Tagged: st. patrick's day

12:02pm

Sat March 17, 2012
Festivals and events

Photos from the St. Patrick's Day Dash in Seattle - share yours

According to the Website for the St. Patrick's Day Dash in Seattle, the event began 27 years ago as a race between bars and as a training event for an Irish Olympian. Now it’s Seattle’s largest single-distance run/walk, jog or crawl where the winners cross the finish before the last person starts.  The Dash covers nearly 4 miles of city streets with a 15,000 person ribbon of green. 

We'd love to see your photos – please post them in the comments section below. Cheers!

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12:00pm

Sat March 17, 2012
st. patrick's day

A St. Patrick's poem on shamrocks and stereotypes

Originally published on Sat March 17, 2012 3:22 am

Credit iStockphoto.com

Ireland has launched some of the greatest writers in English literature, from William Butler Yeats to Oscar Wilde to George Bernard Shaw.

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4:30am

Wed March 14, 2012
Food for Thought

They don't eat corned beef and cabbage in Ireland

Sure, the traditional St. Patrick's  Day dinner all over the world is corned beef and cabbage.  But not in Ireland.  So what do the Irish in Ireland eat on March 17th?

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