Happy Birthday, Bard from Tralee

The Bard from Tralee (not to be confused with the Rose of Tralee) was actually born on the seventeenth of March.

But, very sadly, the birth of the Bard was officially recorded as being on the eighteenth of March and propriety demands that birthdays be celebrated on official dates of birth.

So we celebrate the birth of the Bard from Tralee on the eighteenth of March.

The difficulty in recording the date of birth properly was undoubtedly due to the fact: that, in those days, in County Kerry, they had no calendars.