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This “fact” isn’t a fact. Pubs aren’t anywhere near closed in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day. It’s probably the busiest day of the year for them.
by GeneralTspoon 5y ago
This “fact” isn’t a fact. Pubs aren’t anywhere near closed in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day.
It’s probably the busiest day of the year for them.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoSo, this was true until the 30's or so. So it's possible that this was passed down the generations as fact. It's not true any more though.
- basisword 5y agoOnly a guess but this would likely have been because St. Patrick’s Day is a “holy day”. People attend church (lots still do although in the last couple of decades it’s declined massively) and closing pubs would be in line with how some other “holy days” are treated. An example of this is Easter in Northern Ireland. There are still some relatively strict licensing laws over the Easter weekend (although these are about to modernise) with pubs shit for large parts of it.