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Newport St. Patrick's Day Parade in Newport
The Newport St. Patrick's Day Parade is an annual parade held in Newport, Rhode Island, marking Saint Patrick's Day, and is recognized among the longer continuously running Irish-American parades in the United States. The parade moves through Newport's historic downtown streets with marching bands, floats, and community organizations.
Saint Patrick's Day parades became a fixture of American civic life as Irish immigrant communities established themselves in cities across the country from the nineteenth century onward, using the March 17 feast day as an occasion for public displays of community pride, religious observance, and, over time, broader civic celebration open to the entire community regardless of heritage.