Pages Tagged “St. Patrick’s Day”
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- Ah yes, the grand Irish tradition of surfing
Sometimes I wonder about the “everyone — and everything — is Irish for a day” approach to St. Patrick’s Day.
- Fighting Irish
I caught a story on The World (PRI) today about Los Angeles band Ollin’s song tribute to Saint Patrick’s Battalion (in Spanish, El Batallón de Los San Patricios)—a group of several hundred primarily Irish Americans who, during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), left the US Army to fight alongside the Mexicans. They fought fiercely for a […]