Posts Tagged ‘St. Patrick’s Day’

Get Batty with St. Patty

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Downtown Phoenix can satisfy your urge to dance a jig this St. Patrick’s Day, with numerous wicked awesome parties serving up mugs of green beer and mounds of corned beef and cabbage.

SeamusSeamus McCaffrey’s & The Turf Irish Pubs

Of course you can count on these sister pubs to host a proper St. Patrick’s Day shindig. Starting at 2 p.m., and for just a $5 cover that gets you into both Seamus and Turf, revelers can enjoy live music from Kilted Spirit, The Waters, Dan McGuinness, and Tartanic. Both kitchens will be featuring traditional Irish dishes for $9 per plate, plus Jameson, Bushmill’s, and Tullamore Dew promotions throughout the day. Ollie the Trolley will be giving free rides back and forth so, pretty please, leave your cars at home. #safetyfirst

The Rose & Crown

Armed with the remedy to cure what “ales” ya, The Rose & Crown at Heritage & Science Park will be hosting a 10,000-square-foot beer garden with FREE admission. You can’t beat that deal with a blackthorn shillelagh!

CityScape

Come to Patriot’s Square for a day of food, fun, music and drink. Doors open at 4 p.m. and FREE tickets to this St. Patrick’s Day party are available at any CityScape retailer or restaurant.

Bands scheduled to appear: Irish House Music 4:00 p.m.;  Emerald Rising 5 p.m.; Aengus Og 7:30 p.m. George Killian’s Irish Red beer will be flowing and Tamlin’s Corned Beef & Cabbage Company will be serving up Ireland’s classic dish.

So, until Thursday:

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer—and another one!

Write Your Best Downtown Limerick

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Want a chance to win one (1) of two (2) $25 gift cards to Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in the heart of Downtown? Just submit your very best Downtown-inspired (and clean) limerick. We’ll take entries all the way up until 2 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day (3/17) and announce a winner at 3 p.m. (Just in time for the winners to start their holiday with a pint or two of Guiness and some Shepherd’s Pie).

For the layperson, a standard limerick is a five-line poem (usually funny, or at least attempting to be) where Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and contain 7-10 syllables and Lines 3 and 4 also rhyme but are a tad shorter in length, usually 5-6 syllables.

Here’s an example thrown together a few minutes ago:

St-Patrick-s-DayThere once was a man from Phoenix

Who couldn’t ever find his own Kleenex

His wife called him a louse

When he sneezed in her blouse

In the garbage sits the garment in a helix

Lame? You betcha, but you get the idea.

May the luck of the Irish be with you as you craft your  Downtown limerick and please do keep them clean or run the risk of being disqualified.

You may also choose to submit your limerick on the Fans of Downtown Facebook page.