St. Patrick - Patron Saint of Ireland

Click here to go to the St. Patrick Scoilnet homepage for lots of activities.





Encyclopaedia Britannica School Edition page on St. Patrick.
Spotlight on St. Patrick's Day by Encyclopaedia Britannica.









We like the BBC Interactive Book of Facts website.
RTÉ Archives on St. Patrick's Day - watch videos here.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh

Today we celebrated St. Patrick's Day, the Patron Saint of Ireland.

We made snakes at school but we learned that in fact there never were snakes in Ireland, so there were in fact no snakes for St. Patrick to banish. This information was obtained from naturalist Nigel Monaghan, keeper of natural history at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, who has searched extensively through Irish fossil collections and records.

  

For more information on St. Patrick and the banishing of snakes click here.