Hello to everyone and happy St. Patrick’s Day to all celebrating this absolutely spectacular holiday around the world! Whoever you are, today is the best chance to get some experience in Irish culture, music, fairy tales, dances and beer pubs! St. Patrick’s Day is a day when everyone wears green, the day for every Irish-hearted person. Everything you always wanted to know about St. Patrick’s Day (but were afraid to ask) you can learn just know. Join us!

Until very recently, this holiday had been considered a religious feast only, in order to honor the patron saint of Ireland, called St. Patrick. Commemorating the day of his death, this date is also marked Patrick’s arrival of Christianity in Ireland in 1600s. Started as a public holiday in Ireland, it has been soon spread from Ireland around the world. Celebrating its religious feast, the huge Irish diaspora contributed to raising St. Patrick’s Day’s popularity growth. Today it is celebrated annually on March, 17, around the world, and is especially popular in the United States, Canada and Britain. The green-wearing celebrants occupy pubs and bars, demonstrate small shamrocks, and dance Irish stepdances or céilí. You hear? It’s definitely reel or hornpipe! One can’t understand how anyone could resist it. Colorful costumes and Irish hats, thematic parades, great atmosphere, beer parties – today everyone becomes Irish. Even river waters! It comes to a tradition of dyeing of the Chicago River, when volunteers hopped into motorboats splashed a powder into the river. Water acquires then an emerald green color.

Wherever you may stay in the world, whoever you are – if you consider yourselves to be a true friend of Ireland, so you can join this happy and joyful holiday. A great chance to wear green (even Russian ladies like wearing green and bizarre Irish hats today!), to dance a reel, to drink a dark Guinness or trying a true Irish stew, to learn more about leprechauns or fairies… why not? Going green today and feel the joy!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!
Sláinte!