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St.Patrick’s Day 2025 is upon us, turning our attention to shamrocks, binge drinking, and the perceived luck of the Irish; famine, civil war, and subjugation by the English notwithstanding,The holiday is celebrated on March 17, the ordained feast day of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who may or may not have been a Welshman.

A former slave who became a priest, Patty, given name Maewyn Succat, had a lot of “luck” converting the Irish to Christianity.According to legend, Patty Cakes used the clover, otherwise known as the shamrock, as a visual aid to explain the concept of the holy trinity of father, son, and holy spirit to the pagan people.

It was an easy sell as the Celts already regarded four-leaf clovers as a powerful symbol of protection/luck that made faeries and gold-hoarding leprechauns visible to the holder and kept them free from evil, spiritual snares and venereal disease.The Catholic church established St.

Patrick’s feast day in 1631, in the dead center and dry heart of the season of Lent.The faithful really started leaning into the revelry in the early 18th century when they realized celebrating the saint was a kind of loophole that temporarily freed them from obligations of lenten sacrifice/abstinence.

A day off from being good if you will.The sentiment persists.In the words of Irish journalist and cultural critic John Waters who writes, “Drinking in Ireland is not simply a convivial pastime, it is a ritualistic alternative to real life, a spiritual placebo, a fumble for eternity, a longing for heaven, a thirst for return to the embrace of the Almighty.”Across the Atlantic, the first New York City St.

Patrick’s Day parade took place in 1762 but it wasn’t until the Irish Rebellion of 1798 that green became the preferred hue of the people.During the rebellion, the Brits wore red and the Irish wore green, a sartorial choice immortalized in the street ballad “The Wearing of the Green” and honored by celebrants of the sai...