Books, Babble and Blarney
... with plenty of Serious Bits in Between. A Blog by author EA Bucchianeri
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Showing posts with label
Ireland
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Thursday, 14 March 2019
St. Patrick's Well – Clonmel Ireland, Co. Tipperary
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Ireland's mystic Catholic history is steeped in the tradition of holy wells dotted throughout the island. It is said that rat...
Saturday, 11 March 2017
Martyrdom by Passion (and a Brain-Ball): an Irish Legend
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One day I was glancing through a booklet entitled "The History of St. Patrick's Parish and Church" of San Francisco pri...
Friday, 11 March 2016
When St. Patrick Impaled a Convert
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There are so many stories of St. Patrick, but one that sticks in my mind, (forgive the pun, you’ll see it in a minute), is the story of...
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
O'Leary the Leering Leprechaun
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By now, we all have seen, That little eejit on the shelf, The naughty, spying git, The smug Christmas Elf. We forget he’s...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
St. Patrick's Purgatory
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(Post originally published March 16, 2013) St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was famed for his strict fasts and his prac...
The Shamrock Purist
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(Post originally published March 17, 2012) Happy St. Patrick's Day! According to Tradition, when asked by the Irish people to...
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