tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3811205631112701330..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: And Today's Saint is . . . By Penny DolanMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-76597527990495119882015-03-17T17:10:35.602+00:002015-03-17T17:10:35.602+00:00Happy St Patrick's day, and let's raise a ...Happy St Patrick's day, and let's raise a glass to Lady Gregory, if not the saint!Lydia Sysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613876235125755967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-49496165636731224402015-03-17T11:59:54.202+00:002015-03-17T11:59:54.202+00:00Happy St Paddy's Day everyone! Our saintly Pad...Happy St Paddy's Day everyone! Our saintly Paddy studied down here in the south of France (5th century AD) on the small island of Saint-Honorat, one of the Iles des LĂ©rins, just offshore of the coast of Cannes. I can almost see his monastic cell from our front terrace. There will be a great deal of Guinness flowing about now along the Croisette and in Ma Nolan's pub. I am at my desk, of course. I hope he wasn't such an old stick-in-the-mud, Penny, and I hope you are feeling better.Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-75004340017857409692015-03-17T10:01:23.344+00:002015-03-17T10:01:23.344+00:00Well worth re-visiting - thanks for putting it up,...Well worth re-visiting - thanks for putting it up, and feel better soon!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-90553315093973812242012-03-17T20:23:16.435+00:002012-03-17T20:23:16.435+00:00I never knew St P was so curmudgeonly. People are ...I never knew St P was so curmudgeonly. People are awful when they're trying to ram their rekigion down your throat - i suspect the Druids would be just as bad if you had to meet one, Sue - but of course we are reading narratives written after the event, crafted to fit someone's agenda. I know he herded goats on a mountain in Northern Ireland, but I have forgotten which... It had a flat top, I think. Happy St P's day anyway! LeslieLeslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-46174534771408572592012-03-17T17:21:58.890+00:002012-03-17T17:21:58.890+00:00Thank you for the story, and Happy St Patrick'...Thank you for the story, and Happy St Patrick's Day!<br />One of my favourite saints is St Neot, patron saint of fish.Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-42666618410521954622012-03-17T12:10:32.945+00:002012-03-17T12:10:32.945+00:00Hmmm ... St Patrick I can take or leave - as you s...Hmmm ... St Patrick I can take or leave - as you show here, what a terrible meddler the man was. I do have a soft spot for St Francis: but St Guinefort - now there's a proper saint!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-3279210545361459812012-03-17T11:57:37.337+00:002012-03-17T11:57:37.337+00:00Great post. Happy St Patrick's Day. I love Ire...Great post. Happy St Patrick's Day. I love Ireland but haven't been back to the "Old Country" in years...maybe soon. Hope so.denise meredithhttp://www.demeredith.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-74400457693196908762012-03-17T09:47:33.973+00:002012-03-17T09:47:33.973+00:00Brilliant post. Love the Oisin story, which I hadn...Brilliant post. Love the Oisin story, which I hadn't heard before. Returning home only to find everyone gone, all your old haunts now in ruins & overgrown... what a deeply powerful image. Gives me a shiver!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-1821968649636404952012-03-17T09:29:02.348+00:002012-03-17T09:29:02.348+00:00I'm with Oisin! I wish the druids had been lef...I'm with Oisin! I wish the druids had been left alone. I can think of a few people today who'd make good sacrifices to the gods.<br />A great post, Penny - and I second your recommendation of The Book of Human Skin it's wonderful.<br />As is your own A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com