I don’t know if he actually drove the snakes from Ireland but my Irish grandma always thought he did and that’s all that matters. Continue reading
St Patrick
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While St. Patrick’s Day is still a few weeks away, the Queens neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside had the 15th St. Pat’s For All parade on March 2, 2014. Continue reading
I don’t like beer. I haven’t liked it since 1985 when I was drinking Budweiser products at the basement of the Sigma Chi house at UW:Madison. It isn’t snobbery, I’m just not a fan of the taste. I’ve struggled over the years to properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without drinking Guinness, Harp or the gawdawful green beer. Then I met my husband and everything changed.
My husband’s ancestors are known as ‘Wine Geese.” What are Wine Geese? Well it comes from Wild Geese, which refers to exodus of Irish soldiers to France at the end of the 1600’s following the Willamite-Jacobite war. The damn Catholics and Protestants always fighting. Catholics were forced to skip town. Wine Geese refers to Irish emigrants who became involved in the wine trade in other countries. Continue reading
A joint effort between Milkshaker and A Piece of the Continent
The Man, the Myth, the Legend
The maxim that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day seems counter-intuitive for a holiday celebrating a Brythonic Briton from what is present-day England. The inconsistencies regarding both the man and the myths surrounding him only start there. Continue reading