New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade wasn’t the first…but it is the largest   (1601) 161 years before the New York City gathering there was the first ever recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade in the United States.  The 1601 parade was to simply honor St. Patrick.   (1737) 25 years before the New York City gathering … Continue reading History of St. Patrick’s Day Parade and The Migration of Irish to America-A Timeline