Irish National Costums
Road stadium are considered high points of the sporting year. Enthusiasts of horse racing
flock to the Galway Races in the summer and early fall.
Holidays and Celebrations
The Irish celebrate New Year's Day on 1 January. Saint Patrick's Day on 17 March is a
national holiday and is marked by parades, shamrock decorations, and sometimes the
wearing of clothing that is green (the national color). Legend has it that resourceful Saint
Patrick made use of the three-lobed shamrock as a diagram to explain the Holy Trinity to
his uneducated congregation. However, the pre-Christian Irish had long associated the
shamrock with Trefulngid Tre-eochair ("The Triple Bearer of the Triple Key"), the
spring fertility god manifestation, whose symbol can be a shamrock or three legs
spiraling together (as seen on the flag of the Isle of Man).
The Irish celebrate Easter, and Easter Monday is a public holiday. Christmas is
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