Thank Fathom it’s Friday

The Wild Rover

Florian Baier 15 March 2019|

Sunday marks the anniversary of St Patrick’s death, the foremost patron saint of Ireland, now better known as St Patrick’s Day. While some still use the occasion to commemorate the missionary St Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, it has become a celebration of Irish culture and heritage. The holiday’s popularity has spread far past the Emerald Isle and even beyond the Earth — St Patrick’s Day is also celebrated on the International Space Station. It’s not just the popularity of Irishness that has grown enormously over the years, so has the Irish economy. The following chart shows how GDP per capita as a share