Some interesting trivia about St. Patrick's Day for your consideration on this auspicious occasion. Hope you have something bright green to wear!
In Chicago, they really deliver
A fine Irish Day from their quiver
Nothing's done in half-measures
For this fun city treasures
Dying things green--things large as a river.
The Irish saved civilization
And that fact alone is occasion
To honor the race
And give thanks for the grace
Of the monks' manuscript duplication.
Gaelic is making a comeback
From the brink, near extinct, so our brains wrack
In that tongue to announce it
But we can't pronounce it!
We're just happy it's got off its sidetrack.
Let's hope these good folks recommission
Celtic language and culture transmission
And once more make it stylish
To speak and read Irish
And take back their ethnic tradition.
"The luck of the Irish" is fable
Anyone reading history's able
To figure that out
With the British about
Life was brutish, poor, short, and unstable.