The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade (depicted above) was held, not in Dublin,
but on lower Broadway in New York in 1762 by homesick ex-patriots and Irish soldiers serving in the British army stationed in the American colonies in New York city.
17
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FIRST ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE ON THIS DATE IN 1756
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