As we speak is Saint Patrick’s Day, a day filled with traditions corresponding to making an attempt to catch leprechauns or that pot of gold, attending parades or consuming corned beef.
There may be additionally a historical past behind the traditions and previous myths.
Professor Fionnuala Regan at St. John Fisher College joins Spectrum Information 1 to debate St. Patrick’s Day historical past.
She says St. Patrick’s Day was far more of a spiritual vacation to mark Saint Patrick, with many attending mass and different festivities. It is since turn into much less of a spiritual celebration.
She says the U.S. truly began the custom of parades earlier than Eire. And now it is a vacation that is turn into a worldwide celebration.
“It is wonderful that this patron Saint of Eire has this someday a 12 months the place everyone wish to be Irish, and everybody all over the world,” Regan mentioned. “It is wonderful this tiny nation has its patron saint celebrated all over the world at the moment.”
She says on the subject of the ‘luck of the Irish,’ folks have shared tales and traditions of what brings good and unhealthy luck for hundreds of years.Â