Gary & Ruth ColcombeBooks, Arts

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Triad of super Poems Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a short collection of poems (not recipes!) and all of our good wishes for the Next Year. We do so with a very small celebration for St Patrick's Day on March 17th. We bring you three poems that are typically Irish - they deal with Harps, Shamrocks and St. Patrick's Birthday! Then we head off to the pub for some of the black stuff! Full Show-notes, with all credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/patrick Running Order: Intro 0:40 The Legend of Ireland's Magic Harp by Author Unknown 01:52 The Four-Leaved Shamrock by Samuel Lover 3:42 St Patrick's Birthday by Samuel Lover  5:58 Out-takes 1:06:08 We hope you enjoy it! Gary & Ruthie x x x Released: 17th March 2010, 10m It's always great to hear from you! Email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com, or leave us a message using Speakpipe   The Legend of Ireland's Magic Harp This beautiful and magical poem, sadly of author unknown, makes a lovely start to our show. The original can be found on Old Irish Poems and Dizzy Boy. We did find a reference on liceogilvaniu.it that attributes it to (Carlo Calzolari, 3^B internaz.) - but we're not sure what that means.    The Four-Leaved Shamrock by Samuel Lover Samuel Lover (February 24, 1797 Dublin – July 6, 1868) was an Irish songwriter, novelist, as well as a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert. Samuel was born at number 60 Grafton Street and went to school at Samuel Whyte's at 79 Grafton Street, now home to Bewley's cafe. By 1830 he was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 D'Olier Street. Lover produced a number of Irish songs, of which several — including
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