World's wackiest St. Patrick's Day celebrations

Try visiting Honolulu where the last St Patrick's Day Parade occurs every year in Waikiki. West from here you cross the dateline so we are the Last Hurrah each year. Mind you it is one of the most pleasant places to celebrate each year with daytime temperatures in the mid 80's and lows at night around 78. Slainte!

Also, my cousin in Savannah, Georgia-sez they have a pretty wicked parade down there as well. I've never been tho..

I recall St. Patty's day as being a mostly religious event in the old days in Eire'. One went to Mass-wearing a bit of green was nice , but not mandatory.

I live in Boston!! We have a great parade in Southie!!! Happy St. Patricks Day to all!!!

You missed a very special place for St. Patrick's Day. Syracuse NY, second only to NYC's parade. Some thing no one else has is on Tipperary Hill "Here is the world-famous intersection in Syracuse, where the green light is located at the top. Yes, this is because this was an Irish neighborhood, and the local residents did not want a red light on top, because it represented the British to them." Check it out!

I think you should look up the Montreal Parade which is the 2nd Largest after New York and it never missed a year since 1848 We get 4-500,000 on the street. WAKE UP WE ARE YOUR NEIGHBOURS.

Check out the St. Patrick's Day parade they have in Leadville, Colorado. They have it on Sept. 17 because it is too cold up there in the highest incorporatedtown in USA on March 17! The "parade" consists of a flatbed truck with a band (of sorts) and a car with the mayor. It is about one block long and ends up in the various saloons in this old gold-mining town which was settled by many Irish.

I believe Mexico also has March 17 as a national holiday-in honor of the great San Patristas. These great U.S.Army Irish Catholics were tortured, murdered and humiliated under the terrible command of General Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American war of the 1840's- because they were CATHOLIC! They had a chance to be free and practice their Catholic faith in Catholic Mexico. Our U.S. goverment stole by war, one third of Mexico's land illegally. The Alamo and Texas was Mexico's as was much of the South west. See the great movie"One Man's Hero" a true story- based on historical facts if you are a 100% TRUE IRISH CATHOLIC!!!

Seems you overlooked the only interstate St. Patrick's parade in the United States. The Quad Cities Twenty-Fifth Annual Grand Parade In Honor Of St. Patrick, March 13, 11:30 am, beginning in downtown Rock Island, ILLINOIS, then crosses the Mississippi River and proceeds through downtown Davenport, IOWA. Join with us. Mortas cine.

Is that picture of the guy dressed up like a clown representative of how IrishCentral views St Patrick's Day? I can understand people who don't like the Irish very much promoting an image that trivializes the holiday as a day to get wacky and drunk, but do you have to follow their example? 10-to-1 the guy dressed up like that for St Patrick's Day isn't even Irish. How about promoting St Patrick's Day as a day to take PRIDE in your Irish heritage rather than dress up in a leprechaun outfit?

The Boll Weevil monument in Enterprise, Alabama is in tribute to the pest that made the area diversify its agriculture from cotton to include soy beans and peanuts. It's a huge, ugly thing, but quite interesting. We live just north of there and have seen it several times.