Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick ...

St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) is for the most part a secular affair. It’s a ritual tradition and celebration of drink and music, the traces of which date back to the 10th Century.

Comparatively speaking, the fifth century CE is not an era from which there is much information outside the failing Roman ...

Everyone knows about St Patrick – the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland, defeated fierce druids in contests of magic and used the shamrock to explain the Christian Trinity to the pagan Irish. It ...

If the Patrick of legend is implacable and authoritative, the historical Patrick was a fascinatingly flawed man who was mired ...

Ireland’s patron saint and national holiday will be celebrated in style at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park on Sunday March 16.

he had terms of imprisonment and generally upset local chieftains and druids but he always won his freedom, by presenting his captors with gifts. For 20 years, St. Patrick traveled around ...

Virtuoso musician Tim Edey joins awe-inspiring singer Iarla Ó Lionáird for a special gig from 5.30pm as part of St Patrick’s weekend ... Presented by Druid and directed by Garry Hynes, Three ...

Eleven German travel agents, who are all specialists in business travel and members of a travel agency network called ...