Céilí Mor

As part of our celebrations for Paddy's Day, we met up with some of my friends and went to listen to Celtic music before heading to a pub for a couple pints. There was a pretty good crowd there and everyone seemed to be having a great time. These pictures I took. :) I didn't take very many, though, since it started to rain shortly after we arrived.

St. Patrick's Day

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we went to the parade. It was fun and I think there were more people there than last year. However, since we didn't have our friend J to wake us up, we got there later this year than last and didn't have quite as good of seats as last year. Therefore, John took the pictures for me. :) I think he did a good job.

This is a family show

There was one group in the Dublin St. Paddy's Day parade that bothered me a bit. It was a football club that was in the parade. In the front were guys kicking a football (soccer ball) around. In the back was a marching bad with football pitches on their heads and dressed like a football pitch. In the middle were scantily clad women. Now, I usually am not prudish, but this is a family affair and it was pretty cold out. These women barely had any clothes on. The girl next to me asked me lots of questions about why the ladies didn't have many clothes on, weren't they cold? She was concerned for their health/warmth as well as bothered that they were in public barely dressed...

Never too young for a guiness

After the parade, we went to Cafe En Sein for "a drink." This turned into 3-4 while listening to the music towards the back. While listening to the music, we noticed a family with a young child. The parents were drinking Guiness, the child had a bottle...

This picture was taken my friend J with her digital camera. It is blurry but you get the point.

Yet more pictures

Blogger and my internet connection were having issues last night so I couldn't post all of the pictures from the parade that I wanted to. So, here are yet more parade pictures.

More pictures of the parade

Since I took well over 100 pictures of my first St. Paddy's Day parade in Dublin (really anywhere), I have to post more of them. :)

Parade

As I think I mentioned, the parade had a carnival/Mardi Gras feel to it. Well, without the beads and all. It was a lot of fun. The little girl next to us liked the "dead stuff" the best. There was a lot of it in the beginning. I really didn't understand most of the parade because it seemed one should have some understanding of the real history of the day to understand the parade. It was still a lot of fun.

The bands

There were lots of bands at the parade. Some played Irish music, some played traditional American marching band music, some played accordions. The garda even had a marching band!