saint patrick's day

Mine was just fantastic, I've did it twice during the weekend.

First, it was from friday evening to saturday...maybe 11pm, with a friend in a pub called "L'irlandais" in Lille.

The second one was in one of my others friends house, we were three and we had 10 l of beer...

I was drunk as an Irish!!

And yours?

Actually, I'm a very bad singer, I prefer playing the guitar or something like that!

Why do you want me to sing in an Irish pub song?

Oh yep, but I wasn't singing, I use to have a great selfcontrol for this (I think that you will enderstand what I mean but it seems to me very bad neewbie speaker english, damnt')

I think it is a sad but lovely song. Here are the lyrics:

In Dublin's Fair City
Where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheel'd her wheel barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!

Chorus
Alive, alive o!, alive, alive o!
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!

She was a fishmonger
But sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they each wheel'd their barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!

Chorus

She died of a fever
And no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!

Chorus

Hi, Bob ! This is very nice. I like the lyirics. I'd like to hear the music.
If you come to the barbecue in June, why not take the CD with you ,,

Continuation....

Sorry Muriel, I just realized there was your message and music upwards. Thank you ! I hadn't seen it !!

Hi,

Yes I am planning to go to the barbeque party in Calais again this year along with some friends from the London area and rather than bringing a CD along I offer to sing the "Cockles and Mussels" song myself or alternatively I may try to persuade one of my friends to sing it instead!!

Bob

Yes, indeed, it would be great !!!!!!!!!!!!

Millions of people around the world are wearing grey on that day. They drink green Guinness. From the Colosseum in Rome to hotel towers in Abu Dhabi, to Christ Redeemer  statue in Rio de Janeiro, EIFFEL tower in Paris, Sydney opera house in Australia, landmarks and buildings around the globe will be lit green in honour of the Irish. Waterways were dyed green and parades were held everywhere from Tokyo to Toronto over the weekend. How is it that a day originally meant to honour the patron saint of one small country has become a global phenomenon that celebrate all things Irish, marked by millions of people who don't have a trace of Irish blood? Yet Ireland culture and history are cause for worldwide merriment today. To understand why, one must look not to Emerald Isle, but to the United States. That 's where the version of St Patrick 's day is known and celebrated to day really has its roots. Originally, it was a religious event before Irish immigrants in the U.S. refined, repackaged, reimagined it,  as an American day. The result was then exported back to Ireland. The new St Patrick Day TRADITION HAS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD; in the 17th century, marking the death of St Patrick, who is credited with spreading Christianity in Ireland. It was a sombre day when people would go to mas, not to the pubs, which were closed. Meanwhile, across the pond, Irish immigrants in the U.S. began their own St Patrick traditions in the 18th century. According to historians, a group of elite Irishmen first gathered for a celebratory dinner in Boston on March 17.1737;the parade tradition was born about 30 years later in New-YORK CITY in 1766 when Irish Catholic members of British army took to the streets. Not all Irish immigrants to U.S.were welcomed .they were characterised by some as drunken, violent and disease-carrying. The parades offers Irish-Americans an opportunity to show case their pride and cultural identity. As more immigrants arrived, they felt strength in numbers, and started climbing the social ladder, moving into positions of power in local police forces, for example, and commerce. Behind the parades, Irishmen were saying " We are here, we're not going away, and we are powerful."

Hi t

Thanks for explanations.

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat.