{"id":3864,"date":"2025-03-17T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:18:42","slug":"st-patricks-day-17-march-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-17-march-4\/","title":{"rendered":"St Patrick\u2019s Day (17 March)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Post submitted by Ella, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3865\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3865 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/03\/st-patricks-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from BBC: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/35831743<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>St Patrick\u2019s Day is named after St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who was a Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland during the fifth century. It is celebrated each year on 17 March, the day on which Patrick supposedly died. It was originally a religious holiday but has since become a celebration of Irish culture.<\/p>\n<p>Green is the colour associated with the celebrations \u2013 Ireland is an island often known as the Emerald Isle for its lush green landscape. However, St Patrick was actually associated with the colour blue and ancient Irish flags actually feature this colour. Green therefore only became the colour of St Patrick\u2019s Day in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century when the shamrock became the national symbol of Ireland. From then on, the colour green has stuck!<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, people attend parades of traditional Irish dancers and musicians. One of the traditions on St Patrick\u2019s Day stems from Irish folklore which states that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns. So, if you don\u2019t wear green, you\u2019re at risk of being pinched by a leprechaun! The colour is also a symbol of good luck and is tied to Irish ancestry. This means you\u2019ll often see green decorations around, and if you\u2019re in Illinois you\u2019ll notice that the Chicago River gets dyed green for the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post submitted by Ella, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors St Patrick\u2019s Day is named after St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who was a Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland during the fifth century. It is celebrated each year on 17 March, the day on which Patrick supposedly died. It was originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-17-march-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St Patrick\u2019s Day (17 March)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":3865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration","category-student-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}