In honor of this month’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, 27 sites around Ireland will be illuminated with green lighting from March 14 - 18.
The Journal reports that Ireland’s Office of Public Works has announced that 27 buildings and national monuments will be lit up green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
The 27 Irish sites will be joining a wide array of other global sites that are set to go green for the holiday as well. Outside of Ireland, spots including the Pyramids at Giza, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Empire State Building in New York City, among many others.
However, one spot that made news last week by opting not to go green for the holiday is Buckingham Palace in London.
As per the Irish Office of Public Works, the 27 sites to be illuminated during the St. Patrick’s Day festival are:
Leinster House (Merrion St side and Kildare St side).
Government Buildings
Dept. Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation (Kildare St.)
National Gallery (Merrion St. side)
Dublin Castle Lower Yard (Part of the Chapel Royal & Palace St. Entrance)
Dublin Castle Upper Yard (2 Statues & Clock Tower)
Four Courts
Custom House
Casino Marino
Marlborough Street Complex
National Concert Hall (NCH)
Entrance to St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St. Corner)
Entrance to St. Stephen’s Green (Shelbourne Hotel Corner)
Collins Barracks (Front facing River Liffey)
Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) – Clock tower
Natural History Museum
Rock of Cashel
Phoenix Park – Wellington Monument
Phoenix Park – Phoenix Monument
Áras an Uachtaráin
Farmleigh – Water Tower
Iveagh House
War Memorial Park (Cross and 2 Fountains)
Ross Castle, Co. Kerry
Trim Castle, Co. Meath
Cahir Castle, Co. Tipperary
Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.JEANTOOHEY | Mar 08, 2013, 10:17 AM EST
What a great marketing initiative. It will sure look good and remind people of the day and of Ireland.
Seanmor | Mar 07, 2013, 10:58 PM EST
WounderK; You are so right. In recent years Arabs, Indians and Africans are warmly embrased as the "New Irish" while those of us who were raised there and emigrated to the UJ.S. are perceived to be sentimentl fools, misguided patriots and bloody eejits. That is especially true of the Gaeilgeoiri in our midst - yet the Free Staters want out tourists $$$s.
Searlit | Mar 07, 2013, 06:50 PM EST
IrelandNorth, I agree. That would have been sweet thing to do.
WoundedKnee | Mar 07, 2013, 02:55 PM EST
Eireannach- "now it's just pandering to the tourist industry". That's nonsense. The last time I was in Dublin for 3/17 (never again) the place was full of IRISH drunks getting sick in the street, IRISH teenagers engaging in sex acts in the alleys, IRISH thugs threatening and cursing at all and sundry. The only place I didn't see IRISH people was in the Parade--it was full of Africans and Pakistanis.
IrelandNorth | Mar 07, 2013, 01:48 PM EST
Surely they could've found five more sites to illuminate?
Searlit | Mar 07, 2013, 12:13 PM EST
Why not add some blue in there? Wasn't Ireland's original national color blue?
Eireannach | Mar 07, 2013, 09:09 AM EST
what is the point? Nobody cares about the saint or religion that much. It's just a pathetic waste of electricity. StPatricks day in Ireland used to be 'celebrated' with a bit of shamrock - now it's just pandering to the tourist industry.