Schedule of Events March 16, 2013 8:00 AM - Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church St. Patrick's Day Parade 9:00 AM - Stage on Radcliffe Street 10:00 AM - Step Off 11:30 AM (Approx) - Raising of the Irish Flag over City Hall On March 16, 2013 we will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with our 16th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. In 1996 a group of men from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a group originally founded in Ireland in the early 1500's, marched down King Street; thus resurrecting Charleston's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.