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March 17, 2005

St. Patrick's Day

dave

10:45 PM

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Well, once again Lá Féile Padraig rolls around, the national festival of Ireland, in which we honour a Welshman (or maybe a Roman) who we kidnapped and who subsequently hated the place enough to force us all to convert to Christianity.

I will point you to waider's very fine memo on the subject of St. Patrick's Day.

I haven't had my vaguely traditional bowl of snake soup this year, as my parents, who are vegetarians, were visiting. Perhaps over the weekend.

October 21, 2003

Something a little different

dave

12:43 AM

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I don't often post about where I'm from, but here's a little slice of Corkonia:

Cork's oldest Jew Reflects in Sadness being a short interview/bio of Gerald Goldberg, former Lord Mayor of Cork. My mother worked for him long ago. It's uplifting and rather sad at the same time.