St. Patrick's Day

Temple Bar on St. Patrick’s Day is chaotic. There’s no two ways about it.  However, while there are many other great ways to spend St. Patrick’s Day …

Wearing orange on St. Patrick’s Day isn’t overly common practice at most parades or celebrations. While the vast majority of people wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, …

A common way to say “Happy St. Patrick’s Day” in Irish is “Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit,” pronounced “Lah fay-luh Paw-drig sun-uh gwitch.” That’s if …

One of the most surprising facts about St. Patrick? He wasn’t Irish! Hard to believe? Just wait – there’s plenty more where that came from… …

There’s some excellent children’s St. Patrick’s Day books. There’s some awful ones, too. These books tend to fall into one of two categories: Books that …

We get asked what was the original color associated with St. Patrick a fair bit in the lead up to the ‘big day’. The answer …

Who was St. Patrick? Was he really British?! What happened with the pirates?! In the lead up to St. Patrick’s Day, we’re asked about the …

As a child growing up in Ireland, the legend of St. Patrick played a big part in many of my bed time stories. Tales of …

Did St. Patrick banish the snakes from Ireland? No. He didn’t.  Despite many of us growing up on the St. Patrick snakes legend, it is …