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Monthly Archives: March 2018

St. Patrick’s Day started in Florida, not Boston, USF professor says

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 by admin

The history was written and accepted. The first St. Patrick’s Day celebration on U.S. soil happened in Boston in 1737. The first parade? That other epicenter of Irish American immigration, New York City, 1762.Continue reading→

La Florida española celebró San Patricio un siglo antes que los irlandeses de Boston y Nueva York

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 by admin

La investigación histórica de los más de 300 años de historia española en lo que hoy es Estados Unidos sigue arrojando datos sorprendentes. Continue reading→

The incredible story of America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 by admin

The story of America’s first known Saint Patrick’s Day celebration begins and ends not in an Irish-American enclave of Boston or New York but in the crumbling colonial splendor of Seville, Spain.Continue reading→

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