Hi everybody.

Hi and welcome back to the Irish Passport.

And today we are bringing you a special bonus episode in honour of our National Day.

A day, in fact, that has become a bit of an international festival.

It is, of course, St. Patrick's Day.

L'A. La Lopourig, Honey-Yuve. and today we are going to be looking at the origins of the holiday.

We will be looking into the stereotypes, good and bad, that surround this festival.

And I'm going to tell you the little-known backstory to how the Irish pub took over the world.

Okay, but Naomi, first, we need to introduce our brand new exclusive mini-series, the Irish Passport Half Pints, available only to Irish Passport patrons.

Yes, we have started a Patreon page to support the podcast. Everyone who signs up will get exclusive access to our new series Half Pints.

Now, we've been talking about this for a while while since there's so many things that we don't

get to go over in the main podcast and there's so many suggestions every day that are coming

in from our listeners. So in this series of shorter HalfPynt episodes, we'll get to look at some

topics in a little bit more detail and we'll also have time to answer some of our listener

questions, which is something we usually don't have time for these days. Episode one of the Irish Passport Half Pints will be out very soon. Are we ready to tell them what the first episode is about Tim?

I suppose we might as well go on.

Okay, so we are going to take you listeners into the world of ancient Ireland, a place with warrior queens, magic cows, and heroic fighting men.

This is not the typical shame-filled Catholic Ireland stereotype. We know. This gets a little bit raunchy at times. Just head over to patreon.com forward slash the Irish

passport or you can find all the links on our website, www.theirish passport.com.

All right, let's get on with the episode.

I have been told that it makes a difference

who the person behind the bar is.

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