St .Patrick's Day is celebrated very differently in America than in Ireland. Jack McGarry, founder of the legendary Irish bar The Dead Rabbit, helps to dispel some of the most common myths around the holiday.
Christopher Friedmann is an award-winning journalist and has spent over a decade in journalism covering everything from wine & spirits to travel to music, finance, and technology.As it turns out, we, us, Americans, and basically everyone else, has got Saint Patrick's Day all wrong.
“The parade started in America,” notes McGarry. “When I was a kid, it was not dissimilar to the way that you guys celebrate Thanksgiving. At the time, it was a day with the family.” The Catholic church never formally canonized St. Patrick because there was no formal canonization process during the first millennium. Nonetheless, he’s been venerated as a saint in Ireland since the seventh century.“The original color of St. Patrick's is blue,” says McGarry. “So, it's pretty funny when you see the heavy association with green for St. Patrick. It wasn't his co-founding color because Erin’s found colors were blue and gold.
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