Celebrate the sights, sounds and tastes of St. Patrick’s Day!

Blue was the original color of St. Patrick’s Day. It’s thought that Ireland’s nickname, “The Emerald Isle,” inspired the shift to green.

Legend says that each leaf of the clover has a meaning: Hope, Faith, Love, and Luck.

Your odds of finding a four-leaf clover are about 1 in 10,000.

There are 34.7 million U.S. residents with Irish ancestry, which is seven times the population of Ireland itself!

The real St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He was born in Britain around A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family.

Chicago dyes their river green for a few hours every St. Patrick’s Day.