March 17th is St. Patrick's Day. Not knowing much about the holiday I did a little reading and found that St. Patrick converted many Irishmen to Christianity. He wasn't Irish himself, but was so loved that he was made Patron Saint of all Ireland. His day has been celebrated since the year 461. St. Patrick's Day is still a legal, national holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by the Irish and Irish at heart all around the world with parades, "wearing of the green," music, songs, Irish food. Some communities even go so far as to dye their rivers and streams green. It's a day of fun.
Let us know how you have celebrated St. Patrick's Day?
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Do you think I could find a Boston radio station playing Irish music today? No! But, that didn't get me down! Of course, I dressed in GREEN today!! But the true celebrating will wait for the weekend. We will be celebrating with the Irish food in true form with a good Corned Beef & Cabbage dinner. I'm Irish but I don't use the traditional one pot recipe. I cook the meat alone and use cinnamon, applesauce, ketchup and onion soup in the crock pot for the corned beef. It lessens the salty taste. (And I love boiled cabbage, and steamed carrots but I don't do boiled potatoes...I'll do 'em mashed!) I also make an awesome Irish Bread that I have been making for over 30 years. We'll have that for breakfast. Our local parades are on Sunday, but I'll miss out due to a prior commmitment. I'd love to hear how others celebrate!!!
My mom's ancestry is Protestant Irish, so she would never let me wear green on St. Patrick's Day; I had to wear orange. I usually snuck something green out of the house to keep from getting pinched at school. Now that I'm an adult, I wear green because it's my favorite color and it looks good on me, but I always try to have a little orange on, too.
I remember when I was little, that all the adults used to wear shamrock to church on St Patrick's day - but haven't seen anyone wearing it for years - although i am sure there are lots of people all over the world that still wear it on that day.
Croagh patrick is a mountain near Westport in County Mayo and I think many pilgrims climb it on St Patrick's day. When we were there we started the climb, but it was too late to go to the top - but the views are fantastic.
kathy, did you know that 1st March is St Davids day, he is patron saint of Wales, which is where I live. We wear daffodils in our lapels or imitation broches that look like daffodils.
Angela
PS nice to meet you in Tampa
Here is a link about St David, the patron saint of Wales, where Olive Osmond ancestors come from )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David's_Day
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