St Patrick was actually a Roman Briton, who was kidnapped by Irish raiders, spirited across the sea and enslaved, aged 16. How did he become Ireland’s national hero?
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Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick lived.
The holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.
Eclipsed by the more popular Saint Patrick, Gertrude of Nivelles is also celebrated today, a holy woman who somewhat inexplicably became the patron saint of cats.
Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.
St. Patrick’s Day is typically a day of drinking and revelry, if not reverence for Ireland’s patron saint. In this year’s subdued celebration environment, a biochemist suggests thanking our livers.
Irish language and culture, not Guinness and Leprechaun costumes, were at the heart of early St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
St Patrick chose Ireland over the place of his birth – but where was that exactly?
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