St. Patrick’s Day in the USA
March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day, which was originally the annual feast of the best known of Ireland’s patron saints1, and today a worldwide celebration devoted to all things Irish.
Over here in Ireland and the UK, we have been known to celebrate with vast quantities of Guinness. Over in the US however, they like large scale annual celebrations involving crazy things like temporarily dying the Chicago River green (which sadly hasn’t yet been captured on Google Earth2).
But in today’s post we’ll be looking at some of the places that St. Patrick has found a permanent home in the USA.
This is St Patrick’s park in Indiana, where they have created a 400 metre long homage to their namesake, entirely in the medium of trees. Which is apt, given how much of the colour green gets bandied around on the 17th of March.
We’ve visited the original Dublin already on Google Sightseeing, but there are at least nine cities called Dublin in the USA alone!
See for yourself: Dublin, California; Dublin, Georgia; Dublin, Indiana; Dublin, New Hampshire; Dublin, North Carolina; Dublin, Ohio; Dublin, Pennsylvania; Dublin, Texas; and Dublin, Virginia.
In New York City we find St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a spectacular Neo-Gothic cathedral in midtown Manhattan that has become ingrained in Hollywood movie history, after being featured in several movies including 2002’s Spider-Man.
So, where else has St. Patrick and the influence of Ireland made a lasting impression around the world?
Happy Paddy’s day!
Thanks to Chris R.
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Despite the fact that he was actually Welsh. ↩
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Unfortunately I can’t even find an image of it in the historical GE imagery. ↩
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