Hail Glorious St. Patrick

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit - Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

St Patrick.

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He brought Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century and used the shamrock to explain the holy trinity to the pagan people.

It is our national feast day and as it usually rains, it is believed to " wet the shamrock".  The "wearing of the green" is a tradition along with wearing a sprig of shamrock on one's lapel.

Ireland - beautiful and green.

Frank Patterson singing Hail Glorious St Patrick. The hymn we all learned at school.  It still evokes lovely happy memories when I hear it on this special day.

A bunch of Shamrock.


The first Irish postage stamp - 2p or tuppence!

The Irish pound note which was in circulation for fifty years.

The beautiful painting of Lady Hazel Lavery as Kathleen Ní Houlihán (1928) which hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. Lady Lavery was the wife of Irish painter, Sir John Lavery, (1956-1941). An engraving of the painting appeared on the Irish banknotes, as seen above.

"Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit.

Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin