WHAT’S THE CRAIC?

1. In St. Patrick’s Day we should wear blue clothes.

2. Saint Patrick was Irish.
3. St Patrick’s Day used to be a Dry Holiday, which meant all the pubs were shut down.
4. Leprechauns can be both male and female.
5. The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland.
6. In Chicago they celebrate this day by dumping green dye into the river to get green water.
7. It’s possible to drink green beer on this day
8. For most Irish, St. Patrick’s Day is just an excuse to get drunk.
9. The Fist St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York.
10. Every year, the Irish leader gives shamrocks to the US Presidents as a gift.

WHAT’S THE CRAIC?

1. In St. Patrick’s Day we should wear blue clothes.
2. Saint Patrick was Irish.
3. St Patrick’s Day used to be a Dry Holiday, which meant all the pubs were shut down.
4. Leprechauns can be both male and female.
5. The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland.
6. In Chicago they celebrate this day by dumping green dye into the river to get green water.
7. It’s possible to drink green beer on this day
8. For most Irish, St. Patrick’s Day is just an excuse to get drunk.
9. The Fist St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York.
10. Every year, the Irish leader gives shamrocks to the US Presidents as a gift.

WHAT’S THE CRAIC?

1. In St. Patrick’s Day we should wear blue clothes.
2. Saint Patrick was Irish.
3. St Patrick’s Day used to be a Dry Holiday, which meant all the pubs were shut down.
4. Leprechauns can be both male and female.
5. The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland.
6. In Chicago they celebrate this day by dumping green dye into the river to get green water.
7. It’s possible to drink green beer on this day
8. For most Irish, St. Patrick’s Day is just an excuse to get drunk.
9. The Fist St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York.
10. Every year, the Irish leader gives shamrocks to the US Presidents as a gift.

WHAT’S THE CRAIC?

1. In St. Patrick’s Day we should wear blue clothes.
2. Saint Patrick was Irish.
3. St Patrick’s Day used to be a Dry Holiday, which meant all the pubs were shut down.
4. Leprechauns can be both male and female.
5. The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland.
6. In Chicago they celebrate this day by dumping green dye into the river to get green water.
7. It’s possible to drink green beer on this day
8. For most Irish, St. Patrick’s Day is just an excuse to get drunk.
9. The Fist St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York.
10. Every year, the Irish leader gives shamrocks to the US Presidents as a gift.
 Although he made his mark by
In several artworks, St Patrick was
introducing Christianity to Ireland,
drawn wearing blue clothes, and the
Patrick was born to Roman parents
colour green only became
in Scotland or Wales. At the age of
associated with this day, after it was
16, he was kidnapped by Irish
linked to the Irish independence
raiders who sold him as a slave.

For most of the 20th century, Saint

Don’t be fooled by any holiday
Patrick’s Day was considered a
decorations showing lady
strictly religious holiday in Ireland,
leprechauns. In traditional Irish folk
which meant that the nation’s pubs
tales there’re only nattily attired little
were closed for business on March
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17.

Although it’s a popular Irish symbol,

the harp has represented the nation
since the medieval period. However,
the shamrock is associated with
Saint Patrick because he used it as a
teaching tool to explain the Holy
Trinity.
The city has been celebrating Saint
Patrick by dumping green dye into
the Chicago River since 1962. It
takes 40 tons of dye to get the river
to a suitably festive shade!

Whether you’re hosting a St. Paddy’s

Day party or simply treating yourself St. Patrick’s Day is not a drinking
to a pint, these are the ingredients festivity. It’s one of the most
you need to make the perfect pint of important days for Irish to spend with
green beer: beer, a pint glass and family and friends. It’s also a
green food colouring. National Holiday in both Ireland and
Northern Ireland.

St Patrick's day was actually started

Traditionally, every year, the Irish
in 18th century American cities by
leader hands a crystal bowl full of
persecuted Irish immigrants who
shamrock to the US President. The
were trying to confirm and hold on to
shamrock, grown in Kerry, is
their heritage.
immediately destroyed by the
The first St. Patrick's Day parade took
Secret Service after the exchange.
place in New York in the 1760s.