St Patrick’s Day
The worldwide celebration of Ireland’s patron saint, St Patrick, has almost always been held on the 17th of March. This year, due to Easter arriving unusually early, the Catholic Church decided to move St Patrick’s day so that it didn’t take place during “holy week”.
This year’s celebrations were moved to the 15th of March, meaning that in time-honoured Google Sightseeing tradition (even when taking into account our unique time-zone arrangements), we’ve totally missed it1.
Regardless, here is the shamrock-shaped maze near Dublin airport which we had lined up for today.
However for once we’re not alone - although many cities did spend Saturday celebrating with parades, green river dye and large quantities of Guinness - New York and Dublin steadfastly refused to budge, and their celebrations will also take place today!
Luckily March the 17th doesn’t again fall in holy week until 2160, so none of us will have to worry about it ever again.
Thanks to Fergal ohagan.
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Google Maps covered all the options - celebrating for the whole weekend by dressing up the street view guy as a little leprechaun. ↩
Well I’m not Catholic, so ignoring all that date stuff my church’s calendar said St Patrick’s day is today. Do you think they’ll move St George’s Day if that’s over Easter? I never noticed them do that ever.
Google Earth still hasn’t gotten good pictures of Downpatrick where he’s buried. As a kid I lived about a 20 minute drive from there.
Seems like Street View is celebrating St. Patrick today, too
Ah, ehm… I missed the note
That maze is only around the corner from me and I never knew it was there…
With the previous post still in mind, we are now of course wondering what you have lined up for Vitalis of Assisi Day, the patron saint for the genitals.
Our sleepy little wicklow village celebrated paddys day yesterday, the pipe band woke me up at midday lol
hey, st. patrciks day was yesterday, but streetview is still celebrating it! In what time zone are they?