Interesting. but I think most of us probably knew that this was an American dish. I thought I read somewhere that the corned beef was a substitute for a dish not readily found in the American's. My father used to say that in the old days - now for him the old days would have been in the 1920's, refrigeration was a problem because of the ice man's routine and delivery date, so store owners would take the beef that did not sell and brine it in order to preserve it. In those days, corned beef was cheap. Then came the electric refrigerators, store owners picked only the best of cuts of beef to brine to meet the demand, so we would pay more for corned beef , then the beef. And of course today, the local butcher shops are like hens teeth and there is no more barrel pickles, barrels of kraut and of course corned beef. Kind of a little sad. Liz who loves corned beef and cabbage and had her share today. Sad to say I was too tired to make Jack Sweeney's, Aunt's recipe for the soda bread. In a message dated 3/16/2011 8:01:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Here's something I always wondered. How did corned beef get to be Irish? I can certainly see the cabbage bit. And we all have heard about the famine diet of praties and buttermilk (which dietitians say is a remarkly wholesome, if monotonous, diet. Anyhow, herei s what Google has to say about it. Happy St. Patrick's Day, Listers Ray Who's not real fond of corned beef, and especially not of cabbage, but he had some last Saturday. =============== _http://www.europeancuisines.com/Why-We-Have-No-Corned-Beef-Recipes_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Why-We-Have-No-Corned-Beef-Recipes) Ireland: Why We Have No Corned Beef & Cabbage Recipes (Looking for Irish dishes, both traditional and modern? Check our St. Patrick's Day Irish Recipe Festivals from 2007, 2008, and 2009.) _http://www.europeancuisines.com/Seventeen-Saint-Patricks-Day-Recipes-March- 17_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Seventeen-Saint-Patricks-Day-Recipes-March-17) _http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Irish-Saint-St-Patricks-Day-Festiva l-Of-Traditional-Authentic-Recipes_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Irish-Saint-St-Patricks-Day-Festival-Of-Traditional-Authentic-Recipes) _http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-2009-Saint-Patricks-Day-Festival-Of -Traditional-Authentic-Irish-Recipes-Begins_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-2009-Saint-Patricks-Day-Festival-Of-Traditional-Authentic-Irish-Re cipes-Begins) (Trying to discover what modern Irish people eat? Click here to find out!) _http://www.europeancuisines.com/node/57_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/node/57) Ask someone -- especially a North American -- who hasn't lived or visited here about what Irish food is like, and nine times out of ten, as they grope for answers, they'll mention corned beef and cabbage. However, investigation shows that, while people here do sometimes eat corned beef and cabbage, they don't eat it all that much. Hardly any of them eat it for St. Patrick's Day. And it's absolutely not the Irish national dish. The first corned beef: food fit for kings Some people ask, "Is corned beef really an Irish dish?" It is. Whatever might have been going on elsewhere in Europe, the Irish worked out for themselves how to salt-cure beef some time in the first millennium A.D. Corned beef is first mentioned "in print" in the 12th century poem called the Vision of MacConglinne, which tells us a lot about Irish food as it was eaten at that time. In the Vision, corned beef is described as a delicacy given to a king, in an attempt to conjure "the demon of gluttony" out of his belly.This delicacy status makes little sense until one understands that beef was not a major part of most Irish people's diets until the 1900's. While cattle were kept here from very early times, they were kept mostly for their milk -- few people except perhaps the Swiss have ever so loved their dairy products as the Irish have, and the ancient Irish especially. ("They make seventy-several kinds of food out of milk, both sweet and sour," said one bemused sixteenth-century traveller and historian, "and they love them the best when they're sourest.") From the earliest historical times, for routine eating, pork was always the favorite, because pigs bred much faster and were a lot less labor-intensive to rear. Cattle were only slaughtered when they were no longer any good for milking, or for breeding purposes; otherwise, they were prized as a common medium for barter. The size of one's herd of cattle was an indication of status, wealth and power -- hence all the stories of tribal chieftains and petty kings of the ancient days, endlessly rustling one another's cattle (the greatest of the ancient wars of legend was started by one of these thefts, the Cattle Raid of Cooley). Eating beef, except for that of a cow past its milking days or accidentally killed, was the cultural equivalent of lighting your cigars with hundred-dollar bills...unless you were a chieftain, or a king, in which case you could afford it. The hungry times: where's the beef? In later centuries, when the cattle raids were long done, the majority of Irish people still didn't eat very much beef -- because it was still much too expensive. Those who did eat beef, tended to eat it fresh: corned beef again surfaces in writings of the late 1600's as a specialty, a costly delicacy (expensive because of the salt) made to be eaten at Easter, and sometimes at Hallowe'en. -- Then other factors, tragic ones, made beef even rarer in the Irish diet. It often astounds people to discover that, during the worst years of the Great Famine, among much other food, Irish tenant farmers were still exporting hundreds of thousands of barrels of salt beef ("corned" beef, it then came to be called, because of the grain or "corn"-sized chunks of salt used in the preserving process) to Britain and Canada. But that was beef that the farmers were raising on behalf of the landlords who owned the land on which they lived and worked: they couldn't touch it themselves, and couldn't possibly afford what little fresh beef came on the market in their areas. Some bacon joints: click to enlarge The typical Irish bacon joint: click to enlarge _http://www.europeancuisines.com/LargeBaconJoints.jpg_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/LargeBaconJoints.jpg) Many Irish people, during that period, got their first taste of beef when they emigrated to America or Canada -- where both salt and meat were cheaper. There, when they got beef, the emigrants tended to treat it the same way they would have treated a "bacon joint" at home in Ireland. (Click here for instructions on how to duplicate the Irish recipe for a bacon joint with cabbage.) They soaked the salt beef to draw off the excess salt, then braised or boiled it with cabbage, and served it in its own juices with only minimal spicing (a bay leaf or so, perhaps, and some pepper). This dish does still turn up on some Irish tables at Easter. But it's otherwise much better known to North Americans, who are likely to see it turning up all over around Saint Patrick's Day, or (in some places with heavy Irish-American constituencies) at election time. Why the festive association of corned beef slipped from Easter to the Saint's day, on the western side of the Atlantic, it's now very difficult to tell. Tourist's delight: but the native Irish aren't interested Of course some places in Ireland will be serving corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. But almost without exception, they'll be feeding it to the tourists. To most native Irish people, these days, the dish is too poor, plain, old-fashioned, or boring to eat on a holiday, or just too much trouble to go to. They'd sooner make something more festive ...if they bother cooking at all, in these days when (a) the Irish shopper has as many frozen-food, microwaveable, and cook-chill options available to him or her as anyone else in industrialized western Europe, and (b) doesn't just go out to eat instead of bothering to cook anything. In any case, an observer of the supermarkets both in the city and country will note the appearance of a few packages of corned beef in the cold case during St. Patrick's week...but just a few. A true national dish doesn't put in so poor a showing. This does still leave us with the question of what the Irish national dish is. If by this we mean the dish most often cooked at home when the cook (a) doesn't feel like simply microwaving something and (b) is thinking about "traditional" food, the winner might very well be that "bacon joint" -- various cuts of salted or smoked and salted pork. At our local supermarket, heaps of 'boiling bacon', no corned beef to be found: click to enlarge In our local supermarket, heaps of boiling bacon, no corned beef to be found: click to enlarge _http://www.europeancuisines.com/SmallBaconShelf.jpg_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/SmallBaconShelf.jpg) The joint would sometimes be cooked alone, or it might be braised with a small chicken keeping it company in the pot; it might be served with vegetables, or with potatoes boiled in their jackets. For holiday eating, the winner would probably be spiced beef, found at Christmastime in the butcher's window with a red ribbon around it, served cold, sliced thin, with soda bread and a pint of Guinness on the side. (Though there are also people who will argue loudly for roast goose at Michaelmas or Christmas, or lamb at Easter, as well as for other festive occasions.) The St. Patrick's Day dish: an (ongoing) investigation What people do eat here on St. Patrick's Day is a good question. We put the question to one of our local radio stations, South East Radio, which serves south Wicklow and parts of counties Wexford and Kilkenny. They kindly conducted an informal telephone poll to see what people liked to eat on "the day that's in it". The responses we got were things like, "Eat? I eat pints." (One respondent referred jocularly to the pint of Guinness as a "shamrock sandwich".) One lady mentioned a dish her family sometimes made on The Day, recalling the colors of the Irish flag, and using cabbage, turnip and potatoes. But no one else of the twenty-five people who responded mentioned any specific food as being of any interest. -- Meanwhile, inspection of two of the local branches of the two major supermarket chains (Tesco in Arklow, and Superquinn in Carlow) revealed a total of eight packages of corned beef (about evenly divided between brisket and silverside). These were vastly outnumbered by heaps of boiling bacon -- a couple hundred pounds' weight of it in each store. So the conclusion has to be that there's no particular food that's important to Saint Patrick's Day as it's celebrated in Ireland. Over here, the celebration itself is what matters. (Click here for a list of things that the native Irish and resident "New Irish" were doing on The Day in 2007.) _http://www.europeancuisines.com/Happy-Saint-Patricks-Day-Beannachtai-na-Fei le-Padraig_ (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Happy-Saint-Patricks-Day-Beannachtai-na-Feile-Padraig) And it can safely be said that almost none of the locals will be eating corned beef and cabbage. Since our website's emphasis is on European foods rather than North American ones, and since we think there are a lot more interesting and typically Irish dishes that people celebrating St. Patrick's Day might enjoy eating, we won't be carrying any recipes for corned beef and cabbage here. (There are also sooooo many CB&C recipes out there for interested parties to choose from, and we'd rather concentrate on the less well-known Irish options.) But here are a few links to Web sites that have good-looking recipes you might check. * Stephanie da Silva's recipe. The spicing suggests non-Irish influences, but it still looks good. Stephanie's recipe is the one which appears in the Irish section of the FAQ for the venerable Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.celtic. _http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/Eire/7.13.1.html_ (http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/Eire/7.13.1.html) * The recipe in Mike Audleman's and John Lyver's Dutch Oven Cookbook _http://www.macscouter.com/Cooking/DutchOvenRecipes5A.html#5C3_ (http://www.macscouter.com/Cooking/DutchOvenRecipes5A.html#5C3) * Something a little on the unusual side: a recipe for CB&C with Jalapeno dumplings. _http://recipes.stevex.net/recipe/corned_beef_and_cabbage_with_parsley_dumpl ings_(tabasco_ (http://recipes.stevex.net/recipe/corned_beef_and_cabbage_with_parsley_dumplings_(tabasco) ) * "The smell of corned beef and cabbage is always in the air come Saint Patty's Day...." A recipe for potatoes stuffed with corned beef. The article suggests that this is just the thing for "the morning after the green beer". (You know, if people stopped putting green stuff in their beer, it might cause less trouble. The Irish sure don't do anything like that...) _http://www.sterlinginn.com/recipie/TBPOT.HTM_ (http://www.sterlinginn.com/recipie/TBPOT.HTM) Meanwhile, looking for a more natively Irish dish? Try this -- This is a video on how to make soda bread; for those who have never tried before. But surely you would want to use Jack Sweeney's recipe, wouldn't you? (Or I'll kick you off the list!!!!) "Cake" style soda bread, part 1 | _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPzyodY4_g_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPzyodY4_g) "Cake" style soda bread, part 2 _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WW6bEKm-Y_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WW6bEKm-Y) "Farl" style soda bread, part 1 | _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQpK992A30_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQpK992A30) "Farl" style soda bread, part 2 _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snUOUQwLDQQ_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snUOUQwLDQQ) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [_mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ]On Behalf Of Michael Danahy Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:03 PM To: Christina Finn Hunt Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day And Christina I'm going to remember how I hated corned beef and cabbage growing up. My grandmother would talk about a nice Irish boiled dinner with a good piece of brisket and that is how I learned what an oxymoron is. 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Follow link for HTML links http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/03/mocavocom-a-genealogy -search-engine.html >From Gene Eastmen's Genealogical Newsletter that serious researchers should subscribe to. Ray Marshall Too old to party in Minneapolis where it is the warmest St. Pat's Day in Many a Year Mocavo.com - a Genealogy Search Engine I suggest you remember this web site: Mocavo.com. I bet you are going to hear a lot about it in the next few weeks and months. In fact, I'd suggest you try it right now. I've been using the site for a while during its testing and have been very impressed. This thing actually works! Today, Mocavo.com went public and is now available to everyone. Mocavo.com is a genealogy search engine that is available to you at no charge. It searches hundreds of thousands of genealogy web sites, looking for the words that you specify. Web sites searched include thousands of genealogy message boards, society web pages, genealogy pages uploaded by individuals, state historical societies, family societies, Find-A-Grave, the Internet Archive (mostly scanned genealogy books from the Allen County Public Library), the Library of Congress, several sites containing scanned images of old photographs, and tens of thousands of distinct sites sites that contain various transcribed records of genealogical interest. Unlike other search engines, Mocavo.com limits its searches solely to genealogy sites. That makes a big difference to many of us who are searching for names that also are common words or corporate names. For instance, if I search for my own surname, Eastman, on most any other search engine, I receive hundreds of thousands of "hits" from photography sites and other sites that have nothing to do with genealogy. Performing a search for "Eastman" on Mocavo.com returns thousands of "hits," all of them from genealogy sites and with very few references to photography. Even the few that refer to the Eastman Kodak Company were references found on genealogy sites. A search for my own surname did return a "hit" for one page about the "Eastman Sea Rover airplane," something I had never heard of previously. Even that one "hit" was from a genealogy message board, providing information about the ancestry of the airplane's designer. Regardless of your search terms, Mocavo.com always returns information found on web sites that contain significant genealogy information. I suspect you will always have better luck searching for your own surnames of interest on Mocavo.com than on any other search engine. As an example of how Mocavo.com works, I'd suggest you first go to the site and perform a search for Amos Shaw who was married to Sarah Maxey. I found the couple by a search of: "amos shaw" "sarah maxey" (Include the quote marks.) That search found 41 "hits," but the one that was really productive was the fifth "hit" on the first page. That fifth "hit" may change up or down in the future, but you can always return to the correct page if you go to http://www.mocavo.com/visit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2F fg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr%26GRid%3D9525960. It is a FindAGrave result with an amazing photograph of a lady who was born in 1793 and died in 1868. You can find a photograph of her husband (who died in 1859) one click away. Those are old photos! It is rare to find a photograph of someone born in the 1700s. You will find it much more difficult to find old photographs like this using Google searches for genealogy! Now try a few searches on Mocavo.com with your own names of interest. Of course, searches on Mocavo.com are not limited to names. 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I am trying to find the birth record of my grandmother, Bertha or Bridgit Mara. Born 1880 to Timothy Cornelius Mara in County Kerry. Mother unknown. I found emigration records of them arriving in Boston in 1883 and settling in Holyoke, MA. I always knew my Grandmother as Bridgit, but early records show her as Bertha. I am trying to find Irish birth records to document my application for Irish citizenship. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful. Jack Clark [email protected]

Don't think the link to the card worked the first time so resending. http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2800539515286&source=jl999 Clare -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 669 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Hello All Lá le Phádraig shona daoibh. Happy St Patrick's Day and here's a fun card http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2800539515286&source=jl999 I have just finished watching the Dublin parade (on the TV) and it was really spectacular this year. The theme was based on a short story for children by Roddy Doyle specially written for today. The floats each illustrated a chapter from the book where a group of children tried to banish the Black Dog of Depression from Dublin city. Very relevant as it even had a scene showing the death of the Celtic Tiger. I suspect it may eventually make its way to utube so keep a look out for it. Regards Clare -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 669 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Mocavo.com Launches as World’s Largest Free Genealogy Search Engine The following announcement was written by Mocavo.com (you can also read my review of this new service athttp://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/03/mocavocom-a-genealogy-search-engine.html):Industry breakthrough provides instant search results for billions of names, dates and places Boulder, Colorado – March 16 2011 ––Mocavo.com ™ (www.mocavo.com) a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words - including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an important industry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family history research. Coupled with the speed and accuracy by which search results are produced, Mocavo.com represents a major technological breakthrough within the genealogy world.

Thank You Clare! I just love Jacquie Lawson Cards! Slainte, Liz On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Clare Tuohy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello All > > Lá le Phádraig shona daoibh. > > Happy St Patrick's Day > > and here's a fun card > > http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2800539515286&source=jl999 > > > I have just finished watching the Dublin parade (on the TV) and it was > really spectacular this year. The theme was based on a short story for > children by Roddy Doyle specially written for today. The floats each > illustrated a chapter from the book where a group of children tried to > banish the Black Dog of Depression from Dublin city. Very relevant as it > even had a scene showing the death of the Celtic Tiger. I suspect it may > eventually make its way to utube so keep a look out for it. > > Regards > Clare > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 669 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the > Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a > wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ~I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.~ John Burroughs

It worked OK using just the second half of the link. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred" <[email protected]> To: "'John Buckley'" <[email protected]>; "'fionadeb'" <[email protected]>; "'Kerry'" <[email protected]> Cc: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:47 AM Subject: RE: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day > Watching it in NSW Australia is no problem on broadband, where are you? > Fred > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Buckley > Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 8:48 PM > To: fionadeb; Kerry > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day > > Hi Fiona > > Clicking on the link brought me some intriguing shots of young dancers; > then > > my browser (IE) froze. again and again. I tried pasting the link into > Youtube and Google; both refused. Is there a fault in the link? > > John Buckley > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "fionadeb" <[email protected]> > To: "Kerry" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:29 AM > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day > > > Check out the brilliant flashmob of 'Riverdance' done in Sydney earlier to > celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2011 - it's a Youtube link. > > ***St Patricks Day 2011 Flashmob. Central Station, Sydney, > Australia.<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx > EB48jY3F8&h=22665> > * > >

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all from Dublin California. My Irish dancer daughter danced last Saturday at three celebrations. She has another at noon today and more next Saturday. All this way around the world and no one shall ever forget St. Patrick!

Hi Fiona Clicking on the link brought me some intriguing shots of young dancers; then my browser (IE) froze. again and again. I tried pasting the link into Youtube and Google; both refused. Is there a fault in the link? John Buckley ----- Original Message ----- From: "fionadeb" <[email protected]> To: "Kerry" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day Check out the brilliant flashmob of 'Riverdance' done in Sydney earlier to celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2011 - it's a Youtube link. ***St Patricks Day 2011 Flashmob. Central Station, Sydney, Australia.<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxEB48jY3F8&h=22665> *

Hi all This is a true Irish story Enjoy A TRUE IRISH GHOST STORY This story happened a while ago in Dublin , and even though it sounds like a Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John , desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door.... only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on. The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road ahead and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared out of nowhere through the window, and turned the wheel. John , paralysed with terror, watched as the hand came through the window, but never touched or harmed him. Shortly thereafter, John saw the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength; he jumped out of the car and ran to the pub. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he had just had. A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying... and wasn't drunk. Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and stormy night. They, like John , were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the ot her.... Look Paddy....there's that idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it!!!!' Trish

Jack's Soda Bread is fresh out of the oven and cooling. Can't think of Jack without smiling. A very St Patrick's Day to you and yours Margaret

Hi, I'm from Kerry but living in Galway so will probably go to parade there also. My mom went though a phase of corned beef, tounge etc but I'd say corned beef isn't eaten much in Ireland. Presume it was popular year's ago when fridges unavailable. Anyway compared to fresh beef not sure why you would bother although had spiced beef at Christmas once which was nice. Will probably have a curry today but as traditional dishes go I think bacon and cabbage is most popular. My ancestors used to run a 'pie' shop in Tralee. This consists of mutton pie submerged in a bowl of soup. I had it a few times as a child and it is delicious but never came across it anywhere else. Think those 'pie' shops were popular in early 1900's. As for soda bread the recipe I have seen is for what I would call current or curny bread but who cares what it's called.  White soda bread as I know it has no currents and prob had a bit more soda than recipe on list.  As for spuds think there's probably as much pasta as spuds eaten in Ireland these days but spuds still popular. Regards,Fintan ----- Original Message ---- From: fionadeb <[email protected]> To: Kerry <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 17 March, 2011 8:29:25 Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day Greetings from Co. Clare this St. PAtrick's day morning where the weather is calm and dry and looking good for the parades of the day. Mr. Google tells me it's 6 degreesC which I can't vouch for as I haven't been outside yet but I see no frost on the car outside the window! As to what to eat on St. PAtrick's Day - there is no particular food associated with St. Patrick here in Ireland. The day is not about food at all , but more about honouring St. PAtrick by going to Mass and then either taking part in, or going to watch, one of the many parades. I am thinking of heading up to Galway myself to the parade there as they do a spectacular job and for once, it's not raining or freezing cold! Corned beef - I have never ever had it in my 51 years on the planet. It's not something we eat here - I think of it as an American dish! What will I be eating? Not sure yet but it won't be Bacon and Cabbage! More likely something like Chicken satay.... now there's a traditional dish for you! Check out the brilliant flashmob of 'Riverdance' done in Sydney earlier to celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2011 - it's a Youtube link. ***St Patricks Day 2011 Flashmob. Central Station, Sydney, Australia.<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxEB48jY3F8&h=22665> * Beannachtaí na Feile Pádraig daoibh go léir! Fiona On 17 March 2011 01:32, Kerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting posting from Ray about what the Irish in Ireland actually > eat on St Patrick's Day. 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Greetings from Co. Clare this St. PAtrick's day morning where the weather is calm and dry and looking good for the parades of the day. Mr. Google tells me it's 6 degreesC which I can't vouch for as I haven't been outside yet but I see no frost on the car outside the window! As to what to eat on St. PAtrick's Day - there is no particular food associated with St. Patrick here in Ireland. The day is not about food at all , but more about honouring St. PAtrick by going to Mass and then either taking part in, or going to watch, one of the many parades. I am thinking of heading up to Galway myself to the parade there as they do a spectacular job and for once, it's not raining or freezing cold! Corned beef - I have never ever had it in my 51 years on the planet. It's not something we eat here - I think of it as an American dish! What will I be eating? Not sure yet but it won't be Bacon and Cabbage! More likely something like Chicken satay.... now there's a traditional dish for you! Check out the brilliant flashmob of 'Riverdance' done in Sydney earlier to celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2011 - it's a Youtube link. ***St Patricks Day 2011 Flashmob. Central Station, Sydney, Australia.<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxEB48jY3F8&h=22665> * Beannachtaí na Feile Pádraig daoibh go léir! Fiona On 17 March 2011 01:32, Kerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting posting from Ray about what the Irish in Ireland actually > eat on St Patrick's Day. So, I was wondering, since we do have some of you > in our group -- what will you be eating for the meal of the day? > > Blessings to all! > Kerry > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the > Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a > wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Looks like my previous email went astray. So to all the List. Have a wonderful St Patricks Day full of good cheer, whether bottled or not. Kind regards, Mary in Nth Qld Aus who is flooded in again...5th flood this year after 7 inches of rain.

And Happy St Patrick's Day to you from the other side of world where this St Patrick's Day is dawning at present look like not so good autumn day. But it could surprise me. So Happy St Patrick's Day to all member list Kind regards Maureen Waimate, New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy & Norma McAuliffe Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 5:12 a.m. To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; Limerick Message Board; County Cork Message Board Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St. Patrick's Day Thank you Ray: A beautiful Blessing. We wish it to all our friends and listers from Kerry, Cork, Limerick & Tipperary Counties for which we subscribe. Thanks also to you Michael in Killarney. There'll be a lot of "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Rals" sung here in Canada tomorrow. For those who didn't get the full URL- http://www.andiesisle.com/ThisBlessingsForYou.html God bless, Andy in Kitchener, ON. Canada researching - McAuliffe, Curtin, Fogarty, Callaghan, Costello, Jones plus MacKay, O'Henley & MacDonald in Scotland. _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I didn't realize that "spuds" was an Irish term for potato. I used to hear it a lot here, but my Mom always called them "praties." But I suppose if you eat that many of something, you'd have lotsl of names for it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Fintan Sheehan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:53 AM As for spuds think there's probably as much pasta as spuds eaten in Ireland these days but spuds still popular. Regards,Fintan

Hey, that stepdancing flashmob in Oz was great, Fiona. A good way to start my St. Patrick's Day. Well, I had a salami sandwich (w/swiss cheese, tomato, onions, relish & dijon mustard) for breakfast, to start my day off, Kerry. I watched the soda bread videos and it looks like something I could do so I shall try that -- next year. Or maybe next month. Why wait? Ray -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of fionadeb Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:31 AM To: Kerry Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Happy St Patrick's Day Greetings from Co. Clare this St. PAtrick's day morning where the weather is calm and dry and looking good for the parades of the day. Mr. Google tells me it's 6 degreesC which I can't vouch for as I haven't been outside yet but I see no frost on the car outside the window! As to what to eat on St. PAtrick's Day - there is no particular food associated with St. Patrick here in Ireland. The day is not about food at all , but more about honouring St. PAtrick by going to Mass and then either taking part in, or going to watch, one of the many parades. I am thinking of heading up to Galway myself to the parade there as they do a spectacular job and for once, it's not raining or freezing cold! Corned beef - I have never ever had it in my 51 years on the planet. It's not something we eat here - I think of it as an American dish! What will I be eating? Not sure yet but it won't be Bacon and Cabbage! More likely something like Chicken satay.... now there's a traditional dish for you! Check out the brilliant flashmob of 'Riverdance' done in Sydney earlier to celebrate St. Patrick's Day 2011 - it's a Youtube link. ***St Patricks Day 2011 Flashmob. Central Station, Sydney, Australia.<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx EB48jY3F8&h=22665> * Beannachtaí na Feile Pádraig daoibh go léir! Fiona On 17 March 2011 01:32, Kerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting posting from Ray about what the Irish in Ireland actually > eat on St Patrick's Day. So, I was wondering, since we do have some of you > in our group -- what will you be eating for the meal of the day? > > Blessings to all! > Kerry > _______________ > ---------------

Thanks, Ray, for sending out that Very Special Blessing, it was beautifully done! Happy St. Patrick's Day to you and to all the County Kerry listers! I'll be spending the day at home and getting out to enjoy what is supposed to be a warm (relatively), sunny, day for this area. Should be in the low 60's... ~Patsy

Very interesting posting from Ray about what the Irish in Ireland actually eat on St Patrick's Day. So, I was wondering, since we do have some of you in our group -- what will you be eating for the meal of the day? Blessings to all! Kerry