If you’re a typical American you believe Saint Patrick’s Day is all about drinking, four leaf clovers, and the color green, however, you would be wrong. In fact, there are many false beliefs and ideas about not only st. Patrick’s day but about the Irish themselves. so here are some insights and some truth about Saint Patrick and the people who loved him, something to think about not only in March but every day and every month of the year.
The old belief that Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. However, snakes aren’t indigenous to Ireland, and not part of the local fauna. It is, however, is where he escaped to a monastery. Patrick was enslaved by the tribes and the old Celtic Isles and was traded to another tribe. Is during this period that the Romans had invaded that part of the world and we’re taking slaves from that area, as well as inter-Tribal wars and slave trade happening as well. Patrick having escaped being a Slave and became a follower of the Christian faith.
Patrick was deeply devoted to his Christian ideals and God in Christ, and this drove him to not only spread the gospel throughout Ireland but also. He was a proponent of abolitionism, and also push for Lisa many slaves in Ireland both from the different Celtic tribes as well as the Romans. Some historians believe that he even inspired Irish abolitionists Daniel O’Connor, who strode to have Irish Catholics who were prisoners released, and at that and that O’Connell was an inspiration to Frederick Douglass who visited the islands as his preparing to move on behalf of slaves and America’s Civil War era.
Thanks to Media from different decades many believe that Ireland is primarily concerned with potatoes, leprechauns, and being drunk. However, these are ideas which Stray far from the truth. the idea of the Irish being obsessed with potatoes come from The Great Potato Famine that happened Between 1845 and 1849 cause of death of 1 million people and also almost that many people immigrated to the United States from Ireland. the total decline in population was pink 20 and 25%, due to the deaths and the immigration.
From a potato blight, that caused heavy damage to the potato crops, to the abuse and mismanagement of landlords and underhanded land acquisitions, primarily the poor and lower-middle-class farmers were the ones who suffered during this time. At the immigrated to America to the fact they were poor and quite often not the cleanest looking after the horrendous journey to America, and also to the fact that they were primarily Catholic, they’re not well received a welcomed by The Americans. they are in compared, unfortunately, next to the Scotch-Irish Protestants, who come before. The previous immigrants from that part of the world had to turn the positions pretty easily due to the high amount of partisans already in the north-east of that time, and also positions of power.
When the main concerns, and believed that their authority was actually the pope instead of just depressing at States, however, after years of hardship and prejudice did the Irish Catholic immigrants became citizens and then came into their at the ballot box.
Another false belief about the Irish is there perpetually drunk, however, that is due to mistaken interpretation of the Pup Culture of Ireland. Pubs on like American bars are typically concerned family establishments. I have a love of Sports, One companionship, and types bit with friends over a pint or two with wife and sometimes dinner together with the family. We Americans are catching on to this. Think about it if you have ever been to an Applebees, Red Robin, or Chili’s, you have been to the Americanized version of an Irish Pub. Yes they serve alcohol, yes they have screens on about sports, and yes they all serve food there.
So next time you prepared to think badly of the Irish are believe that wearing green and drinking yourself under the bar is the best way to celebrate st. Patrick’s Day think again about the people celebrated this day and how they become an important part of American culture. and besid es,Patrick’s color really wasn’t green, it was blue.