School: Ardgroom (roll number 12261)
- Location:
- Ardgroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Hurdail
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- We will have a holiday next Thursday in honour of Saint Patrick. It is a great feast-day in Ireland because he was the patron Saint of Ireland. It will be the seventeenth day of March, because we are told that it was on that day St Patrick died long ago. The schools, the shops and the banks are closed on that day,
All the people of Ireland wear shamrock, green dresses and green ribbons on St Patrick's day. Before the people go to mass on that day they burn a sally stick in the fire. When it is half burned they take it our and make the sign of the cross on their shoulder three times.
The people of Ireland who are in foreign countries get the shamrock from home for Saint Patrick's day. It is a feast day in every country, but it is in Ireland only that it is a holiday.
