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It’s all “Erin Go Bleaugh” on tonight’s “Blowin’ Of The Green” edition of
The Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘St. Patrick’s Day’
The St. Patrick’s Day Natural Progession
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 142 Comments › )Filed under Food and Drink, OOT, Open thread at March 17th, 2014 - 11:00 pm
Erin Go Bleaugh
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 33 Comments › )Filed under Entertainment, Humor, Music, OOT, Open thread at March 17th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Gaelic Storm‘s Patrick Murphy tells the tale leading up to the classic Irish traditional song “The Night I Punched Russell Crowe In The Head” which, in my opinion, is an appropriate way to wrap up St. Patrick’s Day on
The Overnight Open Thread.
Happy St. Patrick’s Night!
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 196 Comments › )Filed under Food and Drink, Humor, Music, Open thread at March 17th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
Hope you’re not pukin’ o’ the green tonight, and if you don’t like the vid above, then here’s one just for you.
Tippin’ a pint to me mates on The Overnight Open Thread!
Nell Flaherty’s Drake
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 84 Comments › )Filed under Europe, Humor, Music, Open thread, Patriotism, Politics, UK, World at March 17th, 2010 - 6:00 pm
This is one of my favorite Irish Rebel songs, full of insults and curses. It was a coded message, the Drake being a reference to Robert Emmet (1778-1803). Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers recorded it once, but here’s a decent version.
If you can’t read it proper, here’s the transcription, with explanatory footnotes compiled with help on the Irish slang from Mr. Eoin Shalloo, Curator of Rare Books, National Library of Scotland, after the break.
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