St Patrick's Day Emerald Experience

St. Patrick’s Festival in Galway

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Galway will have a St Patrick’s Day parade in 2023 with what is shaping up to be the largest St Patrick’s Day spectacle the city has ever seen. Galway City Council is expected to organise a series of events over the course of the bank holiday weekend in March from 17th to the 19th March 2023, to celebrate Ireland’s national holiday.

Learn all about the life of St Patrick, Ireland’s Patron Saint here.

Parade Route for 2024

The revised parade route (first used in 2019) is expected remain in place for 2024, with participants marching from University Road, over the Salmon Weir Bridge, to Eglinton Street and onwards past the viewing stand at Eyre Square and concluding on Prospect Hill.