St. Patrick's Day brings exuberant parades and celebrations to New York and other cities

New York (AP) – St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, was marked on Monday with exuberant parades and celebrations in the USA.

School marching bands and traditional Irish pipe and drum ensembles have reduced the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan with uniformed police and the fire brigade in New York City, in which one of the largest and oldest parades in the country take place.

When a slight morning rain fell, the rolling celebration made itself north on designer shops and St. Patrick's Cathedral, a breathtaking Neo -Gothic, which is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Mayor Eric Adams attracted a green hat and a scarf and waved an Irish flag, while the Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan welcomed the marchers with a green, white and orange sash – the national colors of the Emerald Isle.

“It is fantastic to be here,” said Ryan Hanlon, deputy chairman of the parade board. “We are getting a little rain at the moment, but as we call it it is just liquid sunshine.”

About 800 miles south of Savannah overcrowded thousands of night owls in bright green costumes the sidewalks and the oak shadow squares as the largest parade of the St. Patrick's Day parade in the south through the historical city of Georgia.

Children to plastic horns and adult UPS raised their beers, as the whistle and drum straps marched and pickup trucks dragged with Shamrock-decorated swimmers.

Lindsey Dodd, who has been coming to Savannah's parade for about 15 years, wore green hair, green lipstick and shamrock decorated socks when her group set up chairs in a first-class place for parade watching.

“I just enjoy the celebrations, people who watch, the chaos,” she said. “Savannah only has something special.”

Big celebrations also began in other American communities, including the Resort Town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, who claims that the 98-foot route is the shortest parade to St. Patrick's Day in the world.

The water of the fountain of the White House was colored green, a tradition of President Barack Obama.

Some of the American cities that were most changed by the Irish immigration organized festivals at the weekend. Chicago, who turned his name keys River Hellgrün with dye, celebrated on Saturday. Boston and Philadelphia organized their parades on Sunday.

The Irish capital Dublin culminated her three -day festival over the pond. Cities like Liverpool, England, another city that was changed by the Irish immigration also organized celebrations for the festival day of St. Patrick.

The parades are supposed to commemorate the protection of Ireland, but have become a celebration of the Irish heritage worldwide

The parade on Monday in Manhattan was to stop the previous afternoon and ended on the east side of the Central Park, about 35 blocks from the location. The New York celebration, now in the 264th year, dated 1762 – 14 years before the United States' declaration of independence.

The Savannah parade was its 200th anniversary a year ago and followed its origin on the day when Irish immigrants marched into the church in 1824.

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Bynum reported Savannah.