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Misconceptions_____________________________________________________ Resist the temptation to use the greeting top of the morning, as it's only been heard to date in the corny Hollywood movies on an Oirish theme, such as the Fred Astaire movie Finian's Rainbow. Another no-no are the exclamations bedad and begorrah (both altered vesions of "by God!")
Limerick______________________________________________________________ A dieting girleen named Flynn
Reduced until she was thin.
She's no more, I'm afraid
For she sipped lemonade,
And slipped through the straw and fell in.
Holidays ________________________________________________________
New Year's Day 1 January St. Patrick's Day 17 March
Easter Good friday, Easter Sunday
and Easter Monday
May Holiday 1 May
June Holiday first Monday in June
August Holiday first Monday in Aug
October Holiday first Monday in Oct
Christmas Day 25 December
St Stephens Day 26 December
Song lyrics___________________________________________________________ "THE SKILLET POT"
Did you ever eat Colcannon,
made from lovely pickled cream?
With the flour and scallions blended
like a picture in a dream.
Did you ever make a hole on top
to hold the melting flake
Of the creamy flav'ry butter
that your mother used to make?
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Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I.
And the more I think about it sure the nearer I'm to cry.
Oh, wasn't it the happy days
when troubles we had not
And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.
Did you ever bring potato cake in a basket to the school,
Tucked underneath your arm with your book
your slate and rule,
And when teacher wasn't looking
sure a great big bite you'd take
Of the flowery flavoured buttered
soft and sweet potato cake.
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Did you ever go a courting as the evening sun went down,
And the moon began a-peeping
from behind the Hill o' Down,
As you wandered down the boreen
where the leprechaun was seen,
And you whispered loving phrases
to you little fair cailin.
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