What's St. Patrick's Day?

Every March 17 is a death anniversary of St. Patrick (original name: Maewyn) who spread Christianity in Ireland and now many countries celebrate that date to take credit for his activity.

When he was sixteen years old, he was abducted as a slave and during he was slave in Ireland, he strongly believed Christianity and thought his task was to spread Christianity to people.

People usually celebrate this date with green items and shamrock because Ireland where St. Patrick spread Christianity, is sometimes called “The Emerald Isle” because a lot of the country is a beautiful green, like the color of emeralds and St. Patrick used a shamrock like clover to explain the Christian message of Trinity (Tri+Unity) simply and shamrock becomes a symbol of Christianity.

Also, people usually drink Guinness, which was originally made in Ireland.

You can see the Chicago River colored in green in Chicago and the tower lighted up in green in New Zealand. Also, you can see many big parades in the U.K, the U.S., Canada, Australia etc where many immigrants from Ireland live.

Ireland - after reading

I’m interested in lots of places in Ireland.

They have big nature, different view of coast to Japan’s.

Since they have a long history, they have old castle, too.

They had been a battle for a long time because of religious problem, Protestant and Catholic.

It must be hard for them to insist and keep their faith during the time.

They are brave and amenability.

The battle is not over. It’s just lulled.

However, Ireland people naturally like peace and nature.

They have pub and entertainment like river dance.

They meant me that it’s worth to visit there. 

Posted for Yumi

Ireland

Image via Wikipedia

Image via Wikipedia

Activities: After reading
Q3. Etsuko visited Dublin for the weekend and send you this postcard. Circle the correct words.

Hello form Dublin

I arrived here on Friday and walked along the river through the center of town. I stopped at a pub and drank some of Ireland’s famous beer called Guinness. It was black and very strong! I looked at the Post Office, which is famous for Easter Monday, 1916.
Then I visited Trinity College to see Ireland’s oldest book, which is a thousand years old. It was very beautiful. And just near there I took a photo of the statue of Molly Malone selling fish from her wheelbarrow.
Tomorrow I am going to visit the house of Ireland’s President and walk in one of the biggest parks in Europe.
Dublin is a wonderful city!

See you soon.
Etsuko