Sunday, March 17, 2013

Kiss Me! I am of Eastern European Ancestry!


Where did the expression come from to Kiss Me I’m Irish and all other interesting bits of Irish blarney? Hold onto you seats I am about to waylay any wonderment's that may be unresolved and for sure with me it might very well be a bumpy ride.

The shamrock: “According to St. Patrick's Day lore, Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to explain the Christian holy trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Today, St. Patrick's Day revelers wear a shamrock. Trifolium dubium, the wild-growing, three-leaf clover that some botanists consider the official shamrock, is an annual plant that germinates in the spring. Other three-leaf clovers, such as the perennials Trifolium repens and Medicago lupulina, are "bogus shamrocks," according to the Irish Times. John Parnell, a botanist at Trinity College Dublin, said that Trifolium dubium is the most commonly used shamrock today, which lends credence to the claims of authenticity.” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120316-saint-patricks-day-2012-march-17-facts-ireland-irish-nation/ “Who Are The Leprechauns of Ireland?

As part of Irish mythology and folklore the Leprechauns are part of our faerie folk, called by some as the “wee folk”. As a cousin of the clurichaun they are known to inhabited Ireland well before the arrival of the Celts. Small enough for one to sit comfortable on your shoulder they are very smartly dressed in small suites with waist coats, hats and buckled shoes. As mischievous and intelligent folk they are general harmless to the general population in Ireland, although they are known to play the odd trick on farmers and local population of villages and towns. It is said that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold, hidden deep in the Irish countryside. To protect the leprechaun’s pot of gold the Irish fairies gave them magical powers to use if ever captured by a human or an animal. Such magic an Irish leprechaun would perform to escape capture would be to grant three wishes or to vanish into thin air!” http://www.yourirish.com/folklore/the-leprechauns/ Best Answer - Chosen by Asker "You are looking at a couple of different ideas and beings and time frames here that have been all mixed up together and cobbled to make up this folk tale. Technically the whole idea of this is to describe something that cannot happen. You can never find the end of a rainbow. In Ireland, where this saying started, rainbows would often appear to end at the burrow mounds or megalithic tombs, which were said to be entrances into the World of the Fae or the Tuatha de Dannan, who were known to have gold. In the 1700's the English turned this underground race of beings from majestic, to-be-feared creatures to small, strange looking caricatures of their true selves and dubbed them 'leprechauns'. These leprechauns where then said to guard the pots of gold but that you could make them give you the gold if you captured one... And the whole folktale was born.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, as I said, is a powerful image of an unattainable goal, but one worth (perhaps) pursuing.” http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111104070233AANX8Pr Kiss Me I’m Irish! “It is a reference to the Blarney Stone. Kissing the Blarney stone brings you good luck so if you can't kiss the stone the next best chance of getting good luck is "kissing an Irish person." (Side Note: The Blarney Stone is the 'Stone of Eloquence' in Blarney Castle, kissing it gives you the ability to never be lost for words, becoming a smooth talker so-to-speak)” Unsigned. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_does_%27Kiss_me_I%27m_Irish%27_come_from

Now I hope that is enough info to make your blooming greenery day! On that responsible recycler personage of a merry let’s be green day, it’s not that easy being green day, you bet my sweet shillelagh! Which, by the way, is just a nice name for a fancy walking stick or not so fancy one… now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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