St. Patrick's Day
By Courtney Pack
St. Patrick's Day is a celebrated holiday in Northern Ireland. We in the U.S celebrate it too, but we are not as festive as those Irish folks in Northern Ireland. We all know that on St. Patrick's Day we wear green and if we don't, we get pinched. This is all very interesting, but have you ever wondered where the festivities came from? According to , Timeanddate.com, St. Patrick's Day originated with one of the patron saints named (bet you can't guess it) St Patrick. It is said that he was captured by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave when he was a young adult. He soon escaped captivity and later returned to Ireland and worked in the north and west of the country. Legend says that St Patrick rid Ireland of so called "snakes". These metaphorical snakes refer to the druids or pagan worshipers of snake or serpent gods. Because of his heroic acts when he died on March 17th he was buried under Down Cathedral in Downpatrick, Ireland. So, if you ever wondered, or never wondered about how St. Patrick's Day originated you now know.
This was really, really good! I didn't know about a lot of this!! I couldn't really find anything wrong haha! I think that you could've said "We celebrate it here in the U.S. too" but what you said worked great as well!
ReplyDeleteYours was great!! the only suggestion I have is when you typed " He soon escaped captivity and later returned to Ireland and worked in the north and west of the country." maybe you should have split the sentence in two, for example: He soon escaped captivity and later returned to Ireland. There, he worked in the north and west of the country. Other than that, it was awesome!!
ReplyDeleteGreat job! the only thing I saw to fix was the same as Abbey's. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteGood writing. All I noticed was in the second paragraph that there there is no point afrer st and irish should be lowercase.
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