According to the legends, St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
A very interesting theory, but I doubt very much that there is any connection.
No.
None because there were never any snakes in Ireland.
I found a passage in Wikipedia - see related link. Scroll down to the paragraph "St. Patrick banishes all snakes from Ireland" - about half-way through the text.
Snakes.
The myth is that St. Patrick drove away the snakes in Ireland.
Scientists have determined that snakes have never lived in Ireland. The snakes are symbolic of the pagan Druid gods that Patrick drove out of Ireland by converting the Irish to Catholicism.
he brought Christianity to Ireland
Legend says that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. However, scientist say that their is no fossil evidence that snakes ever occurred in that country.
St Patrick drove all snakes out of Ireland.
St. Patrick's day was first celebrated in Ireland.