Saint Patricks Day

Bloody Sunday;

*There was 2 Bloody Sundays. The first Bloody Sunday was on Sunday January 22nd, 1905 in St. Peterburg, Russia, where unarmed peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petitionto Tsars NicholasII were gunned down by the imperial Guard.

*Then on Sunday January 30th, 1972 twenty seven people were shot by British soldiers after a civil rights march in the Bogside area of the city of Derry, North Ireland. The marched was organized by Derry MP Ivan Cooper to protest the internment of Irishmen in British occupied Northern Ireland, over 15,ooo people attended the march to show their opinion towards the British.


Limericks;
*Limericks are believed to have originated from songs brought back form from France by the Irish Bridage returning to their native after fighting in Europe in the 18th century. Limericks became very popular during the 1800 and early 1900s. Edward Lear made the limerick popular with his book of Nonsense, published in 1846. Many of the earlier limericks were off-colored and libelous of public officials. Today the limerick is far better known in England and Ireland. They broke into what had been the once unmentionable frontier in proper English societl(smut)
EXAMPLE:

The limerick is furtive and mean
You must keep her in close quarantine
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene

Blarney Stone;
*Five miles north west of a small city of Cork is the village of Blarney. Near the village, standing almost 90 feet in height is the castle of Blarney with its world-famous Blarney Stone. More ten 300,000 people come to kiss the Blarney Stone each year, in hope of gaining more eloquent speech. While the Blarney Castle that visitors see today was constructed in 1446, the history of the place goes back 20 years/two centuries before that time. The story begins with a magical stone, its origins shrouded in mystery. One legend says it was the rock that Moses struck with his staff to make water for the Israelites during their exodus from Egypt. Another legend relates that it had once been Jacob’s Pillow and that the prophet Jeremiah had brought it to Ireland. The buildingof of the Blarney Stone took many hands and years. Repeating the power of the stone, Francis Sylvester Mahony, an Irish man of the early nineteenth century, wrote...

There is a stone there, that whoever kisses,

Oh! He never misses to grow eloquent:

'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber,

Or become a member of Parliament

references;
BLOODY SUNDAY
http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/Bloody_Sunday_(Northern_Ireland_1972)
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/249312
http://www.yourirish.com/bloody-sunday.htm
LIMERICKS
http://www.geocities.com/writersandartistsguild/newsletter5-2.html
BLARNEY STONE
http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/ireland/blarney_stone.html