Top O’ the morn to ya! I love wearing green on St. Paddy’s Day. Even though I can claim less than 5% Irish in my heritage, St. Patrick’s Day reminds what it’s like to have fun just for the sake of having fun.In honor of all things Irish and traveling to a place where kissing […]
Here’s a list of some of the world’s luckiest destinations:Touch of the BlarneyIreland’s Blarney Stone is a block of bluestone that was built into a tower at Blarney Castle in 1446. According to legend, kissing the stone gives you the gift of the gab – great eloquence or skill at flattery. Nose for LuckIn the […]
A see of green in downtown Roanoke Saturday. as hundreds gathered for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Many made it a point to come out and honor their heritage.It was all things Irish Saturday– as hundreds lined the streets in honor of ole Saint Patrick.“He was a man of goodness. We always […]
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primerby Tom PaulinPoetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. Besides, unlike Sense […]
COME tomorrow afternoon at Croke Park, we will be reminded – as we so often are on Six Nations weekends – that when push comes to shove in sport, talk is cheap.You expect a bit of tension when there’s a Triple Crown at stake, but the build-up to this match has been characterised by some […]
The great Irish potato famine that began in 1845 wiped out a fifth of the small country’s population - but it couldn’t displace the potato, long since recovered, as a mainstay of the Irish diet.An Irish Potato Soup is an easy dish to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day next week. Fred Parmenter, a chef instructor at […]
Everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but the celebrations are becoming more about the alcohol content in a person’s blood rather than national pride.Pittsburgh Irish have been marching since 1869 to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland and to keep their culture alive with music, food and drinks. The city’s first parade was so modest […]