Seven Irish bars across the globe, in locations as far-flung as Peru and the Philippines, have big plans for our national day – here’s how they celebrate in style

Clockwise from top left: Paddy’s Irish Pub in the Philippines; The Irish Haven in New York City; O’Reilly’s in Frankfurt; a traditional music session in The Drunken Poet in Melbourne; Vinny Cahill of Corcoran’s Irish Pub in Paris; The Auld Shillelagh in London; Paddy’s Irish Pub in Peru; the exterior of The Drunken Poet

Clockwise from top left: Paddy’s Irish Pub in the Philippines; The Irish Haven in New York City; O’Reilly’s in Frankfurt; a traditional music session in The Drunken Poet in Melbourne; Vinny Cahill of Corcoran’s Irish Pub in Paris; The Auld Shillelagh in London; Paddy’s Irish Pub in Peru; the exterior of The Drunken Poet

With more than 6,000 Irish pubs dotted around the world, there’ll be plenty of glasses raised globally today to celebrate our patron saint. From the gateway to Machu Picchu to metropolitan Melbourne, we tracked down some of the best Irish bars around the world to find out what’s planned for St Patrick’s Day.

Born and reared in Co Kilkenny, Siobhan Dooley graduated from Trinity College and emigrated first to Boston and then Melbourne. “I opened the Drunken Poet in September 2006 on a desolate street in west Melbourne. It was the best location I could afford, but thanks to the Irish expats and diaspora, it quickly got off the ground,” she says.