Novel: We Once Had Wings

St. Patrick

March 16, 2016

The patron saint of Ireland is honored every March 17th coinciding with the date of his death in 461. As in We Once Had Wings, the festival has long been associated with public revelry and raucous behavior. Though for many, it is a green-clad nod to the heritage of their ancestors. Sean Keegan celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on the Meyer’s farmstead in New York several years after his last glimpse of Ireland by way of Queenstown Harbor. Queenstown, renamed Cobh in the late 1920s, was also the final port of call for the ill-fated RMS Titanic as she set out across the Atlantic.






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