St Patrik’s day

To cel­e­brate St Patrik’s day I’ve added some of the Irish Whiskey Dis­til­leries and a few whiskies that are pro­duced in Ire­land. Check out the Coo­ley Dis­tillery, the Bush­mills Dis­tillery or the Con­nemara from 1992 bot­tle. You could also use the Ire­land tag to find more Irish dis­til­leries and whiskies that I’ve added.

Saint Patrick’s Day, col­lo­qui­ally St. Paddy’s Day or Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which cel­e­brates Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ire­land, and is gen­er­ally cel­e­brated on March 17.

The day is the national hol­i­day of Ire­land. It is a bank hol­i­day in North­ern Ire­land and a pub­lic hol­i­day in the Repub­lic of Ire­land and Montser­rat. In Canada, Great Britain, Aus­tralia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely cel­e­brated but is not an offi­cial holiday.

It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influ­ence of the Waterford-born Fran­cis­can scholar Luke Wadding[2] in the early part of the 17^th cen­tury, and is a holy day of oblig­a­tion for Roman Catholics in Ire­land. The feast day usu­ally falls dur­ing Lent; if it falls on a Fri­day of Lent (unless it is Good Fri­day), the oblig­a­tion to abstain from eat­ing meat can be lifted by the local bishop. The date of the feast is occa­sion­ally, yet con­tro­ver­sially, moved by church author­i­ties when March 17 falls dur­ing Holy Week; this hap­pened in 1940 when Saint Patrick’s Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coin­cid­ing with Palm Sun­day, and hap­pened again in 2008, hav­ing been observed on 15 March.