St. Patrick's Festival

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St. Patrick's Festival
Official nameSt. Patrick's Festival
Observed by Irish people
FrequencyAnnual

St. Patrick's Festival, established by the Government of Ireland in November 1995, [1] is a tourist attraction, aiming to showcase a modern and creative Ireland, [2] and has since developed into a multi day celebration which takes place annually on and around March 17, St. Patrick's Day - the national holiday of Ireland.

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The principal aim of the Festival was to "develop a major annual international event around the national holiday over which the 'owners' of the festival - the Irish people, would stand proud." [3]

The festival is held in several Irish cities, including Dublin, Cork, Killarney, Waterford, Sligo, Kilkenny and Limerick. [4] [5]

2024

In 2024, the festival ran for four days and included pageants, music gigs, walking tours and art exhibitions. [6] This culminated in the St Patrick's Day celebration which saw 500,000 people join the St Patrick’s Day Parade. [7]

The festival was funded by the government's Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, as well as Fáilte Ireland and Dublin City Council; [7] sponsors included Tayto crisps, Dublin Airport and European Recycling Platform Ireland.

References

  1. ↑ December 22, 2003. Bridget Haggerty. "Party Down in Dublin Town - 2003". Irish Culture and Customs.
  2. ↑ 6 May 2015. O'Donnell, Aisling T.; Muldoon, Orla T.; Blaylock, Danielle L.; Stevenson, Clifford; Bryan, Dominic; Reicher, Stephen D.; Pehrson, Samuel (2016). "'Something That Unites Us All': Understandings of St. Patrick's Day Parades as Representing the Irish National Group" (PDF). Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 26: 61–74. doi: 10.1002/casp.2236 .
  3. ↑ Nov 14, 2017. "'Luck of the Rock': SRU's Marching Pride invited to Dublin's 2019 St. Patrick's Festival". Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania .
  4. ↑ Fáilte Ireland website, Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
  5. ↑ Cork City website, Cork St. Patricks Festival
  6. ↑ Tourism Ireland website, St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin, retrieved September 16, 2024
  7. 1 2 St Patrick's Festival website, Highlights from St. Patrick's Festival 2024, published April 16, 2024


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