Happy St. Patrick's Day! / St. Patrick's Origin
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day is about having a great time and sharing love.
I hope that your day is full of love and gladness with those that you care about most!
In Ireland, the day of celebration has been a public holiday since 1903 and the first parade was held in Waterford that year. In the UK, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother would present bowls of shamrock flown over from Ireland to members of the Irish Guards in the British Army. The tradition carries on today with the Irish Guards still wearing shamrocks flown over from Ireland.
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What happens on St Patrick's Day and when are the London and Dublin parades?
Celebrations across the world usually include public parades, parties and festivals and usually people dress up in green clothes and wear shamrocks.These parties have become like carnivals, with parades with marching bands and all different types of organisations like fire brigades and youth groups heading out to march.
In London there will be a St Patrick's Day festival from March 16-18 with a parade on March 18. The event historically attracts more than 125,000 people to central London and Trafalgar Square. The St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin will take place on Saturday March 17. Starting at 11am at Parnell Square the procession will go all around the city centre in a flurry of costumes, music and a lot of green.
In Ireland, one tradition called "drowning the shamrock" involves putting a shamrock at the bottom of a cup and filling it up with whiskey or beer before it's than drank.
Great post
This great history, i appreciate your post. keep it up
I remember as a young student getting pinched by other students when I forgot to wear a green color item...So, all I knew back then was that ST. Patrick Day was a pain in the butt...
Interesting. So that's how St.Patrick day started. Though it's not that popular in my country there are still people here that celebrates it. Thanks for the information @lordoftruth
Happy St. Pat's Day buddy !
Hope you had great day !
The Irish are 21-5 up against England in the six nations rugby, a win that would give them a Grand Slam in the 6 six nations. I've got a feeling that Dublin is going to be extra fun this evening!
Wow @lordortruth very cleaver so,nice and ive love it all uniform colourful green t-shirts. They always do the celebrations the same like us we do celebrate those holidays
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone :)
Very good story, happy day!! thanks for sharing it with us I learned a lot from Saint Patrick
paint it green and as the saying goes, everybody's Irish on St. Paddy's Day..Cheers @lordoftruth!