Manic Monday Green

You say green, I say Irish.

We have a great Irish community in our city.

The Irish section on the west end of town is called Tipperary Hill.

We boast such pubs as Rosie O'Grady's, Nibsy's Pub, McNamara's Pub, Coleman's Pub and The Blarney Stone.

This light sits on Tipperary Hill.

Green on top

Red on the bottom.

Here's the scoop on how the light came to be.

When the city first started to install traffic lights in the 1920's they put one at a major intersection on Tipperary Hill, on the corner of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue. Some Irish youths, incensed that anyone would dare to put the "British" red above the "Irish" green, broke the light. The city replaced it but the Irish broke the replacement. After a few rounds of this the city decided that if they wanted a light at that intersection, they had better put the signal up inverted, and so they did, and so it stayed.

Now raise that glass of green beer and say "Sláinte"! (to your health)

and go visit Mo at it's a blog eat blog world to see how everyone else interpreted the word "green".