St. Patrick´s Day 2023

Match the numbers and dates to the facts in the opposite column.      

1. 17^th March                                    a. number of spectators in a parade
2. 5^th century                                    b. Kidnapped by Irish raiders
3. aged 16                                        c. shamrock have these
4. 6 years                                         d, the Irish potato famine
5. March 17^th 461                             e, first Irish parade in New York
6. 3 leaves                                        f. St Patrick's Day
7. 18^th century Ireland                      g. St Patrick died
8. 1840's                                          h. participants in the parade
9. 1762                                             i. in captivity
10. 2 hundred thousand                     j. St Patrick was born
11. 3 million                                        k. people started wearing shamrock

                                      

Now watch the video again answer the following questions.

1.   What nationality was St Patrick?

2.   What work did he dedicate his life to?

3.   What did Patrick do according to one myth?

4.   What did this symbolise?

5.   What did Patrick use the leaves of the shamrock for?

6.   What was the result of this?

7.   Where did the tradition of parades start?

8.   What did the Irish people do during the potato famine?

Nothern Ireland riots.

Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.

Crowds including children as young as 12 or 13 clashed across a concrete “peace wall” in west Belfast that separates a British loyalist Protestant neighbourhood from an Irish nationalist Catholic area. Police fired rubber bullets at the crowd, and nearby a city bus was hijacked and set on fire.

Ireland. A little bit of history and story too...

Listen to the recording and fill in the gaps. Note the use of numerous passive sentences in this text.

Saint Patrick's Day is an  celebration of the  Saint of Ireland. It is   on March 17, which is   to be the date of Saint Patrick's . This day is a national holiday in Ireland, but it is  by Irish communities and many   in countries around the . The festival  the time when Saint Patrick   Christianity to Ireland in the  . On this day, it is  to wear green or shamrocks. This is because, according to , Saint Patrick  a shamrock to explain the  idea of the Holy Trinity to Irish  .

Around the world there are  Saint Patrick's Day . In Dublin, there's a  parade that  nearly a million people and it's five days long. But the  parade is in New York City, which is  by over two million people. Saint Patrick's Day is also   for being a "drinking holiday". Drinking , especially Irish GuinnesGuinessGuinness, has become an important part of the . And the colour green is not only  on people's bodies. In Chicago, for example, the city authorities   the river green. And famous   around the world are   in green lighting. Many people also celebrate the day  green food and drinking green beer. 

In recent  , St Patrick's Day celebrations have been  , particularly for  association with drinking alcohol. And some people that the festivities have become too , and that the original idea of the festival has been  .

•I can't believe the ___________
Oh, I can't close ____________
And make it ______
How long?
How long must we _____________
How long, how long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight

•Broken __________  under children's ______
Bodies strewn across the dead end  _______
But I won't heed the ___________
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

•Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (alright)

•And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

•There's many lost, but tell me who has won

•And the battle's just begun

•The trench is dug within our hearts

(Chorus)

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
I'll, wipe your tears away (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
I'll, wipe your blood shot eyes (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

•And today the millions cry

•the real battle just begun

•And it's true we are immune

•We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

•When fact is fiction and TV reality

•(Sunday, Bloody Sunday) to claim the victory Jesus won

On Sunday Bloody Sunday, yeah
Sunday Bloody Sunday