It’s one of Europe’s most famous parties, and as the European festival travel experts it makes sense that we’d get involved. Stoke Travel is going to make sure that every waking minute of the trip is some kind of celebration, with our festival within a festival style of party travel.

Celebrate St Patrick's day the real way in Ireland with Guinness, Guinness and oh more Guinness! It is a celebration of all things Irish, or music and art and food and of course throwing your arm around a stranger and belting out a drunken song or 50.

Here you’ll fiddle with Irish beauties, jig your day away with someone called Paddy, drink too much whisky and write emotional poetry, etc. You’ll also just get down to the serious and splendid business of partying in the streets and bars, enjoying the Irish hospitality on their biggest day of the year and bearing witness as this creative nation shows you the best it has to offer.

The theme of the day is green, so make sure you come clad in your luckiest clover-coloured gear, dye your hair red if you really want to fit in, wear one of those little hats that leprechauns sport and get ready to party like the Irish — a lot, drunkenly, and very, very cheerfully.

We’ll be based in Kilkenny, Ireland’s party capital and a beautiful medieval town conveniently located between the airports of Dublin, Cork and Shannon. On St Pat’s Day we’ll head into Dublin by private bus transfer for the world famous parade and throw parties of our own to make leprechauns of ourselves, while we cover our outsides in green and fill our insides with black beer.