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  • Spring Traditions and Celebrations: The Past, The Present and the Future of Farming

    Spring Traditions and Celebrations: The Past, The Present and the Future of Farming

    The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Introduction Eleanor Parker writes in her book, Winters in the World, that “in Anglo-Saxon poetry winter is often imagined as a season when the earth and human beings are imprisoned, kept captive by the ‘fetters of the frost’. Naturally enough, then, spring is […]

  • Every St Patrick’s Day, Everywhere, All at Once

    Every St Patrick’s Day, Everywhere, All at Once

    Patrick banishing the snakesMarch 17 is traditionally St Patrick’s Day, a day when ‘Irishness’ is celebrated all over the world. This date is traditionally held to be the date of the death of St Patrick  (c. 385 – c. 461), the patron saint of Ireland. It is marked by parades through the main cities and towns of […]

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