Is their anyone who can do some traditional Irish dancing?

princesa del fuego · Post by **princesa del fuego** » Thu May 27, 2004 7:54 am

I would love to have some traditional Irish dancers at my wedding on Sept 3rd

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Thu May 27, 2004 10:50 am

I know a few Irish drinking songs, does that count? Not that I can sing worth a spit.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Thu May 27, 2004 5:43 pm

Contact me off list sometime next week. I'm pretty sure I can set you up with a crew who'll be arriving the first of the week.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Thu May 27, 2004 6:34 pm

Well, you're looking for bagpipers, traditional Irish dancers, traditional wedding stuff...?

How about some good old Irish games... like Irish Stand Down, or Donnybrook, or Hide the Potato on the Playa?

Just some ideas...

princesa del fuego · Post by **princesa del fuego** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:44 am

samtzu wrote:Well, you're looking for bagpipers, traditional Irish dancers, traditional wedding stuff...?

How about some good old Irish games... like Irish Stand Down, or Donnybrook, or Hide the Potato on the Playa?

Just some ideas...

I have never heard of these games? Do they really exist and if they do, how are they played?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:50 am

Do you own a cattle prod?? (dance sucker DAaaaaNCE!!)

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:29 pm

princesa del fuego wrote:
samtzu wrote:Well, you're looking for bagpipers, traditional Irish dancers, traditional wedding stuff...?

How about some good old Irish games... like Irish Stand Down, or Donnybrook, or Hide the Potato on the Playa?

Just some ideas...
I have never heard of these games? Do they really exist and if they do, how are they played?

Well, Irish Stand Down is when two people (usually drunken men) stand toe-to-toe and one smashes the other in the face, trying to knock him down. If he does, the other tries to get up and take his turn. The last one left standing wins.

Donnybrook is when a group of drunken persons (again, usually men) start wailing away on each other with fists, pipes, sheleliehs (sp), bottles, etc. The side that has the most men standing at the end wins.

Hide the Potato on the Playa harkens back to the black days of the famine, when there were no potatoes to be found anywhere. This game is played without a potato, and it is run by the English. Everyone is systematically starved for several weeks, and then they are then told there is a potato out on the playa, whereby they run around looking for it until they die of starvation, since there really is no potato. The contestant who emigrates to a place where they have lots of food and starvation wages (The United States, Canada, or Australia), wins, but only if he, or she, becomes a politician, bartender, or cop.

There are other games, but they require guns, bombs, and informers, are played mainly in the North these days, and they usually wind up with someone getting hurt.

Sam

Is their anyone who can do some traditional Irish dancing?

Is their anyone who can do some traditional Irish dancing?

I've never heard of these

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