National Holiday in Ireland but not in the USA. However, Americans celebrate anyway. We pretend we are Irish for a day. My name is Shea or Shay with or without O due to the sound of my Chinese last name Shieh or Xie in official Pin Yin system of romanization. However,my last name would be Xie in Wu or Shanghai dialect.
Leorechauns are regarded to be stingy or greedy causing global financial crisis.(sic)
Leprechauns love music and can remember tunes but not the tones in Mandarin Chinese unless he/she is a Chinese-Irish or Irish-Chinese? Who knows such being?
Ireland's flag is known with tricolor as the symbols of the green for Catholic color and orange for Protestant shade but the middle is white for peace.
"Erin go bragh!" i.e. Ireland forever!" "Forever" would mean "ad infinitum per omnia secular seculum." Amen!
The Blarney Stone: Kiss the stone to be smart. Student would listen to a dynamic teacher since 1945 to date...
I still remember a student from Ireland came to the University of San Francisco and we lived in the barracks in 1947-48. He is " Mac" as a common Irish name.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on March 16, 2009 in Maryland but it is March 17th in Shanghai with thoughts of my native city since 1926.
The above random write-up is dedicated to all real or fake Irish to have Irish humor as I learned from my Irish friends at Georgetown University,1948-1950.
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