Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with GUINNESS
Celebrate the first St Patrick’s Day of the new decade in style by trying a Guinness Black Velvet cocktail or impress your mates down the pub with some St Patrick’s Day facts & stats, plus tips on how to enjoy the perfect pint of Guinness!
St Pat’s facts
*Over 5 million pints of Guinness are sold in the UK each year on St. Patrick’s Day
*Over 13 million pints of Guinness are raised on St. Patrick’s Day across the globe, which brings more than 150 pints to life every second
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St. Patrick’s Day 2010
Wednesday 17th March 2010 – St Patricks Day arrives!
Here are a few of the Paddy’s Day celebrations being held in and near Leeds, West Yorkshire UK:
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Saint George’s Day – 23rd April
Saint George, the patron saint of England, is also a romantic figure of medieval romance and legends: a chivalrous knight, a devout martyr and most famously, a heroic slayer of dragons.
Despite his ubiquitous presence in churches, paintings, frescoes and English literature, St. George himself is an unlikely choice for patron saint of England as he is celebrated in many nations across the world - he wasn’t English and probably never even visited the country.
Nevertheless,
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Saint Patrick’s Day: 17 March 2010
To be sure, there’s not many saints’ days on the liturgical calendar that offer such an opportunity to make merry, and on Saint Patrick’s Day you’ll find roughly 70 million Irish emigrants and their descendants uniting in cities across the world to celebrate the notion of being Irish.
Of course there’ll be no festivity as great as the one in the Emerald Isle itself, where shamrocks will be worn on lapels
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