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It's St. Patricks day tomorrow! Is anyone doing anything exciting? I wonder if Tintin would have enjoyed it, actually I wonder if Tintin could have had an adventure in Ireland. I know how I'm going to spend it, a bit like Captain Haddock... ;-)

Oh, also not forgetting Good Friday next week.

I'm not a Christian and I always take time out of my busy work schedule as a student photographer to enjoy the day off and visit some various sites in my hometown.

Well, may I know what is St. Patricks Day and why this day came out? Is it to comemerate a saint?

I just went into my local town and saw a sea of men wearing green hats waiting to get onto buses to the stadium nearby. Everyone is enthusiastic!

St Patricks day! The patron saint of Ireland, it's really just an excuse for everyone to get really drunk though...

Well, I live in Puerto Rico. There's a place that made a parade yesterday, because it bears the name of the saint: San Patricio. It's in the city of Guaynabo.

As for me, I work. But afterwards, I check a bit of the St. Patrick's Day New York Parade on Cable. And I toast with Bailey's to the day (no, I don't get drunk). Not exciting. I don't drink beer, so Guiness, for me, is out of the question.

Tintinspartan asked:

Well, may I know what is St. Patricks Day and why this day came out? Is it to comemerate a saint?

Answer:
St. Patrick was a Roman Catholic that was kidnapped and sold as a slave to the Celtic people in Ireland. He had to spend years before he could escape, but he learned a lot about them and wanted to Christianize the Celts. So, when he returned, he studied to be a priest and then returned to Ireland as a missionary to bring Christianism there.

He was very successful, because he knew how to use the Culture of the Celts to convert them. In other countries, the Catholic Church imposed too much of its own culture, but Patrick used the Celtic philosophies that were compatible with his teachings and used them to create a more flexible kind of Catholic worship. He was laughed at by his peers back in Europe. But he was successful, and decided to live in Ireland for the rest of his life and he died there.

Here in the USA, we observe St. Patrick's day as a day where everyone is supposed to wear (something) green. I actually assumed that it was kind of made up by greeting card companies and that the Irish might not even have such a day, at least not at the same time.


Cigars of the Beeper admits he was wrong:[

LOL! The green represents the main color of Ireland, also known as "The Emerald Isle". Also, it is the color of the famous shamrock. Legend has it that St. Patrick used it to explain the Holy Trinity to the Celts. The celebration is official in Ireland and Irish descendants that live in the US celebrate it as well. And the rest of us who aren't Irish celebrate it with them! :D


About Tintin having an adventure in Ireland...well no. But he was in Scotland ('The Black Island'). The Irish and the Scots have the same roots of origin and both cultures have similar customs.

Happy St. Patrick's Day All!

Reporting back after yesterday, it was quite eventful! First got a bit merry with Irish whiskey and Danish beer, i have viking ancestory, XD, then went into Dublin city centre for all the festivities, I got home at a respectable hour though and read the Black Island, I wish I had had some Loch Lomond!