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.

There was much interest recently in the idea that St Patrick might have had a wife, Sheelagh, and that her feast day was the day after his on March 18th. The "feminist angle" was exulted by some and ...

As the world prepares to mark St Patrick’s Day, a host of venues in Italy’s major cities have announced special events in ...

IrishCentral Contributor Kevin O'Hara recalls having to wear shamrock to school on St. Patrick's Day and showing it to the nuns.

Saint Patrick’s Day is around the corner, but there is another Irish Saint that you may not know too much about. The ...