St Patrick’s Day celebrations in nineteenth-century Trinidad were perhaps more formal than today’s festivities, but hangovers are timeless! According to letters written by Irishman John Black and his daughter Adele, Black took ‘a large dose of magnesia to clear his head’ on 18 March 1814, while his son-in-law John Shine was utterly ‘bewildered’ after the previous evening’s ‘many toasts’. The men had attended an annual dinner with ‘all the Irishmen’ of Port of Spain and according to Adele ‘their heads pay for it the next day.’ Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Irish diaspora, these Trinidadians developed their own traditions and continued to celebrate their Irish identity. A quick scan of the historiography of St. Patrick’s Day demonstrates how important the day is, across the religious divide, to Irish people outside Ireland. Click the links for some interesting reading about St Patrick’s Day in
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick's Day
St Patrick’s Day celebrations in nineteenth-century Trinidad were perhaps more formal than today’s festivities, but hangovers are timeless! According to letters written by Irishman John Black and his daughter Adele, Black took ‘a large dose of magnesia to clear his head’ on 18 March 1814, while his son-in-law John Shine was utterly ‘bewildered’ after the previous evening’s ‘many toasts’. The men had attended an annual dinner with ‘all the Irishmen’ of Port of Spain and according to Adele ‘their heads pay for it the next day.’ Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Irish diaspora, these Trinidadians developed their own traditions and continued to celebrate their Irish identity. A quick scan of the historiography of St. Patrick’s Day demonstrates how important the day is, across the religious divide, to Irish people outside Ireland. Click the links for some interesting reading about St Patrick’s Day in