St. Patrick’s Day is a primarily Irish celebrated holiday that comes around every year in the month of March, and is actually celebrated by many different individuals and families all around the world. The holiday has gone a long way from its origins and actual meaning, similar to many other commercialized modern holidays, but is now celebrated quite readily by large regions of the planet especially Catholics. Whether you personally partake in this holiday or not, here are some interesting traditions and activities from how people around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Montserrat
In the Caribbean lies an island country known as Montserrat, which hosts an entire 10 day long festival and considers St. Patrick’s Day a public holiday unlike many other celebrating countries. It features plenty of interesting activities like Kite Festival, competitions, and more. This is also to celebrate the country’s first slave rebellion.
Chicago, Illinois
Probably the most festive for the holiday in the United States is the city of Chicago in Illinois. Chicago colors its entire river with environmentally safe green dye in spirit of the time, and later hosts a massive St. Patrick’s Day parade with many traditionally Irish factors in the show. Thousands of people come to see these festivities each year.
Japan
For almost 27 years now, Tokyo has been a main part of the festivities on St. Patrick’s Day with its own special parade and festival themed around the holiday as well as Ireland as a whole, taking place across the 16 and 17 of March each year. This two days is considered Asia’s largest Irish festival, and it’s quite unique.
London, England
With such close proximity to the never ending St. Paddy’s Day activities in Ireland, England had to show up with some great ideas too. London’s parade travels across the city for hours passing some of the city’s important landmarks then meets up at Trafalgar Square where a huge entertainment festival kicks off featuring live music.
Germany
Munich has been Germany’s center for this Irish celebration and this year is planning to be their biggest event for the holiday thus far. It will span an entire weekend and feature an Irish fair, a parade, and even a street food festival. The entertainment and activities are never-ending in this town for St. Patrick’s Day.
Whether or not St. Patrick’s Day is important to you and your family is a matter of personal preference as well as regional habits, culture, religion, and history. But there are plenty of ways to celebrate or to witness the world’s version of this holiday such as these many interesting stories here today. If you want to visit somewhere interesting for the holiday this makes a great list for ideas, and if you’re just learning something new today we hope at least one of the tidbits on this list was a new thought for you about how people around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.