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From: Edward Andrews <>
Subject: Re: St. Patrick's Day
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:33:26 +0000

wrote:
>
> I realize this may be a stupid question, but was/is St. Patrick's Day
> celebrated in Ulster as well as the rest of Ireland? Among Protestants as
> well as Catholics?
>
> Thanks, and pardon the ignorance.

Not really, but then until recently it wasn't celebrated much in the
Republic.

In Belfast the School's Cup rugby match was played, and that was that.

When I was in Dublin in the late 1960s it was still a fast day, and the
pubs were closed.

Don't know what its like now
Edward Andrews
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