CELEBRATIONS

The first Saint Patrick's Festival was held on 17 March 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 it was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long; more than 675,000 people attended the 2009 parade. Overall 2009's five-day festival saw close to 1 million visitors, who took part in festivities that included concerts, outdoor theatre performances, and fireworks. Skyfest forms the centrepiece of the festival.

 

Argentina

In Buenos Aires, a party is held in the downtown street of Reconquista, where there are several Irish pubs

Canada

One of the longest-running and largest Saint Patrick's Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal,whose city flag includes a shamrock in its lower-right quadrant

Great Britain

 

In Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother used to present bowls of shamrock flown over from Ireland to members of the Irish Guards, a regiment in the British Army consisting primarily of soldiers from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Guards still wear shamrock on this day, flown in from Ireland.

Sydney, Australia

Munich, Germany
Chicago, IL, USA 
International Space Station
Disneyland Paris, France
Moscow, Russia


 

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia