One look at your calendar and you know – ’tis the season. No, not of giving, or even goodwill. It’s the season of greening. You all know St Patrick’s Day reaches well beyond Ireland these days, with March 17th celebrated as the day the world goes green. The spirit of St Patrick’s Day has essentially [...]
I’m blogging right from the heart of the madness of St Patrick’s Parade in Dublin. I’ve got an eagle eye view from the bus and I’ll be keeping you updated throughout… stay tuned! 11.45 St Patrick’s Day has meant parades for as long as I can remember. But there’s another new tradition raising its cheerful [...]
St Patrick’s Day is a day of pride, heritage and celebration. It’s the day the whole world channels the fun and merriment of Ireland in their own way whether dressing up Leprechaun style, dying an entire river green or just chomping on a novelty green bagel for lunch. So, I think you can understand that [...]
I’m blogging live from the big bus leading Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade, and providing minute-by-minute updates of all the madness from the very heart of it! The other guys on the bus, by the way, are media people from across the globe, and they seem to be loving it! They’re all on the top [...]
Readers and St Patrick’s revellers, prepare yourself for a shock: Ireland was not actually the first place to host a St Patrick’s Day parade. We have the wonderful city of Boston, Massachusetts, to thank for starting that, now legendary, tradition. It was back in 1737 when a group of homesick Irish immigrants marched through the [...]
There’s a saying in Ireland that you may or may not have heard. It goes ‘The craic was mighty!’ and it means you’ve had a great time somewhere. It’s also a phrase that Micheál Ó Domhnaill is well used to hearing. Music group Dervish making beautiful music on Livetrad Micheál is the musical maestro behind [...]
It’s our national day of pride, heritage and celebration. It’s the day the whole world channels the fun and merriment of the Irish in their own way (whether picking up a hurley like Governor Schwarzenegger, dying an entire river green or just chomping on a novelty green bagel for lunch). So can you forgive us [...]
We all love a happy ending but happy endings usually start with tough beginnings. And they don’t come much tougher or more poetic than the story of St Patrick; child to slave, shepherd to savior, saint to legend. It would definitely make an Oscar-winner of a feel-good movie. But the best part of St Patrick’s [...]
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