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Saint
Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from
Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland,
but there probably never have been -- the island was
separated from the rest of the continent at the end
of the Ice Age.
As in many old pagan religions,
serpent symbols were common and often worshipped.
Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably
symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice.
While not the first to bring Christianity to
Ireland, it is Patrick who is said to have
encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their
pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the
warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and
thousands of their subjects in the "Holy Wells" that
still bear this name.
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Infamous Irish
Toasts
Drink
to Health
We will drink this drink
As Patrick would drink it
Full of grace and spilling over
Without fighting or quarreling or hint of shame
Or knowing that we will last until tomorrow.
To St. Patrick
St. Patrick was gentlemen
Who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland
Here’s toasting to his health.
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good St Patrick
And see all those snakes again.
At the dinner party
May the roof above us never fall in and
may we friends gathered below never fall out.
Let’s all put on our dancin’ shoes and wear our
shamrocks green
And toast our friends, both here and there and
everywhere between
Long live the Irish, long live the cheer,
Long live our friendship, year after year.
Friendship
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
Slow to make enemies,
Quick to make friends.
But rich or poor
Quick or slow
May you know nothing but
happiness from this day forward.
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