The East Bay city of Dublin marked its 40th year commemorating a religious holiday that has become a reason to party.
DUBLIN -- Saint Patrick's Day is one of the most widely celebrated cultural events in the world and, in the Bay Area, the city of Dublin marked its 40th year commemorating a religious holiday that has become a reason to partyEvery year, thousands of people travel to Dublin to celebrate a piece of Celtic history that, it turns out, very few people know much about. The St. Patrick's Day festival in Dublin's Civic Center looks a lot like a county fair, except the kettle corn is green.
'It's known as the Irish outlook on life,' he said. 'But it should be everybody's outlook on life!'St. Patrick's Day actually commemorates the priest's death, on March 17 in the year 461.A young video blogger named Days, who was live-streaming the Dublin festival, admitted that it does seem like a peculiar holiday. 'I'll be honest, I don't know much about St. Patrick,' he said, shrugging.
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