Article: St Patrick's Day boosts Irish baby names registered inMarch.

Article: Irish baby wouldn't miss parents' holiday in U.S.
The Boston Herald;  January 8, 1998 ;     490 words ... ... chance we'd probably get before the baby came," said Valerie. "On the sixth day of the holiday, Jamie came." With a St. Patrick's Day due date, Jamie Dixon was born in Boston, making his impatient debut in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Brigham ...

Article: ST. PATRICK MEANS MUCH TO STUDENT OF HIS ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 15, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Rosemary O'HaraStaff writer St. Patrick's Day Monday honors a tough, yet compassionate ... to the people who once enslaved him. St. Patrick should be honored on his day for the ... theirconversion," said McKay, who has studied St. Patrick's life. "He was very skillful in ...

Article: St. Patrick's holiness is forgotten under all that ...
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  March 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... people in the United States think of when St. Patrick's Day rolls around each March 17 ... Church said the religious feast day of St. Patrick has "unfortunately" been secularized ... have really jumped on it," he said. St. Patrick's Day has become "an excuse for celebrating ...

Article: St. Patrick's Day events have long tradition, ...
University Wire;  March 17, 2000 ;     667 words ... ... U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- St. Patrick's Day -- the day of shamrocks, beer ... Civilization. The boy, later known as St. Patrick, lived as a slave for six years in Ireland ... weather constantly plagued his life, wrote St. Patrick in his Confessio in 450 A.D. In the ...

Article: St. Patrick's Day filled with historical images and ...
University Wire;  March 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... know this saint by a more common name, St. Patrick, but many do not know his history, or the history of this holiday. St. Patrick earned his name early in his crusade ... Images of shamrocks, leprechauns and St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland are ...

Article: HALLMARK ST. PATRICK'S DAY CARDS EXPRESS LOOK, FEEL ...
PR Newswire;  February 15, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... make Irish eyes smile as part of their St. Patrick's Day activities. According to Hallmark ... Cards, Inc., a parade of 15 million St. Patrick's Day cards will be exchanged this year, making St. Patrick's Day a popular card-sending occasion ...

Article: COLUMN: St. Patrick's Day more than Guinness
University Wire;  March 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Italian, German, Polish or English, come St. Patrick's Day you'll be screaming "Kiss ... Americans have embraced the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, few know the true origins of ... the way Americans and Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day is completely different. Thousands ...