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I'm currently looking for a direct flight from Notre Dame to Carlingford... time to go home!

I believe, I believe. Beautiful area, but never saw a leprechaun. Must go back again.

God love the Irish.

(...more) "Aon focal dá, fucit tú, fucal ella”... An’ I not knowing no fucal a’tall... She'd go "Ayne fucal dawr, fucal two, focal eile”... An’ I not knowin’ no focal a’tall! >> She taught us about the history, the Battle of the Boyne... And how to play a game with the chestnut and the twine...She’d say... *you must speak this bit* - “Open up your catechisms, learn all that information.. If you don't get it in your big thick head, you won't get your Conformation”... >> "Ayne fucal dawr, fucal too, fucal ella” .. An’ I not knowing no fucal a’tall! .. She'd go "Ayne fucal dawr, fucal two, fucal ella”... An’ I not knowing no focal at all! >> Well, the days we spent going to school, were the best years of our life.. Tho' at the time we thought they were full of trouble and strife... Now when I'm home on holiday, I'd pass the old school gate... I think of the time I spent in there, them times were surely great!” >>> (Sheeeeeee'd go ....) "Ayne fucal dá, fucit too, fucal ella” .. An’ I not knowing no fucal a’tall... She'd go.. "Aon focal dá, fucal two, focal eile”... An’ I not knowing no focal a’ taaaaaawll!” ....... PS - Google ‘Aon focal eile’ by me pal Richie on “utubs” (sorry about de mis-pelling, use ‘e’ instead of ‘s’) for proper music, beat, presentayshun and danceable craic.

(Hafta split this a bit ... Words of great songs are too much for ICentral’s eejit computer to absorb...) The whole shebang song is dis.... “When I was just a lad I used to go to school...I'd sit down there in the seat, feeling like a fool... The teacher taught us everything, everything we know... She had a great big lump of a stick that was bent into a bow! .. CHORUS >> (She'd go)... "Ayne fucal dawr, focal too, fucal ella”.. An’ I not knowing no fucal at all!... She'd go "Ayne fucal dawr, fucal two, focal eile”... An’ I not knowin’ no focal atall >> She taught us how to say all our A.B.C. (hey!) .. She showed us how to make little men out of plastaseen... She taught us how to say our prayers (whey!), she taught us right from wrong (Yee-hah!) ..The only thing about it, we didn't go to school too long - *(‘cos.... sheeeee’d gohhhhh...) (More...)

(...more from below)Now ÉISTAIGHÍ areesh!-You must practice this song for yr parades, pubs, 5th Avenue between 80th and 81st streets, all of Hoboken streets and in Sean’ Hai on St. Patrick’s Day... Me oul’ pal, Rich E. Kavana yoosta give the hole shebang song like dis... (Oh, yes there’s more... much more...! for yr delight)

Pronumpsiations in Irish are very easy to learn, really. Shure ta be shure, sometimes it’s better to teach languages in song, so here goes for ‘accentuated’ letters and pronunciations in the Irish language... Ah be shayshures!Does anyone listen dese days??? Listen up a’wrongana... listen up areesh!! (Shure dey don’t post posts anymoor like dey yoos too... A’shure let’s try again...) Éist!! ... ÉISTAIGHÍ - all together now.... Arís, areesh...! #Ah-hayne fucal may, a hayne fucal too, a h-aon focal ella, knee beg a fucal a’tall a’m...” Ok? Ok now? Got it? Areesh, now a bookalee agus a colleenee, le kayla - a kardje guh’ lair... on will aon focal eile a’give? ... It’s very easy really... In English you’d say as our Irish teacher would say... She'd go an’ teach us "Aon fucal dawr, fucal two, fucal eile, An’ I not knowing no focal at all” (More...)

antoman..I remember that story in school years ago..lol

Correction - instead of "use the letters as you need to"...I meant to say, "then re-open up and use that .doc to cut any of the accentuated letters from and paste into yr posts..."

Irish fada letters>>> Caps - Á É Í Ó Ú >>> Small - á é í ó ú >>> Cut and paste them into a Word.doc, save them on yr 'puter as, say, called "Irish fadas.doc" and you can cut and paste anytime you need in posts on ICentral. :-)

BTW - for those who want to use Irish fadas (accentuated letters), here's what to do... all free, courtesy of jacers for yr St. Patk's Day posts... Ready? What to do is open up MS Word, cut and paste the following vowel letters at the end of this into it, save it as a Word doc, call it "Irish Fadas.doc" on yr 'puter - then use the letters as you need to. >>>> á é í ó ú - and for CAPs - Á É Í Ó Ú

No no no - Níl aon, not one, leprechán left in Ireland. On Dublin's Howth head one showery evening, me and two Irish-Americans watched a perfectly formed arched rainbow fall into the see just below us, all the way down the Irish coast from Carlingford. It was huge and beautiful but there was no crock of gold, no leprechán at the end of it. Ochón ó!

Too bad. Ii used to love Leprechaun meat grilled.

Theres thousand of the wee fellas in this country, who ever said theres only 236 of them is talking through his ass. The fairy Glen in Newry is packed with them manys a time I delt with them buying from them some of the tiny furniture they make, If anyone dosent believe me they can call at the house anyday and have a look at some of the bits i bought. Manys a day I was out painting pictures and saw loadsa them in the fields.Type into Google "The lament of the leprechauns" and you will see a few there.

the curran Leprechauns can be found at gallery 3 curransart.com, look to the trees above the famine victims