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What better way to spend St. Patrick's
Day than
a visit to the nearest Irish Pub!! Gather up all your friends and long
lost relatives and come celebrate as only the Irish know how! We'll sing boisterous
songs at the top of our lungs, spin tall tales handed down from generation to
generation, eat and drink and make merry until the sun comes up. Just walk
through the door....we're all here waiting for you!
Sláinte ("Cheers").
Come right on in and join the fun!
Order a pint and raise your glass in a toast
to St. Patrick!
Gather around the fire and join in the
singing!
Here's the words so you can
sing
along with the band
Kilgary Mountain (Whiskey In The Jar)
As I was a-walkin' 'round Kilgary Mountain
I met with Captain Pepper as his money he was countin'
I rattled my pistols and I drew forth my saber
Sayin', "Stand and deliver, for I am the bold deceiver."
Chorus
Musha rig um du rum da
Whack fol the daddy o
Whack fol the daddy o
There's whiskey in the jar.
The shinin' golden coins did look so bright and jolly
I took 'em with me home and I gave 'em to my Molly
She promised and she vowed that she never would deceive me
But the devil's in the women and they never can be easy.
When I was awakened between six and seven
The guards were all around me in numbers odd and even
I flew to my pistols, but alas I was mistaken
For Molly's drawn my pistols and a prisoner I was taken.
They put me into jail without judge or writin'
For robbing Colonel Pepper on Kilgary Mountain
But they didn't take my fists so I knocked the sentry down
And bid a fond farewell to the jail in Sligo town.
Now some take delight in fishin' and in bowlin'
And others take delight in carriages a-rollin'
But I take delight in the juice of the barley
And courtin' pretty girls in the morning so early.
Be sure to tip the waiter
Irish peasants have for centuries
used special recipes to help them stay healthy and to help them survive both illness ,the
weather and other hardships.When mixed with traditional Irish hospitality, good music and
a warm fire they help to make a fine evening.
Irish Traditional Beverages
The Irish do not drink only that which is commercially available in the Pubs- Nor do they
consume only alcoholic beverages. Their milk and cream is the best in the world,
sometimes the local water contains the flavor of the agesand of the peat and Their tea is
wonderful!
Here are some special beverages
which are part of the folk tradition -they can be made at home for any occasion. See how
many you recognize from Irish Literary sources! These you can make yourself at home in the
old tradition.
Fuzzy Navel
Serving Size : 1
3 ounces peach schnapps
3 ounces orange juice
Combine ingredients and pour over ice in a tall glass.
Garnish with orange slice.
Whiskey Sour
A Whiskey Sour contains 2 ounces of whiskey, 1
ounce of
lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of sugar syrup. The mixture is shaken with ice, strained
and served straight up in a shot glass.
Friday Evening
3 cl Irish Whiskey
2 cl Red Orange Liqueur
1 cl fresh Lemonjuice
fill up with peachjuice
Decoration:
some fruits (whatever you like)
Royal Turkey
2 cl Irish Whiskey
2 cl Apricot Brandy
2 cl London Dry Gin
4 cl Ananasjuice
Fill up with Lemonade
Decoration:
1 Maraschinocherry
Raise your glass in a toast!!
Health and long life to
you,
Land without rent to you,
The woman of your choice to you,
A long life,
and may your bones rest in Ireland! |
Whisky Punch
Serves 1 Ingredients:1 measure of Whiskey (uisce beatha-the water of life), 2 teaspoons
white sugar,4-6 cloves, 2 slices fresh lemon,200 ml(7 oz.) boiling water.1. Put the
Whiskey sugar,cloves and lemon slices into a strong preheated glass.2.Pour on the boiling
water and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Version 2: 1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar,3 cloves,1 slice lemon,
1 jigger Irish Whiskey,boiling water.
Irish Coffee
Version 1-1 1/2 teaspoons sugar,Hot strong black coffee,1 jigger Irish whiskey,1
tablespoon whipped cream. Heat a stemmed whiskey goblet. Add the sugar and enough of the
hot coffee to dissolve the sugar. Stir well. Add the Irish whiskey and fill the glass to
within an inch ofthe brim with more very hot black coffee. Float the cream on top. do not
mix the cream and the coffee. The hot whiskey-laced coffee is sipped through the velvety
cream.
Version 2 - 1 teaspoon sugar,hot strong black coffee,1 jigger
Irish whiskey,1 tablespoon double cream. Pour cream over a teaspoon held over coffee
so that it floats on the coffee.
Scalteen
1-2 teaspoons honey,2 tablespoons Irish Whiskey,1/2 cup hot milk. Blend honey and whiskey
together and stir the mixture into hot milk.
Egg Flip
Version 1- 3/4 cup milk,1 egg yolk,1 teaspoon sugar,1 jigger Irish whiskey,grated nutmeg.
Scald the milk. Beat the egg yolk and sugar together. Add the whiskey and pour the
scalding milk on top. Add the grated nutmeg and serve in a heated glass.
Version2 - Make as above but fold in the stiffly beaten
white of an egg before serving.
Ah...here come the old cronies with
their jokes!
O'Connell was staggering home
with a pint of booze in his back pocket when he slipped and fell heavily. Struggling to
his feet, he felt something wet running down his leg.
"Please, God," he implored, "let it be blood!"
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Are you Laughing???
Here's another!
Pat went into the jewelry
store, pulled out his pocket watch and told the clerk it wasn't working. The clerk
unscrewed the back and opened it up and a little cockroach fell out.
Pat exclaimed, "no wonder it didn't work, the
engineer is dead!" |
Time to get a fresh pint and make
yourself comfortable - Patrick O'Shay has lit his pipe
and that mean it's story-telling time!
Shortening the Road
Himself and his son were walkin' the road together one day,
and the Goban said to the son, “Shorten the road for me.”
So the son began to walk fast, thinking that would do it,
but the Goban sent him back home when he didn’t understand
what to do. The next day they were walking, and the Goban
said again to shorten the road for him, and this time he
began to run, and the Goban sent him home again. When
he went in and told the wife he was sent home the second
time, she began to think, and she said, “When he bids you
shorten the road, it is that he wants you to be telling him
stories.” For that is what the Goban meant, but it took the daughter-in-law to
understand it. And it is what I was saying
to the other woman, that if one of ourselves was making a
journey, if we had another along with us, it would not seem to
be one half as long as if we wouldn’t be alone. And if this
is so with us, it is much more with a stranger, and so I went
up the hill with you to shorten the road, telling you that story.
Keep going...the fun is just beginning!!!
On to the Toasts of Ireland !!
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