The St. Patrick's Day Parade celebrates the Bostoner Erbe in America's most Irish city

Boston (AP) quantities from green-dressed, shame rock-American night owls filled the streets of the American city for the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday.

Green, white and orange confetti-die national colors of the Emerald Isle-Regnen along parts of the 3.5 mile route (5.6 kilometers). Parade floats and marchers wounded through the neighborhood of South Boston, a center of the Irish-American heritage in a city in which there are more than 1 of 5 people of Irish descent.

Camryn Craddock was among those along the Parade route, which included parts of the Broadway, the thoroughfare of the district.

“I just like the energy that everyone brings. Everyone is really excited. It is not boring, ”said Massachusetts residents. “I didn't even see much of the parade, but only to see that everyone had fun was really nice and everything.”

Travis Wilshire, another night owl, agreed.

“The last time I was here, I was just a little child,” said the residents of New Hampshire. “So it's definitely cool to see it in a different age group, do you know what I mean?”

The spectators, which were packed behind metal barricades, playfully hissed as colonial reenactors, the British tricorn hats and other clothing on the warm but cloudy day.

The parade, which comes until the turn of the 20th century, marked both St. Patrick's Day and the Evacuation Day, which is reminiscent of the day of 1776, as British troops left Boston after a lengthy siege during the War of Independence.

Alex Brough The Parade Goer found that people mainly behaved afterwards Violence and public poisoning clouded in the past yearCelebration. The organizers of the parade moved the beginning of the celebrations and the neighborhood manager, before which was waiting. ” Zero tolerance ”For Rowdiness and Shenanigans before Sunday.

The transit police released one in front of the parade Photo on social media Show a bunch of clear garbage bags with a confiscated alcohol, including the gallon size filled with green liquid.

“A lot of alcohol is probably consumed today,” the resident Bedford, Massachusetts, admitted. “We saw it, but I think the people still behave pretty well overall.”

The South Boston Allied was Veterans Council organized the parade and this year's chief marshal was the retirement of the Navy, CMDR. Alanna Devlin Ball, who grew up in the neighborhood and represented the United States at the Invictus Games 2023 in Germany, where she took home gold at Powerlifting.

“Lt. Cdr. The 12 -year career of Devlin Ball in the Navy serves as inspiration for young women who want to serve in today's military. We are grateful for their service, their victims and their existence), ”said the US representative Stephen Lynch, a native South Bostoner.

The South Boston Parade has been a source of political controversy in recent years.

The veterans Council banned gay law groups to march in the parade until a decade ago, and a judgment of the U.S. Court of Justice confirmed this right in the nineties. Two Gays and lesbian groups joined the parade in 2015. The organizers of one of the groups, Boston Pride, terminated the move as one point at that time.

Chicago organized his St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday. Philadelphia also celebrated its parade on Sunday and New York City.

Related stories: Salt Lake City celebrates the 47th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Siamsa