Saint Patrick’s Day, Feast of Saint Patrick, March 17th. MacNamaras Band Bing Crosby (1945. St Patricks Day favourite) youtube/watch?v=9mPtOsvm7j8 Released on Decca Records in early 1946, the song became a Top Ten hit for Bing Crosby and is often sung on St. Patricks Day. The tale is based on an actual band, the St Marys Fife and Drum Band, formed in Limerick in 1885. In the late 19th century the band featured four brothers, Patrick, John, Michael and Thomas MacNamara, and became famous for playing shows all across Ireland. In the early 20th century Patrick and Thomas emigrated to the United States and formed The MacNamaras Band with Patrick ‘Patsy Salmon, another Limerick emigre. MacNamaras Band was written by the songwriting team of Shamus OConnor and John J. Stamford with lyrics by The Three Jesters. If Youre Irish Come Into The Parlour Willie Brady (1960s) youtube/watch?v=THq4nC-Lo54 Written by Dublin born Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) and Frank Miller in 1920. Glenville toured the USA in the 1920s as one of The Six Brothers Luck, worked with Fred Karno’s Company and later with the Shubert Organisation in New York. Willie Brady (1930–1969) was an Irish ballad and country singer and recording artist, popular in Ireland and the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. With his Gibson guitar and picking style, he revolutionised Irish guitar playing. His records were released on the Avoca label, which operated out of New York, issuing recordings made in Ireland. Blarney Stone bar and grill, near West 42nd Street, New York City. Summer 2001. Dimly lit, very smoky, and fragrantly smelling of beer, Blarney Stones used to be all over New York City, hideaways for working men who wanted to drink, watch a baseball or football game and have a corned beef sandwich or some traditional Irish food. They were the brainchild of Irish immigrant Daniel Flanagan, whose first Blarney Stone opened on Third Avenue and 44th Street in 1952. This one, near 42nd Street, offered the legendary Irish Vodka, served from a syphon under the bar and verging on lethal strength, but it was always cheap and beers never reached above $3. It is now long gone, and of Manhattan’s original thirty four Blarney Stones, only about four remain.
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