Starlighters Spring Semi-Formal March 15th 2014

A Traditional Irish Saying:

If you're enough lucky to be Irish...
You're lucky enough!

May the Lord keep you in his hand
And never close His fist too tight.

May you be in heaven a half hour
before the devil knows your dead.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

Do not resent growing old.
For many are denied the privilege.

Bless you and yours
As well as the cottage you live in.
May the roof overhead be well thatched
And those inside be well matched.

I complained I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

May your heart be warm and happy,
With the lilt of Irish laughter,
Every day in every way
And forever and ever after.

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

Get on your knees
and thank the Lord
you're on your feet.

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.

May the saddest day of your future
Be no worst than the happiest day of your past.

May you live to be a hundred years,
With one extra year to repent!

A Traditional Irish Saying:

May the leprechauns be near you,
To spread luck along your way.
And may all the Irish angels,
Smile upon you on St. Patrick's Day.

May the roof above us never fall in.
And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.

There are only three kinds of Irish men who can't understand women— young men, old men, and men of middle age.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

If you lie down with dogs, you'll rise up with fleas.

A Turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Here's to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend.
The first beautiful, the second full, the last ever faithful.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

These things I warmly wish to you-
Someone to love
Some work to do
A bit o' sun
A bit o' cheer
And a guardian angel always near.

Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

These things I warmly wish to you-
Someone to love
Some work to do
A bit o' sun
A bit o' cheer
And a guardian angel always near.

Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last.

A Traditional Irish Saying:

Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
Who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland,
Here's a toasting to his health.
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see all those snakes again.

A Random Irish Tune For You...

Irish traditional music includes many kinds of songs, including drinking songs, ballads and laments, sung unaccompanied or with accompaniment by a variety of instruments. Traditional dance music includes reels (4/4), hornpipes and jigs (the common double jig is in 6/8 time).

The polka arrived at the start of the nineteenth century, spread by itinerant dancing masters and mercenary soldiers, returning from Europe.

Set dancing may have arrived in the eighteenth century.

Later imported dance-signatures include the mazurka and the highlands (a sort of Irished version of the Scottish strathspey).

In the nineteenth century folk instruments would have included the flute the fiddle and the uilleann pipes.