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| 2010 Atlanta St Patrick's Day Parade | |||||
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| Starts: | 2010-03-13 - 12:00 PM | Ends: | 2010-03-13 - 2:00 PM | ||
| Event Type: | Parade | ||||
| Sponsor: | Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade Inc | ||||
| URL: | http://www.stpatsparadeatlanta.com/ | ||||
| Location: | Peachtree Street and Ralph McGill Atlanta, GA 31156 US |
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678-754-5834 |
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2010 will be the largest, best attended St. Patrick's Parade & Festival since the first Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade held 152 years ago, in 1858. The parade ends at Fabulous Underground Atlanta with Vendors, Food and FREE Entertainment, Music & Dancing. There will be other events throughout the city.
The 2010 Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade will have over 200 units, including clowns, floats, bands of every kind, military units, Bagpipe & Drum Corps, thousands of children (OUR REASON FOR CELEBRATING), Irish dancers, clowns, high tech firefighting equipment, police units, drill teams, dogs, horses, antique cars, dignitaries from Ireland, and our own Government leaders.
Historically Atlanta is strongly associated with the Irish. The thriving city of Atlanta had many well established Irish businessmen, tradesmen and farmers at a time when some cities limited immigration by the Irish. At one time all five City Councilmen were Irish. Atlanta's fire department had many Irish... |
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