St Piran's Day Saint Piran's Flag is also seen flying throughout Cornwall on this day. Parades and celebrations take place in a number of towns and cities including: In 2006 Cornish MP Dan Rogerson asked the government to make 5 March a public holiday in Cornwall to recognise St Piran's Day celebrations. Some council workers in Bodmin were granted the holiday in 2006, and from 2009 Penzance Town Council offered its employees a St Piran's Day Holiday following a campaign by the Celtic League. A total of nine town and city councils across Cornwall have given their staff the day off. There have
TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS "St Patrick" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906. She was built by John Brown and Company for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS "St George" and TrSS "St David". From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War. On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS "St David" in Fishguard harbour. She was re-engined in 1926 and caught fire on 7