Category: Irish Tidbits

March 17, 2020

Herb

Happy St Patrick’s Day

I have spent a little bit of time helping get our church website ready for the next couple of weeks. Bishop and Pastor are trying to not only be careful…

Genealogy, Irish Tidbits, My Family, My Life2 Comments

March 17, 2005

Herb

No Irish Need Apply

Well, happy Saint Patrick's Day to you. On my mother's side there is a lot o' Irish as on my father's side is mostly German. Having been born in this…

Irish Tidbits, My Family, Ravings, Traditions1 Comment

"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.'' Hamilton Fed Paper #29