Historians agree that St Patrick was born in 373 AD in one of two possible locations - Dumbarton in Scotland or on the west ...

There are many myths associated with St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. But Patrick’s own writings and early ...

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

The 17 of March is St Patrick’s Day. Who was St Patrick and why is he the patron saint of Ireland? This is the story ...

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 ...

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

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to ...

Where did the idea that the Atlanteans migrated from Atlantis to Europe come from, and is there any factual basis to this ...

In his writing, Patrick recounts how he was captured by raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Six years later, he ...

Between history, spirituality and legend, the figure of Saint Patrick, who has become a key element of a tormented Irish ...

St. Patrick's Day, the day so many adults excitedly wake up to with two things on their mind: dusting off a green article of ...