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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
The Boston Police Gaelic Column is pictured above leading the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade, which is to be held this Sunday, and is one of more than a hundred St. Patrick's Day parades scheduled this year around the world.
Get in the spirit with this selection of audio files by the Bagpipes & Drums of the Emerald Society of the Chicago Police Department, aka the Cops in Kilts. Here's the Quiet Man Set (mp3).
St. Patrick's Day I consider an anniversary, as it was on that holiday my wife and I first met. So in the beverage of choice on that particular occasion, I raise a toast to the day: Slainte!
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Thos Fitzpatrick is in veritable WHRB Orgy * mode with St. Patrick's Day films and recipes.
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At the Treaty negotiations in London, Lord Birkenhead remarked to Michael Collins: "I may have just signed my political death-warrant", whereupon Collins replied, "I may have signed my actual death-warrant". Nine months later the 31-year-old Collins was killed by one of his former comrades and Ireland lost one of the most dedicated and talented leaders in its history… The introduction to a website devoted to Michael Collins, "The Lost Leader."
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