#ireland day

[ducklooney]

Happy Patrick's Day!

Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is celebrated on March 17 and is the Day of Ireland and Irish Culture. Anyway, here are pictures from the Duckverse of our favorite green-suited, Irish-related characters and leprechauns and four-leaf clovers. May all the luck follow you!

Happy Ireland Day everyone! Feel free to like and reblog this if you're a fan of these characters in green!

#happy st patricks day #ireland day #holidays #patrick's day #donald duck #duckverse #ducktales #scrooge mcduck #ducktales 1987 #jose carioca #quack pack #gladstone gander #darkwing duck #three caballeros #ze carioca #José Carioca #bushroot #launchpad mcquack #leprechauns #st patricks day #zico and zeca #zico and zeca carioca #duck comics #louie duck #dr reginald bushroot #huey dewey and louie #webby vanderquack #other characters #disney birds #disney ducks

[violottie]

TODAY: Palestinian and Irish-American activists marched for Gaza in Rochester, NY on St. Patrick’s Day. Participants proudly displayed banners with Palestinian and Irish flags that read, “Occupation is a crime from Ireland to Palestine.” from BreakThrough News, 17/Mar/2024:

#st patricks day #ireland #palestine #i stand with palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #rafah #save rafah #irish solidarity with palestine #new york #protest

[brendanjharkin]

Shamrocks for Palestine Ireland marches once again in solidarity with Palestine. As Irish politicians from the largest political parties travel to the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Joe Biden, protesters from across Northern Ireland gathered to march to the US Consulate in Belfast, calling for a White House boycott and an immediate ceasefire. When a Councillor from Sinn Féin took the stage she was subjected to intense booing from the crowd throughout her speech for the party's decision to go to the White House with the right wing political parties.

#photography #northern ireland #ireland #palestine #gaza #free palestine #Apologies for the random jump to black and white #the rain fogged the hell out of my camera so this was the only way to salvage those shots #st. patricks day #politics

[defleftist]

The only appropriate way to spend St. Patrick’s Day is to continue to stand up against the occupation and oppression of all people around the world. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #ireland #irish famine #Irish genocide #palestine #palestinian genocide #free gaza #gaza #gaza genocide #anti colonialism #anti colonization #genocide #st patricks day #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights #oppression #end occupation #israel is a terrorist state #israeli apartheid

[kropotkindersurprise]

#international women's day #international working women's day #posters #propaganda #feminism #women #women's rights #communism #pflp #palestine #eritrea #ireland #germany #revolution #eplf #ira #guerrilla #march 8th #march 8 #8 de marzo

[humanoidhistory]

Ireland, observed by NASA's Aqua satellite on October 11, 2010.

#ireland #earth #st. patricks day #irish #island

[silvaris]

Killiney Hill, Ireland by Martina Scanu

#woodland #forest #happy Saint Patrick's day #Ireland #Irish woods #my upload #silvaris #woods

[dduane]

A diagram of the Irish seasons and months in the traditional/Celtic, astronomical, and meteorological modes, with the standard calendar months around the edges: courtesy of our one-county-over neighbor, @CarlowWeather, over on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

#Ireland #months #seasons #February 1 #is the first day of spring for some here #not to mention #St. Brigid's Day #and Monday is a shiny new bank holiday

[petermorwood]

Food on St Patrick's Day (in the USA)...

...is usually Corned Beef & Cabbage, which is the Irish-American version of the original Irish boiled bacon & cabbage, but while the celebratory Irishness is still going strong, try something a bit more authentic.

A nice warm coddle. Not cuddle, coddle, though just as comforting in its own way. (Some sources suggest it's a hangover cure, not that such a thing would ever be necessary at this time of year, oh dear me no.)

Coddle is a stew using potatoes, onions, bacon, sausages, stout-if-desired / stock-if-not, pepper, sage, thyme and Time.

You'll often see it called "Dublin Coddle", but my Mum made Lisburn Coddle lots of times, I've made West Wicklow Coddle more than once, and on one occasion in a Belgian holiday apartment I made Brugsekoddel, which is an OK spelling for something that doesn't exist in any cookbook.

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I do remember one amendment I made to Mum's recipe, which met with slight resistance at the time and great appreciation thereafter.

Her coddle was originally cooked on the stove-top, not in the oven, and nothing was pre-cooked. Potatoes were quartered, onions were sliced, bacon was cut into chunks and then everything went into the big iron casserole, then onto the slow back ring, and there it simmered Until Done.

However, the bacon was thick-cut back rashers, and the sausages were pork chipolatas.

Raw, they looked like this:

...and the bacon looked like this:

Cooked in the way Mum initially did, they looked pretty much the same afterwards. The sausages didn't change colour. Nor did the bacon.

While everything tasted fine, the meat parts always looked - to me, anyway - somewhat ... less than appealing. "Surgical appliance pink" is the kindest way to put it, and that's all I'm saying. This is apparently "white coddle" and Dubs can get quite defensive about This Is The Way It SHOULD Look.

I'm not a Dub, so I persuaded Mum to fry both the bacon and sausages first, just enough to get a bit of brown on, and wow! Improvement! I remember my Dad nodding in approval but - because he was Wise - not saying anything aloud until Mum gave it the green light as well.

Doing the coddle in the oven, first with lid on then with lid off, came later and met with equal approval. So did using only half of the onion raw and frying the other half lightly golden in the bacon fat.

Nobody quoted from a movie that wouldn't be made for another decade, but there was a definite feeling of...

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There are coddle recipes all over the Net: I've made sure that these are from Ireland to avoid the corned-beef-not-boiled-bacon "adjustment" versions which are definitely out there. I've already seen one with Bratwurst. Just wait, it'll be chorizo next.

Oh, hell's teeth, I was right. And from RTE...

Returning to relative normality, here's Donal Skehan's white coddle and his browned coddle with barley (I'm going to try that one).

Here's Dairina Allen's Frenchified with US measurements version. (I feel considerably less heretical now.)

And finally (OK, not Irish, but it references a couple of the previous ones and is a VERY comprehensive write-up, so gets a pass) Felicity Cloake's Perfect Dublin Coddle (perfect according to who, exactly...?) in The Guardian.

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Returning to the beginning, and how boiled bacon became corned beef (a question which prompted @dduane to start an entire website...!)

The traditional Irish meat animal for those who could afford it was the pig, but when Irish immigrants (even before the Great Famine) arrived in the USA, they often lived in the same urban districts as Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

For fairly obvious reasons pork, bacon and other piggy products were unavailable in those districts, but salt beef was right there and far cheaper than any meat Irish immigrants had ever seen before.

Insist on tradition or eat what was easy to find? There'd have been contest - and do I sometimes wonder a bit if sauerkraut ever came close to replacing cabbage for the same reason.

The pre-Famine Irish palate liked sour tastes: a German (?) visitor to Ireland in the mid-1600s wrote about about what were called "the best-favoured peasantry in Europe", and mentioned that they had "seventy-several sour milks and creams*, and the sourer they be, the better they like them."

* Yogurt? Kefir? Skyr? Gosh...

Corned beef and Kraut as the immigrants' celebratory "Irish" meal for St Patrick's Day? Maybe, maybe not.

Time for "Immigrant Song" (with kittens).

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Corned beef got its name from the size of the salt grains with which the beef was prepared. They were usually bigger than kosher salt, like pinhead oats or even as large as grains of wheat, and their name derived originally from "corned (gun)powder", the large coarse grains used in cannon.

BTW, "corn" has been a generic English term for "grain" for centuries, and "but Europe didn't have corn" is an American mistake assuming the word refers to sweetcorn / maize, which it doesn't.

Lindsey Davis, author of the "Falco" series, had a couple of rants about it and other US-requested "corrections". As she points out, mistakes need corrected but "corn" is not a mistake, just a difference in vocabulary.

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In Ancient and Medieval Ireland pig would have included wild boar, the hunting of which was a suitable pastime for warriors and heroes, because Mr Boar took a very dim view of the whole proceeding and wasn't shy about showing it (see "wild boar" in my tags and learn more).

Cattle were for milk, butter, cream and little cattle; also wealth, status, and heroic displays in their theft, defence or recovery. It's no accident that THE great Irish epic is "The Cattle-Raid of Cooley" / Táin Bó Cúailnge (tawn / toyn boh cool-nyah).

Killing a cow for meat was ostentation on a level of lighting cigars with 100-, or even 500-, currency-unit notes. Once it had been cooked and eaten there'd be no more milk, butter, cream or little cattle from that source, so eating beef was showing off And Then Some.

Also, loaning a prize bull to run with someone else's heifers was a sign of great friendship or alliance, while refusing it might be an excuse for enmity or even war. IMO that's what Maeve of Connaught intended all along, picking undiplomatic envoys who would get drunk and shoot their mouths off so the loan was refused and she, insulted, would have an excuse to...

But I digress, as usual. Or again. Or still... :->

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For the most part, "pig" mean "domestic porker", and in later periods right up to the Famine, these animals were seldom eaten.

Instead, known as "the gentleman who pays the rent", the family pig ate kitchen scraps and rooted about for other foods, none of which the tenant had to grow or buy for them. These fattened pigs would go to market twice a year, and the money from their sale would literally pay that half-year's rent.

For wealthier (less poor?) farmers, pigs had another advantage. Calves arrived singly, lambs might be a pair, but piglets popped out by the dozen. A sow with (some of) her farrow was even commemorated on the old ha'penny coin...

What with bulls, chickens, hares, horses, hounds, pigs, salmon and stags, the pre-decimal Irish coinage is a good inspiration for some sort of fantasy currency.

But that's another post, for another day.

#food and drink #St Patrick's Day #Irish cuisine #Dublin coddle #corned beef or boiled bacon #pigs and cattle in Ireland #The Cattle Raid of Cooley #Youtube

[fallensapphires]

Nature: Clovers and Shamrocks

May your blessings outnumber

The shamrocks that grow,

And may trouble avoid you

Wherever you go.

#four leaf clover #clover #shamrock #shamrocks #irish #ireland #saint patricks day #st patricks day #st. patricks day #saint patrick's day #Saint Patrick's #st paddys day #st paddy's day #Saint Paddy's Day #St. Paddy's #St. Paddy's day #Irish aesthetic #Irish moodboard #Nature #Plants #plant aesthetic #plant moodboard #nature aesthetic #nature moodboard #moodboard #aesthetic #green clover #green aesthetic #100 notes

[andallshallbewell]

#Irish proverb #quote #inspiration #Ireland #st patricks day

[jo-the-bass-stealer]

some weekend

#ides of march #the ides of march #st patricks day #st paddys day #ireland

[amtrak-official]

How do you feel about British people?

Ummmm, well you see, uhh, skip

#asks #they are fine I just really fucking hate the tories #also I want a united ireland and independent scotland but thats for another day

[deltawebsistem]

Ireland from Space

#ireland #astronomy #space #astrophotography #universe #nasa #astro #galaxy #astronout #galaxies #astro notes #irish #astro observations #astro community #nasa photos #solar system #nasa picture of the day #planets #earth #planet earth #space station

[vyorei]

We've been furious here on the island regarding almost all the politicians leaving to pander to a genocidal administration.

I humbly request that when you see those fools shaming us abroad to remember that they have expressly ignored the will of the people. We marched in our hundreds of thousands for weeks and still they ignore our every request.

Ireland stands with Palestine always, those stooges from the Dáil do not represent us and will be removed in the upcoming General Election. They needed their last free holiday on the taxpayer given they'll never have power again.

If you are to engage in the festivities this weekend I request you utilise the black shamrock, and not the green. That is what we're doing here.

Saoirse don Phalaistín. 🇵🇸✊🇮🇪

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Ireland #St Patrick's Day #SDLP #Claire Hanna #USA #Paddy's Day #It's Paddy and not Patty by the way. It's never been Patty.

[kawaiibabeshop]

🌸 Kawaii Shop 🌸

#st patricks day #st paddys day #st pattys day #ireland #irish #sanrio #sanriocore #sanrio blog #sanrio aesthetic #my melody #kuromi #stationary #kawaii #kawaiicore #kawaii blog #kawaii aesthetic #cutecore #cute blog #cute aesthe