If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global ...
The Irish community of Springfield was recognized Monday morning in front of City Hall with the city’s annual flag-raising.
St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.
Organizers said the world-renowned parade has annually drawn about 2 million spectators with 150,000 participants.
Erin Go Bragh! All hail, New York City’s 264th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade held on Monday, March 17. It’s the oldest and ...
The city of Aurora will hold its St. Patrick’s Parade and Irish flag-raising ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday in downtown Aurora. The event “honoring the legacy of the parade’s namesake ...
The city of Springfield honored St. Patrick’s Day with a special flag raising and ceremony on the front steps of City Hall.
Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name Maewyn Succat, but historians do not agree on this. History: Why do we ...
Neither green nor orange were originally associated with St. Patrick. The 5th-century missionary and bishop actually sported sky blue and even had a light blue shade named after him. It wasn’t until ...
the flag representing the president of Ireland has a gold harp with a dark blue background – the color known as St. Patrick’s blue. COMET officers seize $500,000 worth of illegal drugs and ...