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📖 Ancient Restoration Jonathan Swift in 1712 notes that Parliament in London is closed for St Patrick's Day & saw so many crosses in the Mall he thought all the world Irish! Thomas Dingley on tour in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1681 - records wearing of green, shamrock, scenes of…

The medieval ruins of Turlough Abbey, Co Mayo. St Patrick began his ministry here in the year 441 AD.