Sober St. Patrick s Day® Celebrates 10 Years with a Much Anticipated and Momentous Virtual Event Its 10th anniversary YouTube Premiere celebrating all things Irish virtually unites Irish diaspora and receives global accolades including Irish Echo s Arts and Culture Award.
Sober St Patrick s Day
BriefingWire.com, 5/05/2021 - On March 17, the world celebrated St Patrick s differently due to the pandemic. However art and culture was well preserved by the team at Sober St. Patrick s Day® who delivered a world class show for a global audience via YouTube Premiere.
SSPD Founder Bill Reilly is over the moon with the show, viewership, feedback, and accolades. We were thrilled to share our 10th anniversary celebration with a global audience â welcoming 1,500 viewers that day, and nearly 2,000 more since, said Mr. Reilly. Many of those viewers were in Ireland and the UK, in large part thanks to our host in Ireland Samantha
Odes to St. Patrick abound throughout Ireland, but few pair the saint s history and the Emerald Isle s beauty as splendidly as the 82-mile St. Patrick s Way. This long-distance pilgrim walk, known as Ireland s Camino, winds through a jade patchwork of Northern Ireland s most pristine parks, peaks, and coasts.
Walkers follow St. Patrick s footsteps for six to 10 days, a journey bookended by Armagh, Ireland s oldest city, and Downpatrick, the saint s final resting place. Breathtaking scenery from the Mourne Mountains, which inspired C.S. Lewis fantastical Narnia, to the unspoiled Dundrum Bay paints the way.
With 82 miles of history and scenery, one would think this trek is packed with tourists but that s not the case. The trail opened in 2012, and remains virtually crowd-free (even before the COVID-19 pandemic). Tim Campbell, director of The St. Patrick Centre in Downpatrick, said his team registered 1,600 unguided and 700 guided St. Patrick s Way walkers in 2020. (For scale,
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Welcome to March, the month to celebrate St. Patrick and everything Irish.
There are so many stories about the good saint and as many questions as to whether there was just one Patrick or many who traveled around to spread Christianity. If there was only one, he was very well-traveled and, like St. Bridgid, managed to get around exceedingly well in an era when there were no cars, trains or other such means of transportation.
ST. PATRICK
The St. Patrick who is celebrated this month was reportedly born in Britain around 400 AD. He was captured by bandits and taken to Ireland as a slave when he was 15. He escaped captivity and ultimately returned to Ireland to convert the pagans.