Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day stories: 6 news summaries

10 Seriously Unlucky Irish Accents in Film

Sean Connery and Julia Roberts make
the list—twice

Mar 17, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Irish Central ranks the worst Irish accents to hit the big screen.
  • Sean Connery, "the gold standard to judge against all other bad Irish accents," takes the No. 1 and 2 spots, for Darby O'Gill and the Little People in 1959
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
film • Julia Roberts • Ireland • Sean Connery • St. Patrick's Day • movies • Irish accent

 White House 
 Greens Fountains 
 for St. Pat's 

First Lady takes a page from her native Chicago

Mar 17, 09 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fountains on the White House lawns run green today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the Chicago Tribune reports. The dye was suggested by the First Lady, perhaps to make Pennsylvania Ave a bit more like her native Chicago, which dyes the Chicago River green to mark the holiday.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • White House • St. Patrick's Day • Irish • Irish Americans • President Obama


 Nervous 
 N. Ireland 
 Cancels 
 St. Paddy's 
 Parade 

Festivities called off in town where policeman was killed

Mar 17, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A St. Patrick’s Day parade set for today in Northern Ireland was canceled amid growing tensions, reports the Times of London. Loyalist leaders have been nervous about reprisals in Lurgan, where a police officer was shot dead by an Irish republican paramilitary last week. Graffiti in a loyalist area... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • police • Ireland • St. Patrick's Day • Real IRA • Continuity IRA • Irish Republican Army

Campus Tries
to Keep Booze Out of Class

St. Patty's crackdown turns profs into bouncers at Illinois

Mar 5, 09 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - University of Illinois officials will search students’ backpacks and confiscate containers they suspect might contain alcohol during tomorrow’s “Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day,” the Chicago Tribune reports. Students typically pack campus bars for green beer as early as 8am, and some take drinks to class. “It... More »

MORE ABOUT:
alcohol • University of Illinois • drinking • Illinois • college student • St. Patrick's Day

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

 Irked Irish Bar Bans 'Danny Boy' 

St. Paddy's Day revelers will have to do their crooning elsewhere...

Mar 17, 08 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - That annual Guinness-fueled serenade led by green-hat-and-bead-clad Yanks wearing "Kiss me, I'm Irish" pins won't be heard at Foley's Pub in New York today; barkeep Shaun Clancy has banned the maudlin lyrics of "Danny Boy" during the month of March, and especially on St. Patrick's Day. "Everybody... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Ireland • ban • St. Patrick's Day • Danny Boy • Irish Americans • Irish diaspora • Shaun Clancy • Foley's New York Bar & Restaurant • karaoke

St. Patty's, Holy Week Collide

Some Irish organizations reschedule parades from Palm Sunday; others stand firm

Feb 21, 08 4:14 PM CST
(Newser) - This year’s calendar sees St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) falling during the week preceding Easter, which has caused most organizers to move parades forward to avoid forcing Irish Catholics to choose between heritage and the church's Holy Week, the Boston Globe reports. South Boston planners, however, refused to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Boston • Holy Week • St. Patrick's Day • Palm Sunday • Irish Catholicism • Irish Catholics

6 Stories


from our news partners