domingo, 29 de abril de 2012


Culture and Tradition


  • St Patrick’s Day Celebration and Tradition

        Irish tradition is probably hundreds of years old and some still seen as a common tradition for many families.
March 17th marks the day of St Patrick, celebrated by millions of people around the world. In Ireland, St Patrick’s Day was always held as an important religious day to celebrate the teachings of Christianity by St Patrick.
As St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland it became a major day in Ireland’s religious calendar and has always been mainly associated with Christianity.

It’s now known in Ireland as St Patrick’s festival which takes place over 5 days with events including art shows, plays, concerts, fun fairs and themain parade.          


PARADE

  • The wearing of the green on St Patrick’s Day

        Many people wear something green on St Patrick ’s Day which is known in the U.S. and other countries as wearing of the green. Usually people would wear green to show their Irish heritage culture  on the day that everyone’s Irish but in Ireland the wearing of the green doesn’t really exist, well in terms of celebrating your culture. However, they wear Shamrocks to symbolize the teaching of the holy trinity by St Patrick. A small bunch of Shamrocks would be pinned to the breast of our outer coats.        
                                                

  • What’s mean the Shamrock in  St. Patrick’s Day?
        According to St. Patrick's Day lore, Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to explain the Christian holy trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

  •  Holy day of obligation

        Most Christians in Ireland will attend Church as they would every Sunday and treat it as a day of rest to spend with the family. Family members would attend Church wearing their shamrocks and afterwards head home for a large roast, similar to a typical Sunday roast. Some families would sit around and watch the St Patrick’s day parades take place in Dublin, New York, Chicago and other major cities.