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The St. Patrick’s Day parade (and dying green of the Chicago River) in Chicago should be a cultural requirement for all Irish Americans. In our trip to the City this year, we stayed in the Financial District, producing the wonderful people watching experience of celebratory train passengers exiting the downtown Amtrak station from Milwaukee and Philadelphia draped in their green, before they headed off for a myriad of shenanigans on the Saturday morning of the parade.

Congratulations, to the 2026 St. Patrick's Day Honorees

Lúnasa spends early March in Ohio, with stops at the beautifully restored Holland Theater in Bellefontaine, an hour northwest of Columbus, on March 6, followed by a show at the Shamrock Club March 11. New York City’s newest Irish Rock sensation The Narrowbacks return to the city following their debut performance at the 2025 Dublin Irish Festival. They play Saturday night, March 14, at Byrne’s Pub.

healthy debate and exploration of what our pre-Christian ancestors believed, rejecting the colonial characterizations offered by Norman and English invaders to justify their military conquests, is like that noble goal of Wolfe Tone and the United Irishman to create an independent Ireland which welcomes Catholic, Protestant, and Dissenter.

Irish Culture in Appalachia To kick off the New Year, the Columbus Irish column will take a trip southeast into Appalachia. For a few columns...