Empire: World History · 2026-08-09 · 53 min · 10,755 words

385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3)

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Seventeenth of March. Each and every year the Irish diaspora celebrates St Patrick's Day You know this, the Chicago River is dyed green, tourists flock to Dublin from all over the world. Uh. What is the history of the real

Patrick. Now the traditional story. of Ireland's patron saint is that sometimes around the year four three two a man walked into Ireland. He'd been there before. As a slave. And it had taken him years to escape. Now he was back to convert the people of the silent, but how much truth is there?

in that origin story. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand and me. William? Dirmful. In today's episode of Empire.

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