one doesn't have to go very far in modern-day Ireland to find a church, but in the saint’s time, Patrick would have had to use the abundant wells and streams that populated the Irish countryside ...

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celebrating one of Ireland’s patron saints,” said Kristen Gill, the former director of development at the Irish American Cultural Institute. “People might start the day by going to church.

Growing up as an Irish woman, I often wondered why a Romano-British man became Ireland’s enduring global ... exemplifying the church and state's iron grip on women's bodily autonomy.

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh is the Primate of All Ireland and sent a message marking the holiday while visiting New York – which has a historical Irish Catholic population and also has ...