The Best Places to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Jordana Weiss | March 18, 2019

Galway

Although international tourists tend to flock to Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day, most Irish people skip the massive competition for seats in Temple Bar pubs and head west to Galway instead.

Galway does host a St. Patrick’s Day parade (and has for the last 117 years), but it’s much more low-key and community-oriented than Dublin’s. Instead of only celebrating Irish history, all community groups are welcome to walk in the Galway St. Patrick’s Day parade. This year expect to see groups like the Salsa Latin Dancers Community Group, Coder Dojo, and the Galway Filipino Irish Community.

People definitely come to Galway to drink, but they tend to do so with groups of friends and family instead of in huge crowds of strangers.

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