St. Patrick's Day, is just some weeks away and all it means is... The Largest Annual Party of Ireland. This year St. Patrick's Festival will be rocking from March 15th to 19th 2007.
Saint Patrick's Festival, definitely, has now become the prime annual event in the country providing entertainment for all ages and interests. The Festival programme includes music, theatre, family carnivals, comedy, street arts, visual arts, dance, a treasure hunt, symposium, cavalcades of cars, in all some 4000 performers, about 1.5 million spectators and 4 days of cantabiles festival fun for all!
Last year, St. Patrick's celebrations were an epic programme, as the festival celebrated 10 year anniversary with an exciting programme of 60 events over five days seeing over one million people amalgamating in the merriment. Over the past 10 years the Festival bloomed into a justly international display of Irish celebration.
Starting from Thursday 15th March, there will be four or five events to opt from each day, as the city is going to be overhauled with festival fervour, with Irish people and visitors uniting in the festivities to mark the mesmerizing national holiday.
St. Patrick's Festival 2007, is just here some weeks ahead. And all we need is your prestigious time to come and participate in the enchanting activities prior to the festival. (i.e. planning the festival) Keep browsing Dublinevents.com for the latest updates of strategies for all time desires like the Parade, Sky fest and perhaps even some strange shockers! Why was it started?St. Patrick's Festival was set up in November 1995 with the following brief from Government:
* Offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebration in the world.
* Create energy and excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity.
* Provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent (and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.
* Project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal, as we approach the new Millennium.
The first St Patrick's Festival was held over one day, and night, on March 17th 1996. With a little over four months in which to effect change, the main object was to demonstrate that changes were afoot and starting the process away from "just a parade". The live audience for the day was estimated to be 430,000.
In 1997, the word "Day" was dropped from the title and it became "St. Patrick's Festival", a three day event. The festival has since grown to become a four day festival and in 2001, it was enjoyed by 1.2million people.
Preparation for the first St Patrick's Festival used to take only 5 months, but with the growth of the Festival, it now takes 18 months to plan for Ireland's biggest annual celebration. |
