Unlikely World Record Holders
The village of Dripsey is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records at having the shortest St. Patricks Day Parade in the World measuring just 23.4 metres. It went the distance from one door to the next of the village's two pubs, The Weigh Inn and The Lee Valley.
It continued for nine years (1999 - 2007) until the closure of The Lee Valley Inn.
Famous quotes containing the words world, record and/or holders:
“The world only remembers the winners.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Admiral Lutjens (Karel Stepanek)
“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born.... These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution—this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”
—Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)
“With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,
Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and
lands—and this for his dear sake,
Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)