How St. Patrick’s Day celebrations originally featured the color blue
With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been ...
"You Can Always Tell Who The Americans Are": 19 Cringey Things Only People From The US Do That Non-Americans Consider Major Red Flags
16."On Canada Day, Americans like to come north either to visit friends and family or to party. You can always tell who the ...
St. Patrick's Day parade celebrates Boston heritage in America’s most Irish big city
Throngs of green-clad revelers have filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city for the South Boston St. Patrick’s ...
How the color of St Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
St Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...
Who was St. Patrick and was he Italian? Historians have long debated his Roman lineage
Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name ...
St. Patrick’s Day parade delights with Irish spirit and ‘a little craziness’
The annual celebration’s start time was moved to 11:30 a.m., in a bid to curb excessive rowdiness and overcrowding.
The Malayali flying the Communist flag in London
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: USSR, the erstwhile homeland of Communist revolution may be a Jurassic Park for the rest of the world, ...
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Keane on books: Irish writers and publishers flying the flag in prestigious competitions
I’ll be in London next weekend so will miss the festivities marking 25 years of the Franco-Irish ­Literary ­Festival. Across March 28/29, in the Alliance Francaise and Dublin Castle, an array of ...
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Who was St. Patrick and was he Italian? Historians have long debated his Roman lineage
British? Could St. Patrick have actually been ... the colors of the Italian flag. (The colors of the Irish flag are green, white and orange.) Whatever his ethnic lineage, St. Patrick is an ...
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade: South Boston brings out the green beer, Irish flags again for revamped celebrations
kicking off at 11:30 a.m. From booing costumed “British Redcoats,” to dancing along to Irish jigs in the streets, to bringing out all the shamrocks, flags and green beer, traditions of the ...