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AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty spectators celebrate during St. Patrick's Day Parade, Sunday, March 16, in Boston, Messe.

Boston-die Schamrock-Felder with green-dressed, shame rock-feasted night swords on Sunday the streets of the American Irish big city fulfilled for the parade in South Boston St. Patrick's Day.

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.

Alex Brough from Bedford, Massachusetts, belonged to those along the Parade route, which included parts of the Broadway, the thoroughfare of the district.

“It was nice to see all the groups that entered floating bodies and everything else in the parade that included the crowd,” he said. “It's great to see how everyone comes out and enjoy the day.”

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.

Brough found that people mainly behaved according to violence and public poisoning last year. The organizers of the parade lifted the beginning of the celebrations and the neighborhood leader before the “Zero Tolerance” before Sunday before Rowdiness and Shenanigans.

Before the parade, the transit police released a photo on social media with a bunch of clear garbage bags with confiscated alcohol, including gallon size filled with green liquid.

“A lot of alcohol is probably consumed today,” Brough 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 US Court of Justice, which 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 change 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.