Fionn Davenport gets philosophical (has a rant?) in Dublin…
I don’t like parades, and I couldn’t care less about floats or fireworks. Watching Dublin’s St Patrick’s Parade I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell we were all doing. What is St Patrick’s Day really all about?
We’re not celebrating an event in Irish history - nothing tidy like a day of independence or the birth or death of a founding father. We’re not celebrating St Patrick himself - a Welshman who may not have existed at all. Nor are we celebrating Christianity or anything to do with religion - we do plenty of that at Easter and Christmas.
So what’s it all about? Irishness? What the hell is that? Are we celebrating the ‘qualities’ that define us as Irish? If so, What the hell are they? Friendliness, loving a laugh, the craic? Jesus Christ, I hope not. We are, after […]
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