Happy St. Patricks Day

Well tomorrow will be St.Patricks day. A day to be celebrated all over the world.

There is a wealth of stories of how the Irish were sent there as slaves to work in the sugar plantations. Slavery was widespread. The singer Riana is of that stock.

I see that the Black Irish was downloaded and that song of the migrant.

The song was written by a Garda who was travelling on a bus when the song came to hin. He had a pen and note book, so he wrote it down. Bing Crosbie the famous American singer had an international hit. The royalties paid for his house. Then it features in the Quiet man movie the income put his kids through collage, then it appeared again in Stephen Spielberg's movie ET. Which paid for his retirement home in Spain.

One interesting point is that he wrote this fantastic hit song. It came just like that and he never wrote another one.

I found out that they are going to knock down an iconic Dublin pub The Brian Boru on Prospect Ave to make way for the construction of the new metro railway.

The story about this pub that is stuck in my mind concerns a pub across the way The Gravediggers. Just at the back of the cemetery. Well the story goes that one of the Dubliners folk group had died and all the best of Irish talent had gathered in the pub to celebrate his life.

The owner of the pub was (I forget his first name ) Kavanagh and he was very fixed in his ways. After a while a banjo came and when the first chord sounded the owner shouted.

"There is no music in this pub, if I let you sing today that lot over there will be singing tomorrow. And they can't sing a note" 

Everyone to a man finished up their drinks and walked over to the Brian Boru where they sang all night and nearly drank the pub dry.

By the way The Gravediggers is one of Dublin's best pubs.