St. Patrick's Day Parades

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As important as St. Patrick is to Irish history, we bet you didn't know the tradition of celebrating March 17th with parades actually started in America.
The parade tradition really took off after the Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in the 1840 s, sending hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants pouring into New York, Boston and other American cities.
The first record of a St. Patrick's Day parade in New York dates to 1762 when a group of Irish soldiers serving with the British marched a few blocks to a tavern in lower Manhattan.
Today it's the largest and longest St. Patrick's Day parade hosting close to 200, 000 participants and nearly three million spectators each year.
So this March 17th we hope you 'll be wearing green and toasting to some St. Patrick's Day history that we bet you didn't know.

As important as St. Patrick is to Irish history, we bet you didn't know the tradition of celebrating March 17th with parades actually started in America.
The parade tradition really took off after the Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in the 1840 s, sending hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants pouring into New York, Boston and other American cities.
The first record of a St. Patrick's Day parade in New York dates to 1762 when a group of Irish soldiers serving with the British marched a few blocks to a tavern in lower Manhattan.
Today it's the largest and longest St. Patrick's Day parade hosting close to 200, 000 participants and nearly three million spectators each year.
So this March 17th we hope you 'll be wearing green and toasting to some St. Patrick's Day history that we bet you didn't know.