March 17 2022
Liam Brennan as St. Patrick, the flags, the crowds, the music, the sunshine…a St. Patrick’s Day to remember in Listowel.
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Shamrocks’, Bicycles, Ukraine flags…March 17 2022 in Listowel
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Some people I met
Everyone was in great form, delighted to be outdoors and back together again. St. Patrick’s Day 2022 had lifted the spirits of everyone I met.
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Meanwhile in Malahide
Éamon ÓMurchú took these shots at an event in Malahide. fireworks are notoriously hard to photograph. These are brilliant images.
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I had some gymnasts in the house
On a beautiful sunny evening in March in Ballybunion you wouldn’t know if you were on your head or your heels.
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A Few Local Placenames
Fourhane, Fuarthán…There is cold spring well here which gave this downland its name.
Ballynagowan…Baile na Gabhan The home of the blacksmith
Kilmorna….Cill Mórna The church of Morna. Legend has it that there was a graveyard here and a the remains of a lady called Mórna were found there.
Tanavala…An tSeanbhaile, the old homestead
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Ballydonoghue Bardic Festival 2022
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Bono’s poem for Ukraine
Oh, St Patrick he drove out the snakes
With his prayers but that’s not all it takes
For the snake symbolises
An evil that rises
And hides in your heart, as it breaks
And the evil has risen my friends
From the darkness that lives in some men
But in sorrow and fear
That’s when saints can appear
To drive out those old snakes once again
And they struggle for us to be free
From the psycho in this human family
Ireland’s sorrow and pain
Is now the Ukraine
And St Patrick’s name now Zelenskiy
“I’ve a tradition of sending a limerick to [Pelosi’s] St Patrick’s Day lunch over the years,” Bono said on Twitter. “This year the limerick is irregular & not funny at all. We stand with the people of Ukraine & their leader.” Bono also said the poem “wasn’t written to be published”, but after much attention he released it on U2’s Twitter page.
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