SpookyCash affiliates have just been sent our new Saint Patty's promo content and a reminder of our last shamrock-themed gallery. I also thought I would re-share some fun facts about the holiday again.
Much as I am entertained by green beer and getting tipsy in the street, I thought I would pass along these fun factoids to know and share:
(1) The holiday as really celebrated today started in the Americas.
(2) Use of the shamrock was added nearly a thousand years after the death of the saint, as a co-option of Pagan ritual.
(3) Leprechauns became associated with the holiday largely due to the release of a 1950's Disney movie about them.
(4) Pubs in Ireland were required to be closed on the religious holiday until the 1970's.
(5) The original color associated with the holiday was blue.
