Word: irelands
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...United States, St. Patrick's Day is much more than a religious remembrance of a saint who lived over 1,500 years ago who drove the snakes from Ireland (rumor) and converted much of the island to Christianity (fact). Instead it has become a celebration of all things Irish, of a nation whose emigrants to this country produced, at least in part, over 45 million Irish-Americans living today. We sing of the "old country," talking lovingly about the light mists that caress her rolling green fields, dancing to her vibrant music traditional and modern, and celebrating this wondrous "Isle...
Finally, the Ireland of today is not the stereotypical Ireland of perfectly thatched homes, leprechauns, fairies and gold at the end of the rainbow. Nor is it the dank, gloomy and oppressive place that some writers portray. Rather, this "Celtic Tiger" is rearing its head and roaring at long last with an economic growth. It is a nation that takes ancient forms and smartly and beautifully updates them to light the end of the 20th century. It is a nation that, in the North, is finally nearing a peaceful resolution to hundreds of years of conflict with the descendants...
...Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger (1845-1849), the worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...potato blight which killed crops throughout Ireland was the final movement in this first symphony of sorrows, to be joined later by Civil War and the Troubles. Potatoes were all that was left for most Irish people to eat. By 1845, potatoes had become the sole staple of the Irish diet. When they were gone, there was no food available to the poor. They could not afford anything else, and it was knowingly not given to them, prompting some historians to label the Famine not as an unfortunate calamity but as a genocide...
Hibernia puts on a true St. Paddy's extravaganza, green Martinis and all. The club will give away a prize trip to Ireland as well as hold a contest to select "Boston's Most Beautiful Red-Head" at 8 p.m. Live traditional Irish music and dance tunes with DJ Mark keep the festivities swinging. Hibernia, 25 Kingston St. Boston...