So I spent Saint Patrick’s Day in Dublin, with Ruby and Nezrina, (beautiful, beautiful human beings, inside and out) to see the parade and be part of the festivity, which is supposed to be all about commemorating Saint Patrick, but, you know.. :-) Most of all it’s a big party, a reason to celebrate and drink and amuse oneself, where people wear green, dress up as leprechauns, etc.
Background information about Saint Patrick: He was the bishop who brought christianity to Ireland. Legend has it that he also banished the snakes, but it’s very unlikely that there ever would’ve been snakes here, due to the climate. Historians elucidate the snakes as a symbol for paganism. Saint Patrick, aka Maewyn Succat (that was his real name), used a shamrock to explain the holy trinity (the father, the son and the holy spirit). In case you were wondering why everybody associates Ireland with shamrocks. He himself wasn’t actually irish though. :-)
Isa and Luisa organised our own bus, which left Tuam at 06.00 in the morning. Drowsy and with under-eye circles we started our daytrip. At the rising of the sun we were painting our faces with little shamrocks and the flag of ireland. (did u know? the green part of the flag symbolises the catholics and ireland, the orange bit represents the protestants and the white part inbetween stands for peace between the two.)
Ruby thought outside of the box and drew a little seaweed on my left cheek.
Very artistic. :-)
We had a wonderful breakfast in a coffeehouse, including porridge with cinnamon and honey, pancakes with lemon and sugar, yoghurt with banana & oats, coffee & tea.
It’s a special year to be here, from a historical view: In 1916 Ireland gained its independence from Britain, and this year, 2016, it’s the centenary. Last week in school, on proclamation day, we had four leaving certs holding impressive speeches about Ireland’s achievements in the past 100 years & how they imagine their countrie’s future.
Furthermore, all the students went out to raise the irish flag and Mrs. Cosgrove and Mrs. O’hara let fly two balloons that carried envelopes with the names and age of two kids that died in the easter rising rebellion. Then we sang the national anthem. I think irish sounds very elfish. It’s beautiful.
Sinne Fianna Fáil
A tá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buion dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn
Fé mhóid bheith saor.
Sean tír ár sinsir feasta
Ní fhagfar fé’n tiorán ná fé’n tráil
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
Le guna screach fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFíann.
Remember. Reflect. Re-imagine.
Accoring to that, the theme of the parade of Saint Patrick Day’s Festival 2016 was ‘Imagine if...’. ☜ click on the theme if you want to find out more.
“Over half a million (510,000) people turned out to enjoy this year’s St. Patrick’s Festival Parade in excellent weather conditions. The streets of Dublin were awash with colour as the 2016 Parade, themed Imagine If… was brought to life by Ireland’s leading pageant companies who dazzled with their artistic flair and creativity. Close to 3,000 performers participated in this year’s Festival Parade.”
Pictures shall follow. :-)
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