St Patrick

St Patrick's Day 2023 will see the most ambitious ever engagement by Ireland with the world, with Ministers reaching out to governments and Irish communities on ...

St. Patrick's Day observes of the death of St. Patrick. He was the patron saint of Ireland. It takes place every year on Friday 17 March.

BBC News NI lists some of the biggest events on offer this year. Belfast. The city is hosting a 10-day festival (10-19 March) ...

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St. Patrick's Day has been around since the 10th century and originated in Ireland. But unlike the traditions that we have today, like leprechauns and ...

Although dressing up in green is fun, if you want to take it one step further, you can attend the St. Claudia Da Mata is a proud member of the Cat’s Eye View staff. In a survey sent out to the Becton Regional, sophomore Rose Padovano shared her tradition, “I usually wear green to celebrate and pinch the people who don’t. These parades are still alive and well and many people flock to these cities to witness the activities and theatrics that happen yearly. Many other cities and towns have smaller celebrations but one of the most notable is how Chicago dyes its river green to mark the holiday. Patrick’s Day has been around since the 10th century and originated in Ireland.

There's more to our patron saint than green sequins and pint-shaped hats. Here's our eight-part guide to St Patrick and our national holiday.

[St Patrick’s Festival](https://stpatricksfestival.ie/) is due in no small part to the organisers of another festival, [Seachtain na Gaeilge](https://snag.ie/), at the turn of the last century. [Irish College](https://www.irishcollege.org/) in Rome in the 1620s and is said to have supported the Irish Catholic uprising of 1641. St Patrick’s Day parades helped to create a sense of community and connection among the Irish diaspora and provided an opportunity for Irish communities to celebrate their heritage and culture. It saw St Patrick’s Day as an ideal opportunity to celebrate Irish identity and to revive interest in the Irish language and in Irish culture. But evidence emerged in recent years that a St Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17th, 1601, in a Spanish colony in Florida under the direction of an Irish priest, Ricardo Artur. St Patrick’s Day entered the calendar of the Catholic Church thanks in no small part to the work of the Waterford theologian and historian Luke Wadding. It is worthy to be chronicled that on a day when the festival was thus voluntarily kept in universal fashion, the House of Lords practically completed the passage of the Bill which is designed to make St Patrick’s Day a Bank Holiday. It was in this context that the idea of Irish cultural autonomy came to be a central pillar of Ireland’s independence movement. St Patrick is often presented in conversation with members of na Fianna, and his presence is interpreted as an allegory for the coming of Christianity. The stories and epic poems in the Fenian cycle tell the story of the Fianna, a roving band of heroes whose leader was Fionn Mac Cumhaill, the legendary Irish warrior. I was about 16 at the time”), and his [Epistola ad Milites Corotici](https://www.confessio.ie/etexts/epistola_latin#) (Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus), which is an exhortation for the return of Irish Christians kidnapped by Coroticus, a British chieftain. St Patrick is credited with introducing the shamrock as a symbol of the Holy Trinity; it has since become a symbol of Irish identity.