This week we bring you the best promotion ever: FREE BEER! Next Tuesday, just walk into Foley\u2019s Pub and Restaurant, across the street from the Empire State Building. Channel your inner Irish. Clear your throat. Lift your voice and deliver an emotional rendition of any Irish song. And Foley\u2019s will pour you a free Guinness. Brilliant!<\/p>\n
Just don\u2019t choose \u201cDanny Boy.\u201d That song has been bounced out of Foley\u2019s for the month of March. Says owner Shaun Clancy, “It’s overplayed, it’s been ranked among the 25 most depressing songs of all time and it’s more appropriate for a funeral than for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration.\u201d So to make St. Paddy\u2019s more perky, Foley\u2019s is giving away free pints to patrons who\u2019ll sing ANYTHING but Danny Boy. And we want to do our part. To help you, our valued, thirsty colleagues, we suggest the following, upbeat Irish classics for practicing this weekend:<\/p>\n
\u201cCockels and Mussels\u201d: the story of a beautiful girl who sells fish on the streets and dies of a fever<\/p>\n
\u201cFields of Athenry\u201d: a lovely little ditty about the Great Famine<\/p>\n
\u201cWhiskey in the Jar\u201d: a noble highwayman is betrayed by his lover and imprisoned<\/p>\n
\u201cRed is the Rose\u201d: with the immortal words, \u201ctis all for the loss of my bonny Irish lass that my heart is breaking forever\u201d<\/p>\n
With so many peppy classics to choose from, you might want to sing a second\u2026then a third. Who knows, after a few hours, you may stumble home hoarse and happy, humming the final, triumphant verse of \u201cCarrickfergus\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m drunk today and I\u2019m rarely sober,
\nA handsome rover from town to town.
\nOh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
\nCome all ye young men and lay me down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yippee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week we bring you the best promotion ever: FREE BEER! Next Tuesday, just walk into Foley\u2019s Pub and Restaurant, across the street from the Empire State Building. Channel your inner Irish. Clear your throat. Lift your voice and deliver an emotional rendition of any Irish song. And Foley\u2019s will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214,267,319,430,530,626,1018,1165,1332],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","tag-carrickfergus","tag-cockels-and-mussels","tag-danny-boy","tag-fields-of-athenry","tag-guinness","tag-irish","tag-red-is-the-rose","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-whishey-in-the-jar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}