Legend has it that St Patrick chased all the snakes in Ireland into the sea - which explains why there are no snakes in the country. The story seems to date back to a late seventh century book ...

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Patrick’s own writings and early accounts of the saint’s career reveal many ... it could not have happened because there were no snakes in pre-modern Ireland. Reptiles never made it across ...

I am known as Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland ... Sometimes artists show me chasing snakes out of Ireland - that always makes me smile because there have never been any snakes in ...

Well, St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland ... that Patrick was responsible for driving all the snakes out of Ireland. But snakes were never there in the first place. There’s even a ...