Saint Patrick’s Day Parades Around Ireland, 1977
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- Thousands turn out to see Saint Patrick’s Day parades held in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.
In Dublin the Lord Mayor James Mitchell and the Lady Mayoress Patricia Mitchell were driven from the Mansion House in the Lord Mayor’s coach to the reviewing stand at the General Post Office on O’Connell Street. Thousands of people stood in the rain along the two mile route to watch the parade which took 90 minutes to pass.
The parade featured a variety of floats and 40 bands, six of which came from northern Ireland and seven from overseas. A huge number of children took part many of them from dancing schools around the country.
In spite of the rain, thousands of people also lined the streets of Cork to watch the hour long industrial, cultural and agricultural parade. The Minister for Transport and Power Peter Barry took the salute on specially erected platform on the South Mall.
A group of children described as Fianna Éireann took part in the parade led by adults wearing military attire and dark glasses. As soon as the Minister saw them he sat down and refused to recognise them. The parade organisers erroneously believed Fianna Éireann to be a boy scout organisation.
Some 2,000 people took part in the Limerick parade that was reviewed by Minister for the Gaeltacht Tom O’Donnell. Also present on the reviewing stand were the Mayor, Senator Ted Russell and members of Limerick Corporation. Over 25,000 people watched the parade which took 40 minutes to pass the reviewing stand.
The colourful Galway parade, reflecting aspects of life in the West, consisted of 25 floats and many marching groups, including a band from Holland. From the reviewing stand in Eyre Square, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O’Brien spoke out against the latest IRA campaign of violence.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 17 March 1977.
Beautiful ireland we must get it back again.
Back in the day when the only Africans in the country were either ambassadors or on the trócaire boxes 😊
Your man at the end with the windy comb over had to ruin the party
Boo whoo you mister 😅😂☘️🇮🇪
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Back when it was irish people doing the floats. Now they need to do "inclusiveness " and have tuned it from a parade to a carnival.
@@gogol293oh yeah, seeing as you asked.
@@max__painyeah, but that's Cork, it's the greatest city in the world. Just ask anyone from there, and they'll tell you.
..so get off your seat & jump around!
Saint Patrick was a very great and most holy man, would he have approved of all this glitter and razmataz or would he have been more concerned about the poor and ill of our world or the brutalized, bombed, shot and starved people of Gaza? I am sure that St Patrick would be far more concerned about the people in need. St Patrick would say to hell with war and conflict
Hamas are withholding aid and staving their own people.
Also what did Ireland do when the Jews of the world were slaughtered in the Holocaust? What did they do when Jews slaughtered in Iran,Algeria,Yemen,Egypt and all over the middle east in 1947? I know in the cinemas in Galway they cheered when shown Holocaust footage. They also cheered the Oct 7th attacks.
Well it's a holy day of obligation where one ought not work, like Sundays. I don't get the idea of parades tbh