st patrick

Tagged Discussions

Interesting Facts About St. Patrick's Day

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 13 Mar 25

I am part Irish and I enjoy St. Patrick's Day and eating corned beef and cabbage. I also enjoy reading about how this holiday is celebrated in different locales. I am always looking for interesting facts regarding it and here are...

st patrick

america

irish

5 responses •

5 people

Snapshots from Downpatrick Head

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381810) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Apr 23

The collage shows photos I took at Downpatrick. I’ve done separate posts on the sea stack, the blowhole and the WWII relics. Here, upper left, you can see the lovely little white flowers that were very prolific in the area. Upper...

14 responses •

14 people

St. Paddy's Day

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 17 Mar 22

Green is worn on March 17th to celebrate, and show honor to the Emerald Isle (or Ireland). Saint Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious celebration that is actually the date of the death of Saint Patrick. Mass is held and there...

3 responses •

3 people

Not good at selfies

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169406) • United States 17 Mar 22

This is my St. Patrick's Day Shirt. It gets worn once a year, or less. Three of the websites I click on and answer surveys asked if I wear green for St. Patrick's Day and my answer is "if I remember". My grandmother would be 122...

8 responses •

9 people

100 years ago today: Ireland's Patron Saint

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 11 Mar 21

This was borrowed from the The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, March 11, 1921, Image 6 Found on ChroniclingAmerica.Loc.Gov I'm scratching my head as to why this can be found in a newsppaper...

st patrick

patron saint

ireland

5 responses •

6 people

Me in my heyday

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381810) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Mar 20

I found this photo the other day. It’s me in the first long dress I ever wore. It was made for me from a shimmery white fabric. I’m wearing my crystal necklace which I wrote about a while back. I was going to a St Patrick’s Day...

51 responses •

48 people

Snakes Alive!

pgn @pgntwo (22405) • Derry, Northern Ireland 17 Mar 18

Ireland has no native snakes. Legend has it that Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. As today, March 17th, is the day that people around the world celebrate St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd share one of many clips that...

11 responses •

12 people

Hat parade for St Patricks Day

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11253) • United Kingdom 16 Mar 17

Tomorrow it is St Patricks day. He is the fellow who rid Ireland of snakes.... At school we will be having a special St Patricks ( Irish ) themed lunch . The children have also been asked to make a hat at home and bring it in to...

2 responses •

2 people

It's a wonderful MONDAY wheeeeeeeee

rebelann1949 @rebelann (117199) • El Paso, Texas 6 Mar 17

Ally is winking atcha, she knows not everyone likes Mondays, if I worked I probably wouldn't either ....... buttt I don't so I'M LOVIN IT. A few minutes ago I thought I'd look up St Patrick and what he stood for, boy was I...

ally

winking

st patrick

9 responses •

8 people

Some Facts About March

Anna @LadyDuck (502190) • Italy 6 Mar 17

The second week of March has just started. The "meteorological" beginning of spring has occurred the first of March. The astronomical beginning of spring will occur on the 20th. (For those in the southern hemisphere it's the...

97 responses •

89 people

a little green leprechaun

Elizabeth @Poppylicious (11134) • United Kingdom 17 Mar 16

I don't get St Patrick's Day. The whole world becomes green and Irish, with little leprechauns bouncing around under shamrocks. Everybody drinks and wears something green and does little jigs amongst fiddle playing red...

3 responses •

3 people

St. Patrick Was Not Irish

RussTeed @RussTeed (1498) • United States 17 Mar 16

He was born in England in the year 390. Irish raiders invaded his home and at age 16, he was a slave of these invaders. Six years later, he escaped and went back to England. He later went back to Ireland to work in a...

5 responses •

4 people

St. Patrick's Day

Sakshi Dubey @PetitePanache (4) • India 16 Mar 15

A very happy St. Patrick's Day to each of you. 17th March holds a very important place in history as it commemorate the death anniversary of St. Patrick. It celebrates the advent of Christianity in Ireland. Most of us just take it...

2 responses

Celebrating St Patrick's Day

tehpau @tehpau (340) • Malaysia 18 Mar 13

Over here in Asia, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated as a day for drinking alcohol. It is a commercial celebration for bars and pubs to sell more alcohol. Who and where do people celebrate St. Patrick's Day in their homes or in the...

celebrate

holiday

st patrick

2 responses

Erin go Bragh...

teamrose @teamrose (1492) • United States 17 Mar 10

Which means Ireland forever! Happy St. Patricks Day! "Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because you words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because...

st patrick

1 response •

1 person

St Patrick - a Great ENGLISHMAN!

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 17 Mar 10

Today is the feast day of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland and without doubt one of the most widely celebrated saints. Many celebrants will throng the Irish bars of the World and use his name as a good excuse to be merry - a...

10 responses •

2 people

How will you clelbrate St. Patricks Day?

ljbinkop @ljbinkop (744) • United States 9 Mar 09

I am sure I'm not the only one out here who will be celebrating St. Patricks Day next week! My friends and I have a tradition every year to get together at a local pub and have drinks in the late afternoon. It's one of the few...

1 response

Moving the holiday

carpenter5 @carpenter5 (6782) • United States 23 Jul 07

I read an article this morning that said that Church Officials in Ireland had decided to move the St. Patrick's Day holiday up two days, celebrating March 15th, in order to avoid a conflict with Holy Day. This is the first time...

2 responses

can you enjoy st patrick's day with your family or is it a day to get drunk?

MABEL24 @MABEL24 (63) 17 Mar 07

you hear about the parades, and all this activities they have for st patrick's day.....but i think twice about taking my children cause all you see are drunk people on the street?

st patrick

St. Patrick - the story

CatEyes @CatEyes (2448) • United States 16 Mar 07

The history of St. Patrick. There are many different story lines, but this one seems to be the most accurate. Some 1,500 years ago a teenage boy from what is now Great Britain was kidnapped and enslaved by marauders from a...

st patrick

1 response