Well, St. Patrick’s Week is off and running in fine form, and will finish with a flurry at the West End Hooley! There will be music and good food and libation all over the West End, including Hawley’s Grove, of course. Check the event page on Facebook for the whole schedule, or go to westendhooley.com. We will have the Working Man String Band playing Celtic and Celtic-ish tunes from 4-6.
“The One”
Green, blue, yellow and red –
God is down in the swamps and marshes
Sensational as April and almost incred-
ible the flowering of our catharsis.
A humble scene in a backward place
Where no one important ever looked
The raving flowers looked up in the face
Of the One and the Endless, the Mind that has baulked
The profoundest of mortals. A primrose, a violet,
A violent wild iris – but mostly anonymous performers
Yet an important occasion as the Muse at her toilet
Prepared to inform the local farmers
That beautiful, beautiful, beautiful God
Was breathing His love by a cut-away bog.
–Patrick Kavanagh
Food Specials (Saturday till gone!)
Lamb and Barley Stew w/soda bread (and McB’s tasty lamb!)–$10
Farls w/Black Sausage–$7
Tayto Sandwiches (Irish potato chips on white bread with butter)–$5
Drink Specials:
Green Tea shots – $3.50
Jameson, Powers, Paddy’s, Shankey’s Whip shots – $4
Smithwick’s, Hamburg Irish Red, CBW Blizzard Kit pints – $4
Dollar off Magner’s Irish Cider & top shelf Irish Whiskey