St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland celebrated both as a religious and secular festival in Ireland and outside has become a matter of great interest for all the holidayers

St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland celebrates Saint Patrick's annual feast day who was one of the patron saints of Ireland. The St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland is a major tourist attraction in Ireland which is observed on the 17th of March. This is the day when Saint Patrick was believed to have died.

Saint Patrick's Day is a major festival in the calendar of Ireland since it is a national holiday. In Northern Ireland the festival is on the other hand a bank holiday and in the Republic of Ireland it is counted as a public holiday. Even in Canada, Britain, the United States and Australia, New Zealand the festival is a time for fantastic celebrations. In the Roman Catholic Church it became a feast day from the 17th century. The celebration has a unique concept. It is said that everything should be in green that day where both Christians as well as non Christians wear green or orange. All those who assemble eat Irish food and drinks.

St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland is also associated with a parade which is part of a five day festival which is seen by 500,000 people. Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Cork, Kilkenny, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford are some of the popular cities which hold this parade .It is a vibrant event involving a lot of fanfare and noise which you will definitely enjoy in your Ireland Travel. Irish towns and villages also celebrate these parades associated with the St. Patrick's Festival in Ireland. The Saint Patrick Day always takes place in the season of Lent.

St. Patrick's Festival in Ireland is also celebrated in North America, Australia and Britain by the expatriate Irish and even people who are not of any Irish descent by a generous intake of alcoholic drinks and other beverages like Irish beer, Irish cider as well as Irish coffee and Baileys Irish cream. As they participate in the festival they follow the rituals and traditions like wearing green colored clothing. Irish soda bread is another ingredient specially rendered on this occasion which is available in the numerous supermarkets of Ireland and even outside on this particular day. The growing popularity of the St. Patrick's Festival is found in the ways in which the Americans have adopted it in the commercial markets by selling green bagels as well as popcorn around that period. Among the several other festivals in Ireland that you will observe during your Ireland Tour, the St. Patrick's Festival, Ireland will always hold special importance.