Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

 Tradition

Our Saint Patrick’s Day dinner in 2026. Our red cabbage was a raw salad, and the corned beef came in a
package already sliced, which may be a little off the traditional meal. We ate it the evening before the holiday.

Here is the online summary of this tradition: “Corned beef and cabbage is considered an Irish-American dish, not traditionally Irish. While Irish immigrants brought the tradition of eating boiled meat and cabbage to the U.S., they substituted expensive Irish bacon with cheaper corned beef purchased from Jewish butchers in New York City during the 19th century.”

Corned beef and green cabbage from the past. 

Ireland

St. Patrick’s Day near Galway a few years ago (photo from Arny).

The best meal we had in Ireland in 2011 was a plate of fresh oysters in a restaurant near Galway.

An Irish rainbow

The tomb of the poet William Butler Yeats.

Dublin, 2011

A statue of Molly Malone (of the very sad song).

The castle.

School children playing in a park.

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