One of the famous Irish festival St. Patrick’s Day celebrate each year on 17th March, which has been celebrate in various places including Great Britain, North America, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Montserrat, among others cities. There is only one day to go until St. Patrick’s Day 2010 on March 17. The main St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by almost all Irish countries both North and South apart and around the world. In this day people hosts the largest St. Patrick’s Day party and big Parade and wearing green clothes, lots of beer and Irish foods and crafts, Music, dance, visual art etc. New York’s St Patrick’s Day Parade is the largest in the world; attend by more than 2 million people. New York was held the biggest parade in 1762.
About Saint Patrick’s Day:
Saint Patrick’s Day is a yearly public holiday, which is celebrated on 17 March in the world. St. Patrick’s Day celebrate by honor the death of St. Patrick, the patron saints of Ireland. It is also known as a Christian holiday and became an official feast day in the early 1600s. St Patrick’s Day celebrations taking place across Northern Ireland and with much enthusiasm in other places such as Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States and New Zealand. The main parts of this grand occasion are Irish foods, drink, green clothes, frothy delights, Music, Parade, green fountain etc.
Patrick is known as the patron saint of Ireland, and he has become an essential part of the Irish tradition. He was the son of a roman British army officer, Calpurnius. At the age of 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland as slavery. He had traveled 20 years throughout Ireland, and establishing monasteries, schools and churches across the Irish country. An Irish legend tells that one of his teaching methods using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish people. He was died on March 17, AD 461. The Catholic feast day is also become a holiday, it is most loved of Irish saints and celebration of Irish culture.
The parades, shamrocks, and green beer are provided primarily for tourists on this day. The people are wearing green colored costumes and main attraction of this festival is Saint Patricks Day Parades, it is held in worldwide. The Irish Music, Dance, Irish Pubs, Games, Drum Bands, costume characters are including in the Parades. The event is free and open to the public. Chicago River is turn into green color river for specially Saint Patrick’s Day. There are originally 100 pounds of vegetable color was used to turn the river green for a whole week. The Saint Patrick Day Celebrations are generally themed of the four leaf clover because the Green colors were worn in celebration of St Patrick’s Day as early as the 17th century. These colours and symbols are also used to decorate streets and buildings.
How to celebrate St. Patricks Day:
These apart Irish community in various cities celebrate the Day with social and community works. The easiest ways to celebrate include eating green food, decorating with holiday icons and, of course, wearing something green. Below are given some best ideas about celebrating St. Patrick’s day with your family,
Ideas for Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day as a Family:
St. Patrick’s Day offers families a lot of options for celebrating together.
- Attend a local St. Patrick’s Day parade.
- Go on a scavenger hunt. Write clues written on paper shamrocks, ultimately leading to a pot of chocolate gold coins.
- Let the kids set up “Leprechaun traps” throughout the house the night before; in the morning, they can find that they traps have all been sprung but the tricky Leprechauns escaped.
- Go to a local thrift store and compete to find the best and most ridiculous green St. Patrick’s Day outfit.
- Hold a contest for who can wear the most green at the same time.
- Eat a special meal in honor of St. Paddy’s Day: traditional Irish fare like corned beef and cabbage, or maybe a dinner where every food served is green.
- Cut out and decorate Leprechaun paper dolls or a string of paper Leprechauns.
St. Patrick’s Day 2010 Parades Schedule:
Friday, March 12, 2010
Downtown Irish Club Parade – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Irish Channel Parade – 1 p.m.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Metairie Road – 11 a.m
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Parisol’s St. Patty’s Day Party – 11 a.m. til
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Louisiana Irish-Italian Parade (Metairie) – 12 Noon
You can see full list of St. Patrick’s Day Parades and Events Schedule worldwide.
St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Photos:
March 24th, 2010 at 6:50 am
Great pictures but some one shoudl have come to Savannah Ga. St.patrick day party .It is the 2nd largerst behind NYC. Check it out for next year. if you please . been going for over 50 years. i just walk in ours and it was a great day for the irish and non-irish. i marched with the ALZ. group because of my mother condition 89 years young . . god bless.