Each March for the past 183 years, Downtown transforms into a vibrant celebration of Irish pride for the Greater New Haven St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade. As Connecticut\u2019s largest single-day spectator event, this beloved tradition has been drawing crowds since 1842.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, March 16, the St. Paddy\u2019s Day parade returns with marching bands, festive floats, and high-energy Irish step dancers to the streets of downtown \u2014along with plenty of Guinness [inside the pubs]\u00a0 to keep the celebrations going. Step-off time is 1:30 pm.\u00a0 With downtown buzzing from morning to night, this is one event you won\u2019t want to miss.\u00a0 Want to know how this tradition began?\u00a0Dive into the parade\u2019s history in our blog post here.\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each March for the past 183 years, Downtown transforms into a vibrant celebration of Irish pride for the Greater New Haven St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade. As Connecticut\u2019s largest single-day spectator event, this beloved tradition has been drawing crowds since 1842. On Sunday, March 16, the St. Paddy\u2019s Day parade returns with marching bands, festive floats, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[671,672],"tags":[665,657,645],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-e-newsletter","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-events-and-festivals","tag-history-and-heritage","tag-winter"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a4617d83-3677-f46b-ef74-8db3d118d204-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a4617d83-3677-f46b-ef74-8db3d118d204-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a4617d83-3677-f46b-ef74-8db3d118d204-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"full":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a4617d83-3677-f46b-ef74-8db3d118d204.jpg",1200,675,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}