200 ST. PATRICK'S DAY IMAGES and Shamrock Clip Art

More than 200 free holiday images, including leprechauns, four-leaf clovers and greetings. All the St. Patrick's Day images and Shamrock clip art you need are here. ____________________________

Find the perfect St. Patrick's Day images in this free collection. You'll find shamrock clip art and 'Happy St. Patrick's Day' greetings to send in emails. Plus, there are all kinds of funny leprechauns, pots of gold and plenty of green beer.

The holiday is on March 17. It is a celebration of all things Irish and of 'the wearing of the green.'

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♣ St. Patrick's Day Images

♣ Happy St. Patrick's Day

♣ Shamrock Clip Art

♣ Four-Leaf Clovers and Luck of the Irish

♣ Leprechaun Images

♣ Pot of Gold and Rainbow

♣ St. Patrick's Day Party Clip Art

St. Patrick's Day Images

This section has the classic St. Patrick's Day images to start the holiday. You'll find the perfect graphic to announce the celebration, lots of shamrocks and Irish lasses.

Just right click on the image you need and save to your computer or print. The graphic will save without the caption underneath. These are all free to use for personal use, in classrooms or to send in emails. Enjoy!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

These images include the words 'Happy St. Patrick's Day' and are perfect for sending a holiday greeting by email or to print out for a card.

You'll find the traditional holiday images and wishes.

If you are looking for a great gift for the holiday, these St. Pat's leg warmers are a best-seller on Amazon.

Is it 'Happy St. Patty's Day' or 'Happy St. Paddy's Day?' It's not so easy to answer that, but you will hear and see both expressions.

If you want to read more about the issue, read this: Paddy or Patty?

Shamrock Clip Art

The shamrock is the national emblem of Ireland. It represents the young leaves of the clover plant and was used by the real St. Patrick to teach his religion in Ireland.

The shamrock clip art in this section is perfect for St. Patrick's Day, or for representing Irish tradition on any day of the year.

Because people are expected to wear green on St. Patrick's Day even if they aren't Irish, choosing a green shamrock to wear is the perfect way to keep from getting pinched.

Cartoon Shamrocks

The shamrock images in this section are all cartoon shamrocks. There are a lot of smiley-faced shamrocks here.

You can grow your own shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day with this kit which includes every thing you need, even the soil from Ireland.

It comes with a hand-crafted planter from Ireland and genuine Irish shamrock seeds, authenticated by the government of Ireland.

It even comes in a unique gift box.

Four-Leaf Clovers and Luck of the Irish

It is estimated that you have a one in 10,000 chance of finding a four-leaf clover in a clover patch. That means that you are pretty lucky if you find one and that is why the four-leaf shamrock represents luck.

You'll see many of these images on St. Patrick's Day, where they represent the 'luck of the Irish.'

Pass on a little luck with the gorgeous four-leaf shamrock pendant featured at the right. A lucky lass will get this shamrock with real diamonds!

Leprechaun Images

Leprechauns have been part of Irish folklore for more than a thousand years. They are inhabitants of the enchanted fairy kingdom and are known to live among mushroom patches. They always come out on St. Patrick's Day.

They are sometimes just the size of a toadstool, but some of them grow up to be two feet tall.

You can visit leprechauns at the National Leprechaun Museum in Dublin, Ireland.

You'll often see a leprechaun with a shillelagh, which is sometimes a walking cane and sometimes a club.

A leprechaun really doesn't need help in walking – in fact, you'll often see a leprechaun dancing the famous Irish Jig with his shillelagh high in the air as he kicks up his feet.

Leprechauns actually use their shillelaghs to defend their pots of gold.

The Boston Celtics Basketball team uses an image of a leprechaun leaning on a shillelagh in its logo.

Leprechauns Dancing the Irish Jig

If you've never seen the Irish Jig, watch the video on the right. This is from a dance competition and all of the participants have Irish costumes.

In the Jig, the dancers keep their backs straight and their arms down and stiff. All of the action is in the feet and in high-kicks.

You can't dance the Jig without traditional Irish music. If you are planning a party for St. Patrick's Day, don't forget the Jig music!

Besides, leprechaun's love music and can play all of the Irish musical instruments. With the right music, you might just have a leprechaun or two show up and join the fun.

You'll see leprechauns dancing and playing instruments in the St. Pat's Day images below:

Harps Clip Art

Ireland has always had harps in its imagery. Harps were used by ancient story tellers, called bards, to accompany folk tales. You'll see a lot of harps come out to play on St. Patty's Day!

Leprechaun Faces

Leprechauns have many faces in imagery. Just like people, no two are alike. They could use their own Facebook site!

They are often depicted smoking a long pipe.

Some leprechauns have pointed ears and some don't. Some of them even have pointed noses and toes.

About half of leprechauns have long beards and a high percentage of them have red beards.

They are usually laughing or joking, because they are always up to some mischief.

And one other thing: They almost always wear green clothes.

Pot of Gold and Rainbow

Every leprechaun has a pot of gold which he hides at the end of a rainbow. Sometimes, if you're really lucky, you can persuade a leprechaun to give you some gold.

But, first you have to find his hiding place.

Leprechauns keep moving their gold with each rainbow, so right after it rains is a good time to find one. Leprechauns are known to try to trick you, so be on your guard.

St. Patrick's Day Party Clip Art

St. Patty's Day is full of parades, parties and celebrations of all things Irish. If you are planning a party for the holiday, here are some images you can use.

If you are invited to a St. Patrick's Day Part, be sure to take along a hostess gift. The gift box at the right is filled with Irish coffee and an Irish shamrock mug. It can be delivered directly to your hostess.

For your own party, start with a cute invitation. Here are two images you can use for invitations:

It's customary to provide green badges for your guests, in case someone forgot to wear green. You can also use these for name tags.

Because the holiday is also a celebration of the Irish culture, the badge below is in the official colors of Ireland: green, white and orange.

When you decorate for your party, don't forget to get some Irish flags.

There would be no St. Patrick's Day without Ireland because that's where the whole tale of Patrick took place.

From there, Irish immigrants have transplanted the holiday to every county they went to and they took the Irish flag with them.

You can leave Ireland, but Ireland never leaves you!

Why Do People Drink Beer on St. Patrick's Day?

Why do people drink beer (and Irish whiskey) on St. Patrick's Day? Well, the holiday falls right in the middle of the Catholic Lent season when people try to give up something pleasurable, like drinking beer.

Because the Irish wouldn't give up beer for St. Patty's Day, one of the Popes made a special proclamation that drinking on this holiday was allowed. The Irish thanked Mr. Pope, but they had already made their own exception for the holiday! You see, there never has been an Irish pope, so the Irish are mighty pleased that they were able to alter a decision from Rome. And, they drink to that!

If you have a party, you need party hats. For this holiday, that means leprechaun hats.

There are several styles of leprechaun hats so you can order a selection for your party.

The hat featured at the right is made of felt and is hand-washable so you can use it year after year.

Go read the great reviews from people who picked this up from Amazon.com.

At your party, put your dancing shoes on and start the music playing.

This group of images shows leprechaun dancing shoes that are perfect to wear for dancing the Irish Jig.

The special shoes featured at the right are for leprechauns with curly toes and they are covered with green, sparkling sequins.

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Comments

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 17, 2014:

Hi Nell! Sounds like you might just be a wee bit Irish. I appreciate your comments.

Nell Rose from England on February 17, 2014:

Well bejesus begora and begonia...ah sorry about the last one! lol! how great is this? really love the pictures, nice one! and top of the mornin' to ya! lol!

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 12, 2014:

Thanks, WriterJanis. Hope you found some images to use.

Janis from California on February 12, 2014:

You have such great clipart here for St. Patrick's Day. There are so many fun things people can do with it.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 12, 2014:

Thank you, Alicia. I'm finding that many people are using these images for anything that needs an Irish graphic.

Linda Crampton from British Columbia, Canada on February 12, 2014:

Interesting facts and a great collection of clip art, Writer Fox. This hub will be very useful for people wanting free St. Patrick's day images and a great time saver for them!

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 10, 2014:

Thank you, Linda.

mylindaelliott from Louisiana on February 09, 2014:

Wonderful collection.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 03, 2014:

So cool!

FlourishAnyway from USA on February 03, 2014:

Well, I will indeed! I can pick up on a good hint.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 03, 2014:

That is so cool, FlourishAnyway, and I'm honored beyond belief! Here it is:

http://www.pinterest.com/shelleynbaker/clip-art

Maybe you'll pin a shamrock picture to your 'Ireland' board, too - hint, hint!

Thank you so very much.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 03, 2014:

Hi Eddwen: Thanks for visiting and commenting.

FlourishAnyway from USA on February 03, 2014:

St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays. Thanks for this beautiful clip art. My favorite is the one that entitled "framed by shamrocks." Pinning to my Clip Artboard that I started in your honor, Writer Fox. Have a great day.

Eiddwen from Wales on February 03, 2014:

A wonderful; article and thanks for sharing.

Eddy.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 02, 2014:

Hi Ologsinquito: I'm so glad you appreciate this collection and thank you so much for the Pinning the images!

ologsinquito from USA on February 02, 2014:

Hi Writer Fox, this is a very extensive collection of St. Patrick's Day and Shamrock clip art. I'm going to pin this to one of my boards tomorrow.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 02, 2014:

Eugbug: Love the Irish commentary! That's like an official seal of approval. Hope you can use some of these graphics for your holiday celebration and thanks for the comments.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 02, 2014:

Alexadry: Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and for the vote. I really appreciate it.

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 02, 2014:

Hi Bobbi Purvis: I'm glad you liked the video of the Jig competition. Those kids are really fantastic. I appreciate your comment.

Eugene Brennan from Ireland on February 02, 2014:

Well toura loura loura! Shure your makin me Irish eyes smile with the forty shades of green. Begob and begorah , may the blessings of St Patrick be on you and may the road rise to meet you for all your work. Doze fotos are great craic altogether!

Adrienne Farricelli on February 02, 2014:

A timely hub with lots of nice clip art ideas! Voted up and useful.

Barbara Purvis Hunter from Florida on February 02, 2014:

Hi Writer Fox,

What a darling hub and it has everything one would need to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I will come back for some of the clipart and thanks for adding additional clipart for the year.

Thanks, I loved the video.

Bobbi Purvis

Writer Fox (author) from the wadi near the little river on February 01, 2014:

I think everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! Thanks for leaving a comment on this new collection.

Eileen Gamboa from West Palm Beach on February 01, 2014:

Well look at all the green, 'tis a grand thing and makes me Irish heart sing!