arnie "the Woo" Ginsburg, one of America's earliest Top 40 Disc Jockeys. It was a horrible, rainy day during the whole parade, but hundreds of thousands lined the streets for the annual spectacular. Arnie was riding a little Honda Cub 50(from one of his sponsors). He zigged, I zagged, and we both were colored by the dye leaking from our green wigs. Oh, what a day; and the weather doesn't look too promising for this year's "Southie,'" either.

HR
 
[SIZE=+1]Up, Orangemen Up![/SIZE] By the blood of your fathers, the martyrs of old,
By the honor and courage that never were sold.,
By the throne that you love, and the faith you revere,
Up, Orangemen! Up! And in phalanx appear.
By the dread recollection of horrors long past,
By the bigot, who still is as true to his caste,
By the Pope and the devil, who plot to betray,
Up, Orangemen! Up! And in battle array.
By all that kind heaven or earth can afford,
By religion and laws, and by torture abhor'd
By base superstition and priestcraft, and crime,
Up, Orangement!Up! 'tis the crisis of time.
By wife, home, and childre,n by friends and kin,
By the ONE sacred triumph of which Britons sing,
By the laws as THEY WERE made to keep Papists down--
Up, Orangemen! Up! And defend faith and crown.
 
smigaldi said:
[SIZE=+1]Up, Orangemen Up![/SIZE] By the blood of your fathers, the martyrs of old,
By the honor and courage that never were sold.,
By the throne that you love, and the faith you revere,
Up, Orangemen! Up! And in phalanx appear.
By the dread recollection of horrors long past,
By the bigot, who still is as true to his caste,
By the Pope and the devil, who plot to betray,
Up, Orangemen! Up! And in battle array.
By all that kind heaven or earth can afford,
By religion and laws, and by torture abhor'd
By base superstition and priestcraft, and crime,
Up, Orangement!Up! 'tis the crisis of time.
By wife, home, and childre,n by friends and kin,
By the ONE sacred triumph of which Britons sing,
By the laws as THEY WERE made to keep Papists down--
Up, Orangemen! Up! And defend faith and crown.
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To many, those are fighting words Scott. We used to see Orangemen show up in Southie for the parade to pick fights, they generally lost...

Cheers,

-Andrew
3rd generation greenie from a long line of hardcore Nationalists
 
astanley said:
To many, those are fighting words Scott. We used to see Orangemen show up in Southie for the parade to pick fights, they generally lost...

Cheers,

-Andrew
3rd generation greenie from a long line of hardcore Nationalists
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I had to add some balance to the force. Wifey is Irish and my family is English and Scottish. The immigrants of my family were loyalist until about 1730 or so. Then they radicalized against the British rule.

Around this time of year I like to poke a little at my Irish half, no offense meant.
 
smigaldi said:
I had to add some balance to the force. Wifey is Irish and my family is English and Scottish. The immigrants of my family were loyalist until about 1730 or so. Then they radicalized against the British rule.

Around this time of year I like to poke a little at my Irish half, no offense meant.
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Oh no! I don't take any offense at all :)

However, I still have this odd reaction to seeing people wear Orange on St. Patrick's day.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
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