Andrew Morrison reviews the Irish Heather for the Westender

Angela Murrills hunts down sources for tasty Irish fare around the city in the Georgia Straight



St PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION - ELSEWHERE


The British are putting Guinness in their Marmite

Other people are putting Guinness in their chocolate brownies.

While the latest stats say that the Irish themselves are knocking back less Guinness and quaffing more wine.

In San Francisco they are celebrating with authentic inauthentic Irish Coffees from the Buena Vista Cafe.

In the former Irish immigrant neighbourhoods of Brooklyn (did you ever read A Tree Grows in ...) they are just plain going over the top. (We hear one street will be closed to the traffic and carpeted with sod because contrary to popular opinion, St Patrick is not the patron saint of concussions.)

Someone is telling the truth about corned beef. (If you want to believe it.)

And everyone else is on the hunt across America for the elusive McDonald's Shamrock shake.


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For the shake pesto over the popcorn, dye the beer green and stay home and rent a video crowd, here's a list of Irish themed movies. Plus check list you can rent at Videomatica. (Scroll down past Iran.)

Bloody Sunday
Dancing at Lughnasa
Evelyn
Far and Away
Finian’s Rainbow
Gangs of New York
In Americca
In the Name of the Father
Intermission
Into the West
Leprechan
The Boxer
The Corrs: Best of the Corrs
The Cranberries: Stars – the Best of the Cranberries 1992 – 2002
The Field
The General
The Irish RM Series
The Irishman
The Quiet Man

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There's more coming later today in our Irish Weekend Special