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Calendar year.17 March is the feast day of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is a day of drinking, singing and revelry when the Irish of the world wear green, and parades are held in many parts of the country. Among the many legends of St Patrick, he is particularly famous for driving the serpent out of Ireland.

暦。3月17日はアイルランドの守護聖人パトリックの祝祭日。世界中のアイリッシュたちが緑色の服を着て飲んで歌って騒ぐ日とされていて、各地でパレード等が開催されます。数ある聖パトリック伝説中、アイルランドから蛇を追い払った件は特に有名であります。

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I know it's chemicals that make me cling to you

And I need a miracle to get away from you

I know it's chemicals

and I need a miracle

And I'm not spiritual

But please stay

'Cause I think you're a saint and I think you're an angel

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Charch 2026 day 17: St. Patrick

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Happy St.Patrick’s Day!

St.Patrick was a historical figure, born in 4th century England. He was sainted and his feast day is today, March 17. To honor the holiday we want to share Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle: The historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, unto the yeare 1509. It was originally intended to be a natural history of the known world, but after the death of its first creator, Reynor Wolfe, Raphael Holinshed, his assistant, narrowed the scope to Great Britain. The volume we are highlighting today focuses on Ireland in particular. The text is from the Elizabethan edition printed in 1577, it is still relatively legible to the modern English reader but has variations in words and spellings. This three part chronicle is also important to the history of literature because it was a source of knowledge for English playwright, William Shakespeare when writing Macbeth and King Lear. Several pages describe the life of St.Patrick from his childhood in Roman Britain, to his capture and enslavement by the Irish, his escape, his religious education and his return to Ireland. He is now the patron Saint of Ireland.

Our copy is a 1979 Dolmen Press Edition, printed with the woodcut illustrations from the first edition. Not much is known about the creator of the original woodcuts but the British Library speculates, “The woodcut illustrations of the 1577 edition were intended to bring the textual account to life, but not to be historically realistic or to serve as a documentary source in themselves. Although most of the costly woodcuts used were commissioned specifically for the project, a large number of them were reused throughout the work and as such illustrate types rather than specific individuals or events.“ Dolmen Press was an Irish owned and operated publisher founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry "and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry after W. B. Yeats. ”

Today St.Patrick’s Day in the United States has been almost completely transformed into a secular holiday celebrating Ireland, Irish ancestry, and all things Irish. This transformation started in the 1700′s when large cities in America were highly populated with Irish immigrants and their political leaders wanted to celebrate their Irish beginnings.

-- Claire, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker.