In keeping with the heritage passed down through my grandmother, Belle O'Brien, and her daughter, my mother, who airbrushed me to sleep with the gentle tones of Celtic lullaby, and all the Hanleys and O'Hanley's of County Roscommon, and the McGaheys of the Northern Counties, I must pause to speak of things Irish.
Foremost is Saint Patrick, whose life and contributions we celebrate on March 17. His death about 460 A.D. still leaves the world diminished, to paraphrase John Donne. Read more
Video: "The Deer's Cry", or St. Patrick's Breastplate
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