From Feast to Festival, How St Patricks Day has Evolved over the past 1500 Years
St Patricks Day is celebrated the world over whether through parades, cultural events, dyeing rivers green or lighting up buildings. How has this come to be? How alone among saints has the ‘Apostle of Ireland’ come to be so celebrated? How among the over 10,000 saints has our uncanonised one achieved such fame?
These and other more locally focussed questions are addressed in Dr. Tony McCarthy’s talk.
