The Best St. Patrick's Day Captions for All Your Instagram-Worthy Shenanigans

The Best St. Patrick's Day Captions for All Your Instagram-Worthy Shenanigans
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On March 17, whether you dress head to toe in the cutest green ensemble, cook up a photo-worthy Irish feast, or get up to some shenanigans with friends, here’s the deal: Post it on the ‘Gram or it didn’t happen. We’re here to help with this list of St. Patrick’s Day Instagram captions.

From funny Irish puns to cute one-liners, you’ll find the best short captions here to accompany pics of all your favorite St. Patrick’s Day traditions, whether a parade selfie, a sweet pic of you and your significant other being lucky in love, or a green beer-laden moment shared with friends at the pub. And don’t forget those adorable snapshots of your kids’ St. Patrick’s day crafts or your pup dressed as a furry leprechaun (we would like to see that, please).

So post away—and be ready to earn a lot of likes and no pinches! Need even more caption ideas? You might just find Instagram caption gold in our collections of St. Patrick’s Day jokes or Irish quotes and blessings.

St. Patrick's Day Captions for Friends & Pub Pics

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  • Shenanigans Squad

  • Erin go bragh!

  • Sláinte 🥃

  • A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: Hard to find and lucky to have.

  • Look who I found at the end of the rainbow.

  • Painting the town green!

St. Patrick's Day Captions for Couples

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  • Found my lucky charm!

  • Lucky in love is lucky enough.

  • You're the beer to my pint.

  • Lucky to be with you.

  • Lucky AF

St. Patrick's Day Captions for Pets

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  • Happy St. Paw-trick's day 🐾

  • Rub my belly for luck.

  • Kiss me, I'm cute.

  • A St. Patrick's Day reminder from [dog's name]: Hydrate between pints or you might feel ruff tomorrow.

St. Patrick's Day Captions for Kids, Babies, and Family Group Photos

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  • Little Miss Shamrock / Mr. Shamrock

  • Cutest clover in the patch.

  • Lucky girl ☘️ / Lucky boy ☘️

  • Lucky little cutie ☘️

  • Mama's little changeling

  • Lucky us

  • Lucky Mom/Dad

  • My lucky charms call me, Mom/Grandma/Dad/Grandpa.

  • Who needs luck when you've got this crew?

  • I'm not lucky, I'm blessed.

St. Patrick's Day Selfie Captions

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  • I pinch back.

  • Going green today.

  • The paddy don't start till I walk in.

  • Ready to shamrock this day.

  • Cutest clover in the patch.

  • This is the only green shirt I own.

  • Can't pinch this.

  • Everyone loves an Irish girl.

  • Irish and stylish

  • Sassy lass

  • The leprechauns made me do it.

  • Pinch me if you dare.

  • Who needs luck? I have charm.

  • I'm here to paddy.

  • Lady Luck's got nothing on me.

Funny St. Patrick's Day Captions

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  • Chase your dreams, not your whiskey.

  • Warning: May cause shenanigans and malarky.

  • Irish today, hungover tomorrow.

  • It's not easy being green...except today.

  • Let's get shamrocked!

  • St. Patrick's Day is like Valentine's Day for people who love beer.

  • Take a pitcher, it'll last longer.

  • Shake your shamrocks.

  • Everybody in the pub getting’ tipsy.

  • I'm not Irish, but my coffee is.

  • Why doesn't green wine exist?

  • We will, we will, shamROCK you.

  • Drink like your name has an apostrophe in it.

  • Go luck yourself.

  • Don't worry, beer happy.

  • Zero lucks given.

  • I'm Dublin over with laughter.

  • Let's sham-rock and roll.

  • It's a brew-tiful day.

Cute St. Patrick's Day Instagram Captions

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  • Have a lucky day ☘️ 🌈 🎩

  • Irish you a happy St. Patrick's Day!

  • Hope, faith, love ☘️

  • Wishing you a pot o' gold and all the joy your heart can hold.

  • Everyone's Irish today.

  • Erin go bragh!

  • ☘️+🍺=😍

  • Irish kisses and shamrock wishes.

  • Luck be a lady on March 17!

Quotes for St. Patrick's Day Instagram Captions

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  • "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go." — Irish blessing

  • "Whether I drink often or just once in a while; I'm always sure to raise a glass to the dear old Emerald Isle." — Pat Maloney

  • "For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o' March!" —Thomas Augustine Daly

  • "May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back." — Irish blessing

  • "I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland." — Saoirse Ronan

  • "I'm Irish! When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody." — Morgan Llywelyn

  • "The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself." — Douglas MacArthur

  • "May your troubles be less. And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door." — Irish blessing

  • "Luck is believing you're lucky." — Tennessee Williams

  • "The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination." — George Bernard Shaw

  • "You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it." — Jimmy Dean

  • "May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load." — Irish Blessing

  • "St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic." — Adrienne Cook

  • "Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels." — Nora Roberts

  • "Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin." —Idries Shah

  • "Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be." —St. Patrick

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