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TRAVELS WITH ST PATRICK: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO Travels with St Patrick This weekend the world turns green as Irish expats around the globe - and anyone else out for a good time - celebrate St Patrick's Day. But why has this saint inspired such devotion? AOIFE O'RIORDAIN explores the legends surrounding him
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WAS ST PATRICK IRISH?
No, probably Scottish. Ireland's patron saint is widely attributed
with having brought Christianity to the largely pagan island in the
5th century. However, much about his life is shrouded in speculation,
including his birthplace. Many scholars believe the saint was born,
not in Ireland, but in Scotland in a village called Bannavem
Taberniae around AD389. There is no record of a village of this name
existing in Roman Britain, but other theories suggest that he could
have come from Strathclyde or Kilpatrick near Dumbarton. Succat (as
he was called then) was the son of a ...
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Interviews: Mark Dunn discusses his new book, "Zounds: A Browsers Dictionary of Interjections"
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...co-host: The interjections in Mark Dunn's dictionary...Well, the Scottish interjection gardyloo, which in...the way. MONTAGNE: Interjections also creep into popular...this truckload of interjections. And, of course...trying to use every interjection in the English lexicon...
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Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns.(Book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns...Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections displays a corpulence befitting its subject matter. Taking...
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Interjections, tears in seamen's hearing
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...spokesman Artur Udovenko, to represent his group. Language difficulties and the use of a translator were compounded by interjections in Russian from the public gallery. At one stage the interpreter directed a volley of Russian at some of the seamen sitting...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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DIVINE INTERJECTION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-21-1994 DIVINE INTERJECTION Date: 09-21-1994, Wednesday Section: Passaic Morris Community Section Edition: 2 Star P Column: LETTERS Editor, The Record...
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Letter to Editor - McCrae sorry for interjection
Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun
; ...breaking the rules. Coun. Campbell then proceeded with her presentation. I have respect for Coun. Campbell and regret my interjection was received negatively by those in attendance at the meeting. I know Coun. Campbell well enough to believe she will forgive...
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Vrakas opposes using ex-nursing home for sex offenders; Panel balks at county executive's interjection before any recommendations have even been made
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...opposition from neighbors of the former nursing home. Some members of the task force objected to the county executive's interjection, with one member then leaving the meeting early. "It's just garbage," said Hartland Police Chief Robert Rosch, who...
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Two things that hold Ebenezer at bay; it isn't the choir singing 'Winter Wonderland' that does it for me. It isn't even children piping 'Rudolph' with funny interjections.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...part harmony that does it. It isn't the enchanting schoolchildren piping "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with funny interjections. I have to admit that a gathering of unbelievably angelic infants singing in approximate unison and merry truthfulness...
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Interjections I-IV: Thoreau in South America.
Magazine article from: Hollins Critic
; Contents not available due to copyright restrictions.
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Interjections unwelcome.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance
; Dear Editor, I see no matter the subject, individuals still have to interject Liberalism and their own narrow-minded views, even a columnist for Risk & Insurance[R]. There was absolutely no reason to characterize a "cleavage-heavy bimbo" as an "improvement" over former FEMA Director Michael
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Interjection of rare works makes for fanciful evening
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; Grant Park Orchestra At first glance, most conductors have repertoires of wide-ranging scope. They are conducting Mozart one night and Mahler the next. Generalists who are comfortable with Beethoven and Bernstein seem to be the norm. But some conductors also develop personal affinities, finding
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