Tag Archives: St Patrick’s Day

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They start early in Australia.

Mark Quinn writes:

Happy St.Patrick’s Day from me and my brother Patrick Quinn (above) in Melbourne…

 

imageAlan Daly writes:

Big hello to my sister (Cat) and Brian. Expats, currently in Kuala Lumpur (above) celebrating Paddy’s Day! Miss ye!

 

photo Wayne O’Fathaigh writes:

Megève, Haute-Savoie, France. From the finish area of the FIS World Masters skiing championship. Enjoy the day at home

 

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Bob Coggins writes;

Defiant tricolour in Soll, Austria, for the day that’s in it…It WAS for this.

Patrick’s Day greetings/messages to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie (include photo if you wish).

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Enda Kenny with an “emigrant’s tea pot”, a gift from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in NYC this morning.

Via Mary Regan

Meanwhile, in big girl’s blouse news:

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From the Irish Embassy, Japan.

Minister [Leo] Varadkar presents an award to Japan GAA Ladies Team and receives their jersey in return at  the Tokyo Emerald Ball [last night].

Japan GAA

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At the Tiki Hut.

This morning (they’re four hours behind)

Tim Lavers (above) writes:

Hey guys, just sitting in Barbados (with Nick and Philip, top) at the Tiki Hut and they are doing an Irish night street party with tricolor shots and foreign extra Guinness! Eukk!

They are making a big effort, to be fair.

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St Patrick’s Day in Berlin (above) last year on the Damm Hipsterstrassen.

Are you having an event or know a good place to go?

Home or ‘abroad’.

Suggestions welcome below.

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Pics by James Cullen

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Perfection has been achieved.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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The shamrock and bowl years

Diarmaid Keane, of the US Embassy, Dublin, writes:

From Reagan to Clinton, Nixon to JFK – every U.S. President since 1952 has embraced the shamrock ceremony at The White House differently.
With help from the National Archives of Ireland and the RTE archives we have put together a short video explaining how the day has evolved over the years.

 

Top pic: Ambassador Thomas Kiernan and John F Kennedy on St Patrick’s Day, 1961 via Boston Irish Heritage
Pic 2: Ireland’s ambassador William Fay and Richard Nixon, White House, March 17, 1969. Via Nixon Foundation
Pic 3: Garrett Fitzgerald, then Foreign Minister with Jimmy Carter, 1977 via US Embassy, Dublin
Pic 4: Brian Lenihan Snr and then Vice President George H Bush, 1988.
Pic 5: Albert Reynolds, Bill Clinton and Phil Coulter, 1994 via US Embassy, Dublin
pic 6: John Bruton and Bill Clinton, 1995 as above
Pic 7: Bertie Ahern and George W Bush, 2001 via CDR
Pic 8: Brian Cowen and Barack Obama, 2010 via US Embassy, Dublin
Pic 9: Waterford Crystal bowl for Barack Obama, 2012 via US Embassy, Dublin