St Patrick's Day, March 17, was celebrated at All Out, Queen's Park Oval, Woodbrook, with a huge crowd in attendance dressed in green and drinking green-coloured beer, ale and cider.
Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration commemorated annually on March 17 globally, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland and the day celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish.
He is believed to have died on March 17, sometime in the fifth century (some scholars place his death in AD 461). but the modern origin of the festival now celebrated internationally stems from the 17th century.
It was designated a religious feast day after the Vatican officially recognised the date in 1631.
It wasn't an Irish public holiday until 1904, although the Irish elite did celebrate in the latter half of the 19th century with an annual ball held in Dublin Castle; but, for most ordinary folk it remained a quiet day. Until the mid-1960s many pubs remained closed on March 17.
The holiday, in its modern format, stems in great part from the United States, rather than the Emerald Isle.