St. Patrick’s Day – The UncommonWealth

Erin Go Bragh! Images of St Patrick’s Day in the Visual Studies Collection

This March we are highlighting vintage St. Patrick’s Day postcards from the Visual Studies Collection at the Library of Virginia. What is the backstory behind…

Meghan TownesMarch 13, 2019

Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day Miscellanea

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we found a selection of the (very) broad ways that newspapers have chosen to acknowledge the feast day over the…

Olin JohnsonMarch 14, 2018

Newspapers

An Irish Tango: A Musical Marriage for St. Patrick’s Day

When Mollie Durango Does the Irish Tango from the March 7, 1915 issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch https://youtu.be/td-8tJ-t5L4

Kelley EwingMarch 17, 2016

Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day in Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day News from the March 17, 1911 issue of the Times Dispatch. All images are from Chronicling America.Headlines from the March 17, 1911…

Kelley EwingMarch 17, 2013