The Wearing of the Green
Subtitle: A History of St. Patrick's Day
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 28, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415180047
First sentence: Here were thousands of persons congregated together peaceably and orderly, a considerable number of whom had on many former festivals of Saint Patrick deemed it an honour to celebrate it by the commission of the most odious and detestable properties - drunkenness, riot and disorder prevailed to an extent which was frightful to contemplate; but happily those exhibitions have passed away, never again we trust to be repeated.