While we associate St. Patrick’s Day with everything green, boozy and sweet, the history of this holiday has much deeper roots. March 17th was officially declared a holiday in the 1800s to ...

Bring your little lucky charms to St. Patrick’s Day events filled with Irish dancers, live music, and all things green. You’ll enjoy plenty of parades, alongside gold coin hunts, 5ks, and leprechaun ...

Learn the words to your favorite Irish songs and gear up for a very St. Patrick’s Day in NYC this year. The luck of the Irish is with us this year—St. Patrick’s Day in NYC is shaping up to ...

The New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade is coming up, and NYC's parade is a really big deal. It's the oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world. The first NYC parade was held ...

One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to ...

Valentine's Day will be here before you know ... old King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia via a poem, in which he wrote: "For this was on St. Valentine’s Day, when every bird (fowl) cometh ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus. Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. My favourite translation is by Peter Whigham. It takes a bit of licence ...