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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Green as Can Be – St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

The end of Carnival, Mardis Gras, et al. got you down? Cheer up: St. Patrick‘s Day is next week! Although March 17th commemorates Saint Patrick‘s death (what a great, great saint he was) the St. Paddy‘s Day mood is pure joie de vivre. With huge parades, landmarks floodlit in emerald, and rivers dyed green, St. Patrick‘s Day has become a worldwide spectacle. From Dublin and New York all the way to Sydney and Tokyo, the St. Paddy‘s Day party is poppin‘, and everyone‘s reveling in green.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig – Irish for a Day

On Lá Fhéile Pádraig, or St. Paddy‘s Day, as the Irish are fond of calling it, everybody gets to be Irish for a day. And costumes are always a part of the festivities, where it‘s green, green and greener as far as the eye can see. Whether you‘re going to a St. Paddy‘s Day parade or straight to the pub, we‘ve got festive St. Patrick‘s Day costumes, hats, wigs, green accessories galore and make-up in Irish colors. Or express the Irish zest for life in a kilt, goblin costume or as a glass of frothy beer. Of course, leprechauns, shamrocks and the lucky four-leaf clover – Ireland‘s national symbol – make St. Patrick‘s Day what it is.

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St. Patrick’s Day around the World

Biggest is not always best. After all, wherever there’s a bar is the right place to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day. Due to early Irish settlements along the Appalachian mountains, Savannah, Georgia and Scranton, Pennsylvania continue to host some of the highest quality, most established parades. Beginning in 1762, the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City is interestingly both the largest in the world and the oldest civilian parade. Dublin flaunts the second-largest, and Birmingham is the place to be in Great Britain. Just to the north of New York, Montreal is where it’s happening. Speaking of Canada, did you know that Toronto’s hockey team used to be called the St. Patricks?

Outside of the English-speaking world, porteños, those native to Buenos Aires, get to enjoy their beer outside on Reconquista Street downtown at its many Irish pubs. (Remember, March 17th belongs to the last days of summer in the southern hemisphere.) And since the 1990s in Japan and Russia and the 1970s in South Korea, St. Paddy’s Day has seen a growing following. The same is true for our home base, Berlin. Here the festivities kick off around 2 pm, and there are plenty of Irish pubs for after hours. Wherever you find yourself this St. Patrick’s Day, dressing up is encouraged.

Wishing you the luck of the Irish,

The Crew @ maskworld.com


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