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The Story of the Leprechaun. Patrick's Day Thanksgiving Valentine's Day. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. The holiday in Montserrat also commemorates a failed slave uprising that occurred on 17 March Astronauts on board the International Space Station have celebrated the festival in different ways.

Irish-American Catherine Coleman played a hundred-year-old flute belonging to Matt Molloy and a tin whistle belonging to Paddy Moloney , both members of the Irish music group The Chieftains , while floating weightless in the space station on Saint Patrick's Day in Chris Hadfield took photographs of Ireland from earth orbit, and a picture of himself wearing green clothing in the space station, and posted them online on Saint Patrick's Day in He also posted online a recording of himself singing " Danny Boy " in space.

One of the longest-running and largest St Patrick's Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal , [91] whose city flag includes a shamrock in its lower-right quadrant. The yearly celebration has been organised by the United Irish Societies of Montreal since The parade has been held yearly without interruption since St Patrick's Day itself, however, has been celebrated in Montreal since as far back as by Irish soldiers in the Montreal Garrison following the British conquest of New France. Patrick's Day is celebrated as a week-long celebration.

The festival is named for a young Irish doctor James Patrick Collins who worked on Partridge Island Saint John County quarantine station tending to sick Irish immigrants before he died there himself. In , the CelticFest Vancouver Society organised its first yearly festival in downtown Vancouver to celebrate the Celtic Nations and their cultures.

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This event, which includes a parade, occurs each year during the weekend nearest St Patrick's Day. In Quebec City , there was a parade from to There has been a parade held in Toronto since at least Patricks from to , and wore green jerseys. Some groups, notably Guinness , have lobbied to make Saint Patrick's Day a national holiday. Part of an environmental non-profit organisation's campaign Project Porchlight , the green represented environmental concerns.

Approximately lights were changed in time for Saint Patrick's Day, and resembled a Leprechaun 's hat. After a week, white CFLs took their place. St Patrick's Day, while not a legal holiday in the United States, is nonetheless widely recognised and observed throughout the country as a celebration of Irish and Irish-American culture. Celebrations include prominent displays of the colour green, religious observances, numerous parades, and copious consumption of alcohol. In Buenos Aires, a party is held in the downtown street of Reconquista, where there are several Irish pubs; [98] [99] in , there were 50, people in this street and the pubs nearby.

St Patrick's Day celebrations have been criticised, particularly for their association with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Some argue that the festivities have become too commercialised and tacky, [] and have strayed from their original purpose of honouring St Patrick and Irish heritage.

St Patrick's Day celebrations have also been criticised for fostering demeaning stereotypes of Ireland and Irish people. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is the latest accepted revision , reviewed on 8 December Patrick's Day" redirects here. For the Bing Crosby album, see St. For The Office episode, see St. Patrick's Day The Office. For the film, see Patrick's Day film. Saint Patrick's Day in the United States. Holidays portal Ireland portal Christianity portal.

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The religious occasion did involve the wearing of shamrocks, an Irish symbol of the Holy Trinity, and the lifting of Lenten restrictions on drinking. Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs: The Story of the St. For most Irish-Americans, this holiday is partially religious but overwhelmingly festive. For most Irish people in Ireland the day has little to do with religion at all. Patrick's Day church services are followed by parades and parties, the latter being the best attended. The festivities are marked by Irish music, songs, and dances.

Like many other forms of carnival, St. Patrick's Day is a feast day, a break from Lent in which adherents are allowed to temporarily abandon rigorous fasting by indulging in the forbidden. Since alcohol is often proscribed during Lent the copious consumption of alcohol is seen as an integral part of St. A History of Catholics in America. The day period not counting Sundays prior to Easter is known as Lent, a time of prayer and fasting. Pastors of Irish- American parishes often supplied "dispensations" for St. Patrick s Day, enabling parishioners to forego Lenten sacrifices in order to celebrate the feast of their patron saint.

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There is no evidence that the clover or wood sorrel both of which are called shamrocks were sacred to the Celts in any way. However, the Celts had a philosophical and cosmological vision of triplicity, with many of their divinities appearing in three. Patrick, attempting to convert the Druids on Beltane, held up a shamrock and discoursed on the Christian Trinity, the three-in-one god, he was doing more than finding a homely symbol for a complex religious concept.

He was indicating knowledge of the significance of three in the Celtic realm, a knowledge that probably made his mission far easier and more successful than if he had been unaware of that number's meaning. In some ways, though, the Christian mission resonated: Against this backdrop the myth of Patrick and his three-leafed shamrock fits quite neatly. The Art of the Sublime: Principles of Christian Art and Architecture. Retrieved 14 March Myths and Legends of the Celts. The Book of the Taking of Ireland. Irish Texts Society by the Educational Co.

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