St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

St. Patrick's Day, marked on March 17th, is an alive and kicking festival commemorating Ireland's patron saint and reflecting ...

Wearing green is one of the most important aspects of Irish culture and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but not everyone knows ...

The holiday has been celebrated in Ireland for over a thousand years in observance of Saint Patrick, who introduced ...

Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name ...

The mythical plant, along with the color green, later became a symbol of Ireland's push for independence from British rule. It has since come to represent the country as a whole. Though people in ...

However, blue still plays a symbolic role in Ireland: Since 1945, the flag representing the president of Ireland has a gold harp with a dark blue background – the color known as St. Patrick’s ...