St Patrick’s Day: The patron saint who ‘liked a drink’

[Pelican Press 0]

St Patrick’s Day: The patron saint who ‘liked a drink’

“John Carr wrote in the early 19th century… that around this time of the year the country people assemble and get very tipsy, they walk through the streets wearing the shamrock in their hats, ******** is drank in copious libations, and the merry devotees continue until the greater part of the next day in honour of Sheelagh, St Patrick’s wife,” he said, adding that St Sheelagh is now mostly forgotten today.

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