Why Do We Celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

St. Patrick's Day Activities

1. Be Irish for the day

   Get your green on! Everyone is an honorary Irish lad or lass on St. Patrick’s Day, so just go with it. Today, everyone looks stunning in green.

2. Go watch a parade 

   The biggest party on St. Patrick’s Day by far is always the parade because that is how early Irish immigrants first celebrated their patron saint in America: with a parade. It’s a family affair with glitter, glamour, fiddlers and cloggers, and lots and lots of green. A robust St. Patrick’s Day parade gets the party started and the day only gets better from there.

3. Hunt for leprechauns

   Legend has it that if you catch a leprechaun, the little fella has to surrender his pot of gold to you. So why not grab a couple of butterfly or fishing nets and take your wee lads and lasses out for a leprechaun hunt and bring home the gold. But be ye forewarned. Leprechauns are wickedly clever creatures known to trick their captors out of receiving the gold. Your best bet is to just keep quiet, not answer any questions the leprechaun may ask you, and take your newfound fortune and go. Quickly. Good luck.

Why We Love St. Patrick's Day

1. Today everyone is Irish

   Regardless of your birth heritage, today everyone is welcome to identify as Irish, and the Irish are just fine with that. If not out of a sense of awe at the history and survival of the Irish diaspora in America during the 1800s, then be Irish today as part of the lively spirit, smiling eyes and hearty laughter that is everywhere on St. Patrick’s Day.

2. Leprechauns

   Who doesn’t love a holiday that includes wee little folk dressed in odd clothing with magical powers and a pot of gold hidden at the end of every rainbow?  What do leprechauns have to do with St. Patrick or St. Patrick’s Day? Nothing that we know of, but somehow Ireland’s fabled fairies with magical powers made their clever little way into the party and never left. Irish Celtic legend claims leprechauns are cranky souls responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies, which may account for the big buckles on their tiny little shoes. But we think leprechauns just like the bling of a big shiny shoe buckle.

3. Going green

   Green is hip. Green is cool. Everyone wants to be green or go green these days. St. Patrick’s Day is the greenest day of the entire year. It’s the one day when we can deck ourselves head to toe in tacky green garb of all shades of green, paint our nails green, dye our hair green, and no one bats an eye. Do this on any other day and people will avoid you like the green plague.

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Unless you’ve been living under the Blarney Stone you already know that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. It’s the one day each year that everyone and anyone calls themselves Irish – if not by birthright, then in spirit. If you have been living under the Blarney Stone, lucky you! We bet you can share a thing or two about how a religious feast day commemorating the famed Irish patron saint who brought Christianity to Ireland ended up being a day celebrated almost globally, usually involving copious amounts of green beer and whisky shooters.

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in more countries around the world than any other single-day national festival, largely due to America’s enthusiasm for what many consider a holiday, although it is not an official holiday in America. 

Parades are the heartbeat of St. Patrick Day festivities in America. This is not surprising, since the first parade held in St. Patrick’s honor took place in America, not Ireland, in 1601 in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. And the first actual St. Patrick’s Day parade also took place in America, in 1737, although it was pretty much just a stroll down the middle of a street in Boston by a few Irish Protestants to honor the patron saint of their motherland. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City was held in 1762, fourteen years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and was organized by Irish troops serving in British colonies. Today the world’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebration is the annual parade in New York City, where more than two million spectators line the parade route, all claiming to be Irish, at least for the day.

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