St. Patrick’s Day has been a significant festival across several countries for several years now. Even cultures and races whihc don’t really get involved in the celebration tend to know a few general facts about the same. So what is it that makes this green colored parade laden with hats and more so special? Let’s find out a few general things about the festival and a few interesting facts and backstories.
This day is also known as the feast day of St. Patrick who is the patron saint of Ireland. He has an interesting flashback. He was born in Roman Britain, late into the 4th century following which he was kidnapped at age 16. He was then abducted straight to Ireland as a slave. Interestingly, he escaped from their custody but returned back. There is more detailed info which is quite interesting.
However, it was the emigrants of the US who played the lead role in the transformation of this day into a holiday celebrated with grandiose. The first-ever St. Patrick’s day parade went about with large crowds of Irish immigrants with great political power in the streets of Boston in the year 1737. With the passage of time, the day came to be celebrated by everyone irrespective of their nationality, and they all participate in sporting green outfits and a lapel or any item depicting the Irish national plant.
St. Patrick’s Day Quotes
- Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Colin Farrell
- Ireland has always been the home of the dreamer, the poet and the storyteller.
Jordan Richard
- St. Patrick’s Day always involves fighting, public urination, vomit.
A.D. Aliwat
- Don’t throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.
Tim O’Brien
- I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick
- St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.
Adrienne Cook
- There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge
- Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
- Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.
St. Patrick
- I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Denzel Washington
- I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
- You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish proverb
- There is luck in leisure.
Irish proverb
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank – I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry – for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Saint Patrick
- Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Dave Barry
- Luck is believing you’re lucky.
Tennessee Williams
- Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers’ high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn’t stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.
Eoin Colfer
- Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
John Paul II
- Ireland has one of the world’s heaviest rainfalls. If you see an Irishman with a tan, it’s rust.
Dave Allen
- May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need the most.
Irish blessing
- You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean
- There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge
- May your trouble be less. And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.
Irish Blessing
- The one thing us Irish have is the ability to laugh at ourselves. God bless us all.
Ann Kennedy
- May you only grow old in the face. Be treasured and cared for with grace.
Irish blessing
- I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
Anne Enright
- Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Wilson Mizner
- If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go—you’ll find family.
Victoria Smurfit
Conclusion
To wrap things up, St. Patrick’s Day is something worth knowing about, with all the happiness and joy exhibited by the people in green going about living their best life on the parade grounds and streets across multiple countries.
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