Primary School boys and girls give their impressions of Saint Patrick the missionary.

• Production Year
  1977

A visit to St. Patrick's Purgatory at Lough Derg, where pilgrims of all ages engage in ritual prayer and fasting.

• Production Year
  1986
• Contributor
  Tommy Gorman (Narrator)

'7 Days' looks at pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo, the reasons for participating in the pilgrimage and the types of people that do it. According to legend Saint Patrick climbed Croagh Patrick and fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.

• Production Year
  1970
• Contributor
  Bill O'Herlihy

Déanann Mairéad Ní Nuadháin cur síos ar Mhórshiúl Lá Fhéile Pádraig i Moscó.

• Production Year
  1993
• Contributor
  Mairéad Ní Nuadháin (Presenter)

Is this the shortest St Patrick's Day parade in the world?

• Production Year
  1999
• Contributor
  Michael Mulqueen (Reporter)

A report on the commercial growing of shamrock in Rosscarbery, Cork. Mrs O'Keefe recalls being the guest of honour at the royal presentation of shamrock to the Irish Guards in London.

• Production Year
  1966
• Contributor
  Bill O'Herlihy (Reporter)

Harry Hughes, Chairman of the Croagh Patrick Archaeological Group, explains Ireland's patron saint's connection with this mountain and why it is a place of pilgrimage.

• Production Year
  2005
• Contributor
  Michelle McCaughren (Reporter)

The 1979 St Patrick's Day Parade passes in front of the General Post Office. An attempt by a H Block protest to disrupt the parade is rerouted.

• Production Year
  1979

On a wet and gloomy St Patrick's Day in 1965, RTÉ News looks at festivities around the country and a report from London.

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Joe Fahy (Reporter)
  Anne Binchy (Reporter)
  Cecil Deeney (Reporter)
  Kevin O'Kelly (Reporter)
  Mike Burns (Reporter)

Among the casulaties of the foot and mouth crisis are this years St Particks Day Parades.

• Production Year
  2001
• Contributor
  Bryan Dobson (Reporter)

Emigrants return to Achill Island to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Jim Fahy (Reporter)

A subdued St Patrick's Day in Dublin and Mayo as parades are cancelled due to foot and mouth disease restrictions.

• Production Year
  2001
• Contributor
  Orla O'Donnell (Reporter)

Noraid the fundraising wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are having a growing influence over St Patrick's Day festivities in America.

• Production Year
  1983
• Contributor
  Pat Cox (Reporter)

The crew of Irish navy ship the LE Eithne and the small Irish community of Rio de Janeiro hold a St Patrick's Day party for some of the city's street children.

• Production Year
  2006
• Contributor
  Jim Fahy (Reporter)

St Patrick's Day often prompts discussions of what it means to be Irish. In a 'Late Late Show' special broadcast from London, presenter Gay Byrne takes to the streets and asks English people what they know of Ireland.

• Production Year
  1980
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)

In 2008, the St Patrick's Day Festival moved its "Skyfest" outside of Dublin for the first time and held the fireworks display at the Rock of Cashel.

• Production Year
  2008
• Contributor
  Damien Tiernan (Reporter)