--- title: St. Patrick's Day: New Google Doodle Features Dancing Shamrocks description: It's the first time the company has enlisted an Irish person to create its St. Patrick's Day illustration canonical: https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-17T03:30:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:32.781Z og:title: St. Patrick's Day Honored by New Google Doodle og:description: Get out your green clothes and let the Guinness flow. og:url: https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt083153b680b8cd22/698783e1524fc00f99dececc/screen-shot-2015-03-17-at-10-58-34-am.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-03-17 at 10.58.34 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: St. Patrick's Day Honored by New Google Doodle twitter:description: Get out your green clothes and let the Guinness flow. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt083153b680b8cd22/698783e1524fc00f99dececc/screen-shot-2015-03-17-at-10-58-34-am.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates St. Patrick's Day ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 17, 2015 3:30 AM UTC  Google by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 17, 2015 3:30 AM UTC It’s the day of the year when everything goes green — clothes, [rivers](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/03/16/st-patricks-day-rivers-dyed-green/24839351/) and maybe even [beer](http://time.com/3746426/saint-patricks-day-unusual-surprising-celebrations-parades-green-beer/) — St. Patrick’s Day, that wonderful, joyous and typically bacchanalian Irish holiday that Google is celebrating with a doodle of fiddling, dancing shamrocks. The holiday, also known as the Feast of St. Patrick, commemorates a man considered a patron saint of Ireland and bringer of Christianity to the nation. According to a religious document called the _Declaration_, Patrick was kidnapped from Britain at age 16 by Irish pirates and taken back to the Emerald Isle as a slave. He “found God” while working as a shepherd there, and the Almighty told him to go to the coast where there would be a ship to take him home. Upon his return, Patrick became a priest and then crossed the sea once again to convert thousands of Irishmen to Christianity. March 17, celebrated as St. Patrick’s Day, is believed to have been the day he died. He is also credited for banishing all snakes from his adopted home, chasing them into the sea after he was set upon during a 40-day fast he was enduring atop a hill. This year’s Google Doodle is even more special, because it is the first time the company has enlisted an Irish native to create one for St. Patrick’s Day. “I just wanted it to be simple,” Arklow-based illustrator Eamon O’Neill, who submitted four ideas after Google approached him, [told](http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/irish-artist-s-eyes-smiling-as-he-goes-global-with-google-doodle-1.2142013) the _Irish Times._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Celebrates St. Patrick's Day","datePublished":"2015-03-17T03:30:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:32.781Z","description":"Get out your green clothes and let the Guinness flow","url":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","World","Google Doodle","St. Patrick's Day","Ireland"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt083153b680b8cd22/698783e1524fc00f99dececc/screen-shot-2015-03-17-at-10-58-34-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt083153b680b8cd22/698783e1524fc00f99dececc/screen-shot-2015-03-17-at-10-58-34-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-03-17 at 10.58.34 AM","caption":"St. Patrick's Day","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/","name":"New Google Doodle Celebrates St. Patrick's Day"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3747117/st-patricks-day-google-doodle-dancing-shamrocks/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```