St. Patrick’s Day Parade Celebrates Boston Heritage in America’s Most Irish Big City

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Celebrates Boston Heritage in America’s Most Irish Big City
Spectators celebrate during the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston on March 16, 2025. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
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BOSTON—Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city on Sunday for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Green, white, and orange confetti—the national colors of the Emerald Isle—rained down along parts of the 3.5-mile route. Parade floats and marchers wound through the neighborhood of South Boston, a center of Irish-American heritage in a city where more than 1 in every 5 people are of Irish descent.