St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17. People would dance and feast all day. Soldiers marched down the street on St. Patrick's Day. Groups would hold parades with bagpipes and drums. St. Patrick's Day parades became a show of strength for Irish Americans. There are parade's at the main cities and people go there to watch them. It happens because of when the Irish came to America. People usually wear green on this holiday. If you don't wear green people pinch you constantly. In Chicago there is a huge parade on St. Patrick's Day. There are a lot of people dressed in green watching the parade go by.
A man named Patrick made up St. Patrick's Day. Patrick became very successful at winning converts. He was arrested several times. He escaped every time. He traveled in Ireland. He died on March 17 in AD 461. Ever since that day has been called St. Patrick's Day. Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. His lores include the belief that Patrick raised people from the dead. One tradition of today is the Shamrock. People adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day. St. Patrick's Day came to America in 1737. It went to Boston First.
The parade has Disney characters and other cool people dressed in green. On St. Patrick's Day, if you find a four leaf clover you will have good luck that day and something good will happen to you. If you don't have time to get out to Chicago there are several parades on T.V. They are on like all the easy channels like 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and channels like that so don't worry if you don't have cable, you will have the channels for the parades.
In a couple of our classes we put up posters on this day, we dress up in green. We also do the thing that if you don't wear green then you receive a pinch. Also some of the 7th graders receive "kudos" if they wear green on March 17. Some classes in the 6th grade have little class party.
In 1995, the Irish government began a campaign to use St. Patrick's Day as an opportunity for showcase and tourism Ireland to the rest of the world. A year ago, close to a million people took part in Ireland's St. Patrick's Day Festival in Dublin. It was a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor heater productions, and fireworks shows.
In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious occasion. In the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs bee closed on March 17th. St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday, even though originally it was a Catholic holy day.
Here is a relating website for St. Patrick's Day It explains how everything is done, and you can learn interesting facts. They really care about there country. This website has some interesting icons on it which you can download on computer. There is also clipart in there website, and the best thing of all is that they have poems about St.
Patrick's Day. This website explains when St. Patrick's Day started and how it had begun and why. It has many more interesting facts on it. It also has several poems you can read. They also play music once you log on to there main page The Happy St. Patrick's Day.
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