Cleveland celebrates its 183rd St. Patrick's Day Parade

On this day 183 years ago, Cleveland celebrated his first parade to St. Patrick's Day.

While a lot has changed in the city, the spirit that began and maintained the annual tradition remains the same.

“I like to see all the people disguised, to be festive, have fun,” said a paradise on Monday.

St. Patrick's Day is a time to celebrate Cleveland's rich Irish heritage. It is also a day when all green bleeding and hearts on the same drum and bagpiper -humen -Marching -Abenue.

“My daughter is in the parade,” said Sasha Robertson.

Her 14 -year -old daughter plays the trumpet in Maple Heights.

Robertson said she was also excited to get a classic beef from Cleveland Corned.

Cleveland's St. Patrick's Day Parade is one of the largest in the country. It has everything and like most things in Cleveland, it is the people who do it great.

There were so many people in green outfits from head to toe, even to the fingertips!

“Green manicure,” laughed a woman from her street seat.

People in large, funny glasses and many small children in their best in St. Paddy.

“I woke up this morning and found this glasses in my room,” Finn said about his rainbow with a pot-of-gold glasses on his face. “You are out of the goblin!”

Finn was there with his parents and siblings and said that he was most excited to see the swimmers!

Everyone at the parade was also excited to see the sun on Monday, a day that was cooler than usual.

“However, it doesn't matter what the weather is because we would come, no matter what happens,” said Lamar Shepherd with his family.

The parade is a family tradition for many who pack the Parade route.

Like Pat Byrne, a city block grabs with dozens of family members from different generations.

He said he had come to parade for decades – since he was as big as the big baby he was now holding in his arms.

“It means a lot because we are Irish,” he smiled.

While it is a day of the celebration, it is also a time to take the break and remember service and victims.

In front of the parade, Cleveland has another tradition of St. Patrick's Day: the annual monument to fallen firefighters.

There have been 80 fallen brothers since 1869. The youngest was Johnny Tetrick in 2022, added only last year.

A new name was reminded on Monday.

The Kadett Timothy Graham, the only Cleveland Fire Cadet who has ever lost, died in 1888 by injuries suffering from pompier ladders during training.

“We honor those who have brought the ultimate victim by never teaching the lessons they have taught and the love they left behind,” said Jake Konys, President of the Cleveland Firefighters' Association. “No greater love than lying down life for your own fellow human beings.”

Service and victims are also on display at superior.

And in the spirit of the day a popular Irish blessing: wherever you go and whatever you do, the happiness of the Irish may be there with you. An unspoken topic of a popular tradition that has been marching for generations of Clevelanders.

“And you will come here for the next 100 years if you can,” Byrne smiled about his family, who took part in the parade of Cleveland St. Patrick's Day.

The parade begins in the Superior Avenue and the East 18th Street and drives west on the superior towards public square. It will remain on this route next year, but the discussions will last what the upcoming project of Cleveland Midway could mean for his future route.

This project will call up the Superior Avenue with a bike path and make the area safer for the driver and pedestrian.