By Alejandra Fabela Martinez
Ireland is an island
located in Europe. More than the ninety percent of the Irish are Catholic. The
influence of the religion in topics like divorce, abortion, the control of
birthrate and social topics is very important. The duration of this festival is
five days.
The music and the
dances are an important tradition of this country. Also there is a very
important day “St Patrick´s day”. It´s a festival celebrated on March 17th.
Since 1903, this day was made a public and official day in Ireland; Nowadays St
Patrick is the most famous saint in the entire world. For this day people have
to wear green cloths and is very common to eat dishes with cabbage and Irish
beverages.
St Patrick was a missioner
and a preacher; he is considered the introductory of the religion to the
island.
There are four
principal components of this festival, the Leprechaun, the beer, the clover and
St Patrick. Leprechaun is the goblin and is a typical character of the Irish
mythology.
On March 17th,
people don´t eat meat, but the traditional dish is the corn beef, that is raw
meat. Also the beer is the most popular beverage.
Bands of bagpipes are
the most popular for the festival, Celt music is the official hymn of this
party. Instruments like violin, Irish bagpipes, flutes tin whistle and the
“bodhran” or drum. The traditional dance
to accompanist the music is the Irish “step dance”; a unique dance with
difficult leg movements while the body is static.
St Patrick’s Day is
one of the most important traditions in Ireland, when Irish celebrated during
five days full of green and beer, also the bagpipes and the step dance are
protagonist of the party, but the mean reason of this party is to celebrate
Saint Patrick and all the Catholics and no Catholics celebrated it.
It is not only for
the religion. It is because this tradition with special characteristics of
Irish people is a big part of their Culture and that things made Ireland unique,
and different to other countries.
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