St. Patrick's Day: Ireland and Choctaw Nation Renew Their Ties
L a feile Padraig sona duit and God save all here in the shebeen. In my family, St. Patrick's Day always was more of a religious holiday than it was anything else. My grandmother always went to Mass, and March 17 was her birthday. Which, of course, did not preclude a post-liturgical drop of the craytur after the final blessing. So, generally, I stay away from the green beer, which is an abomination anyway, and far away from all of what made Flann O'Brien's St. Augustine decry the holiday, and the Saint Himself. That reminds me. You have a Professor Binchy in your university outfit in Dublin a...
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