Mathew St. Patrick Mathew St. Patrick Mathew St. Patrick (Born March 17, 1968) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Keith Charles on the HBO drama television series "Six Feet Under". Mathew was born and raised in Philadelphia, and was on the varsity track team of Olney High School, but graduated in 1986 from Scotland School for Veterans' Children in Scotland, Pennsylvania, the last remaining school for children of military veterans in the United States. After graduating from high school, he lived in New York and then for eight years in Chicago, where he worked as a delivery salesman for
Saint Patrick's Day the Irish Catholic Confederation. Green ribbons and shamrocks have been worn on St Patrick's Day since at least the 1680s. The Friendly Brothers of St Patrick, an Irish fraternity founded in about 1750, adopted green as its colour. However, when the Order of St. Patrick—an Anglo-Irish chivalric order—was founded in 1783 it adopted blue as its colour, which led to blue being associated with St Patrick. During the 1790s, green would become associated with Irish nationalism, due to its use by the United Irishmen. This was a republican organisation—led mostly by Protestants but with many Catholic members—who launched a rebellion