![]() ![]() This translates as “the water of life” so naysayers may naysay all they like but it’s a culture thing. ‘Uisce beatha’ is the Irish for whiskey – the drink of legends. ![]() It’s not just a day for the saints,however. You can see him now every March 17 th on the end of a float – with added compulsory goat in rural areas. He also baptised Fionn mac Cumhaill before he died, tragically, from time travel. Sure it was St Patrick who taught us that a shamrock represents the Holy Trinity, the rugby team and Aer Lingus. Rumour has it he turns in his grave at the thought that Dublin Zoo imported the snakes back in. Somehow he ended up driving snakes out of the place and converting heathens. He was stolen or kidnapped, or whatever the technical term is, by a pirate apparently and brought here to farm sheep. “They come in here, stealing our jobs and stealing our women.” In line with this, our patron saint is not Irish. It’s all about the man himself – St Patrick. “Oh I hate you, but I love you, and if I don’t suffer through the celebration then my suffering friends will think I’m strange for not suffering enough”. As for the compulsory thing, it’s a complicated relationship. But where did they come from? It seems that Irish people disperse like seeds in the wind. One: because it’s somehow compulsory and two: because it makes you think that Irish people reproduce like flowers rather than people.
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