What Did You Do for St. Patrick's Day?

Tell us your St. Patrick's Day stories, especially if you spent it in the Bronx.
I just came home from An Beal Bocht in Riverdale, where Mary Courtney and John Redmond were holding court, playing some awesome Irish jigs and reels and other tunes. I first saw Mary Courtney play around 1992 at the Village Pub on Bainbridge Avenue (later became DOD's) when there were probably 25 Irish bars on Bainbridge Ave./204th St. That whole scene moved up to McLean Avenue in Woodlawn on the Bronx/Yonkers border. Alex Kratz of the Norwood News looked back on the Irish influence in Norwood and Bedford Park in this article from a couple of years ago.
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Let us know how you spent it ...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

While many of our Irish brothers and sisters are at either the Manhattan or Bronx St. Patrick's Day parades, here's our story from last year about the history of Irish immigrants here in the northwest Bronx.

[Pictured above is Mickey Burke, former owner of an Irish gift shop called Keltic Connection, holding up a shirt he used to sell that denotes all 18 Irish pubs located on the Bainbridge/204th Street corridor, formerly known as Little Belfast.]