DID YOU KNOW: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day Goes Back 1500 Years

UL History professor Bob Carriker joins us on Thursdays for a fun take on history. This week he told us about the earliest days of celebrating St. Patrick's Day. It goes back more than 1500.

From History.com:

 

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated annually on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast–on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.