All across Ireland we saw banners and signs for Arthur's Day - a celebration of the man who founded Guinness in 1759. Apparently for the 250th anniversary, a Guinness marketing person came up with the brilliant idea to celebrate Arthur for a day. On that day, the festivities officially began at 1 minute to 6, which of course is 1759 on the 24 hour clock. It was so successful that first year, that it has become an annual event, with 2013 being the 4th Arthur's Day celebration. And we just happened to be in one of the best pubs in Ireland for the occasion - Dick Mack's in Dingle!
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| Dick Mack's - Once a Haberdashery and now a damn good pub! |
We arrived at Dick Macs at about 1730 with enough time to get a few sips of Guinness into us after our adventurous day around the peninsula. At about 1755, a bus load of people descended upon the pub, got a Guinness and posed for the 1759 photo - another tradition - all the photos from pubs across Ireland are posted on some Guinness web page somewhere.
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1759 - To Arthur!
The official photographer is on a ladder in the corner. Our yet-to-meet friend happened to catch us on the left side. |
Then the music started up in the tent outside. We had met the band "Promise" inside and had a great time listening to them. They played a variety of good dance tunes. We took a few of our own photos but outside we met, Micki, a woman from California who had been taking photos all night and passed me her email address. She very kindly later emailed me a bunch of photos from that evening, so the photos I'm sharing here are hers.
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| Nancy & I and another woman, not our photographer friend, on stage singing something |
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| With a very nice, friendly friend of the bands' - a nurse moving to Australia the next week |
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| Mac, the nurse, me, Don |
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Nancy & Mac, Don & I
Others were dancing too - not just us fools! |
It was so fun to have happened to be in Ireland for this revered event. To Arthur! Solange! (sp?)
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