631–639 5th Avenue
Better known as St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Saint Patrick’s Day 1913
Walking up Fifth Avenue.
On Saint Patrick’s Day
Attaway, Hi-Lo Amalgamated: have Thirsty Thurston, the strip’s resident alcoholic, dress as a leprechaun and offer greetings.
St. Patrick’s Day in the comics
In ones that I read anyway.
Two Williams
On this Saint Patrick’s Day, William Butler Yeats reminds us of the importance of social distancing as he holds a volume of William Blake’s poetry to his chest. Stand back, says the Irish William, and don’t you dare try to touch my book.
Whale, oil, beef, hooked
A quick lesson in how to do an Irish accent.
The Irish “grand”
Stan Carey looks at the Irish “grand.”
A text for the day
From Marianne Moore’s poem “Spenser’s Ireland.”
Another text for the day
“We Irish are not Know Nothings.”
A text for the day
From Finnegans Wake.
Words from James Joyce
Nations, like individuals, have their egos.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
From Finnegans Wake