# la Feile Padraig Beannacht Dibh. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325 "2002-03-14T19:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/21 "2002-03-15T23:17:44Z")
Twisty darling, I knew I wouldn’t be able to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day properly here in Los Angeles, so thank you for bringing that little taste of how it should be done. Thankfully, I have Monday off from work, so methinks I’m going to find an appropriate place to park my ass for some beer that night ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/22 "2002-03-16T07:59:51Z")
St Pat’s in five hours’ time here in Sydney. It’s gonna be a big one here. It is every year. Better get down to the Mercantile Hotel at The Rocks for a pint o’ the good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/23 "2002-03-16T08:20:30Z")
Lets sing some Irish Songs! I’m a Rambler, I’m a Gambler I’m a long ways from Home Well, if you don’t like me Well, leave me alone! I’ll eat when I’m Hungry I’ll drink when I’m Dry If the Moonshine don’t Kill me I’LL LIVE 'TILL I DIE! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/24 "2002-03-16T08:24:08Z")
And I’m off to Dan O’Connells in Carlton (Melbourne, Aus.) to enjoy some slante (how do you do an ‘accent’ on this board??), some green beer, and some eternally depressing recountences of ‘The Troubles’. They get a strange lot in Dan’s on St. Pat’s night, but we’ll all end up as comrades at the end of the night. However, I’ll leave after the eighth drunken rendition of ‘Danny-Boy’…a person can only take SO much after all! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/25 "2002-03-16T08:35:25Z")
Oh, and TwistOfFate, that was the best read I’ve had in a long time!!! Give us a ‘retrospective’ when you regain consciousness OK?🆒 (The sunnies are on because I’ve already been imbibing and I don’t want anyone to see my rheumy eyes, even though the sun has just about gone down here in Eastern Aus) ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/26 "2002-03-16T13:04:29Z")
It truly, truly brings a tear to my eye that I didn’t meet any Irish Dopers when I lived in Dublin back in '98. Of course, since I didn’t know of the existence of this Board back then, it would just have been called “drinking”, and not a Dopefest. I’ve been listening to Celtic Thunder and the Chieftains almost exculsively for the last 48 hours (esp. The Streets of Belfast) and maintaining with nips of Jameson’s. Poor sad sod that I am, I got spoiled by the Guinness in Dublin town and can’t stand the stuff in the US. I’ll make do, though. **Twisty** my good man, you’ve left out one important part to the tradtional piss-up: the obligatory late-night /early morning visit to Abekebabra. Vile though it may be, sometimes it’s what you need. Followed, of course, by drinking straight vodka in a park, stumbling home and sleeping for thirteen hours, then having a massive fry-up. (For those uncertain about the contents of a fry-up, here’s a partial list) fried eggs fried bacon, back or streaky white pudding black pudding potato cakes sausages chips baked beans (Heinz, please) fried tomatoes fried mushrooms gammon fried bread Cover the lot with ketchup or brown sauce depending on your perversion and dig in. Guaranteed hangover cure, if you have a wee Guinness or Buck’s Fizz with. As for my own plans, they involve a few close friends (Arthur Guinness and John Jameson), some live people and sitting round my living room slagging the historical perfidy of the British. Sadly, there’s work Monday. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/27 "2002-03-16T16:06:45Z")
Christ. my head. Tonight, Fat Boy Slim. Music, drink, and dancing. I am planning on staying drunk for 24 hours tomorrow. And Abrakebabra can turn you green at any time of the year. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/28 "2002-03-16T17:26:34Z")
My to-do list for the weekend: Go shopping and buy the following: -corned beef -cabbage -potatoes -Guinness Rent the Quiet Man (a family tradition) Make some Irish soda bread and cook everything else that I bought Watch the Quiet Man while drinking and eating Here are bits of Irish songs from the movie: “The Shannon we crossed in a boat I lathered 'em with me shillelagh for he trod on the tail of me mush mush mush too roo li addy singin’ mush mush mush too ri li ay and I lathered him with me shillelagh for he trod on the tail of me coat” “There was a wild colonial boy, Jack Duggan was his name He was born and bred in Ireland, in a place called Castlemaine He was his father’s only son, his mother’s pride and joy And dearly did his parents love the wild colonial boy” “As I went out one morning it being the month of May A farmer and his daughter I spied along my way And the daughter sat down quite calmly to the milking of her cow Saying ‘I will and I must get married for the humour is on me now’” Incidentally, I’ve thought of naming a son (when I have kids) Patrick but spelling it Padraig. He’d probably hate me for it. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/29 "2002-03-16T17:55:45Z")
Have fun and be safe **Twisty**! Happy St Pat’s! I shall celebrate with a little green of my own. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/30 "2002-03-16T19:03:51Z")
Would someone grant me the favor of a translation? “la Feile Padraig Beannacht Dibh.” ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/31 "2002-03-17T02:46:28Z")
Well, it sorta means Happy St Patrick’s Day. But Twisty’s got it a bit garbled 😉_Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig Oraibh_ is how it’s usually written, and it literally means “The blessings of St Patrick’s Day to you”. ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/32 "2002-03-17T05:10:46Z")
Thank you **rudah** , now can you help us wannabe’s with the prononciation? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/33 "2002-03-17T08:13:47Z")
um, roughly: BAN-uch\*-tee nuh FAY-luh POR-ig OR-uv. \*that’s the ch sound as in “Bach” ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/34 "2002-03-17T19:27:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > **Christ. my head. \ I am planning on staying drunk for 24 hours tomorrow.** Looks like you took some classic Irish advice…“Avoid hangovers. Stay drunk.” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325/35 "2002-03-18T00:36:15Z")
I arrived home last night from a ski trip to France. To my utter horror, my fridge was entirely devoid of Guinness. (Yes, the sissy widget cans. Still working on that mainline connection to St. James’ Gate. ;)) Luckily, a bottle of Jameson saves the day. So: here’s to that weird and beautiful green island a few hundred clicks west. And here’s to the fine inhabitants of said isle I’ve ever had the pleasure to raise a pint of stout with. And to those with whom I will in the future. I think I’ll include my new sig. It somehow seems, I dunno, appropriate. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-feile-padraig-beannacht-dibh/98325.md?page=1)