 Sex and Booze and Dancing Girls and Fiddlers and Giggling
Babies and Folk Stories and Singing and Shamrocks and All the Other Things that Made St.
Patrick's Day An Affair To Remember!
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Let's hear it for the luck 'n pluck o' the Irish!
"Faith 'n begorra!"
"If it t'aint me wile Irish rose!"
"Erin Go bragh!" ("Ireland Forever" to ye Yankees.)
Mix the jolly cheers with Irish jigs, fiddle paying,
laughter, folk singing, clowning, plenty of green bunting, shamrocks everywhere, and
overflowing steins of beer ... and only ting lacking in the St. Patrick's Day celebration
on Ryan's Hope was Ole St. Paddy himself!
For the cast, taping this episode on an ABC-TV sound stage
was as much fun as the real thing. In face, for all intents and purposes, it was
the real thing, from the brew to the young colleen who came over from the New York Irish
Pavilion and danced along with the regular cast members to the Gaelic airs provided by a
pretty fiddler name, appropriately enough, Kathleen Collins. And there was nary a threat
of getting bonked with a shillelagh.The celebration took place at Ryan's Bar, of course,
and the whole Ryan clan came out in force. Even Jack Fenelli, despite his
"questionable" background, was welcomed with Celtic sheer. An there wasn't a
single snake in sight, unless one counts the devious Delia!
After the episode was "in the can," every prance
home with visions of leprechauns dancing around in their heard and promised to take a
shamrock to bed with them.
What the heck? St. Patrick's Day only comes once a year!
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