As parades took place across the globe yesterday to mark St. Patrick’s Day, countries across the Middle East celebrated Irish contributions to music, culture and resistance to British colonial rule. The small Gaelic nation, which has a long history of colonial rule by the British empire, shares many links of solidarity with organisations in Palestine and among the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. To mark the day, Hirbawi – Palestine’s last producer of traditional Palestinian headscarves – made a new design called the “Saoirse Kufiya”, remembering decades of shared struggle a…