‘We think in terms of the entire month of March’: How St Patrick’s Day has become a very big deal in New York City’s ‘Little Ireland’
Thousands were expected to descend again this weekend for a multi-day outdoor street celebration, culminating on St Patrick’s Day. To Danny McDonald, owner of Stone Street’s Ulysses’ Folkhouse, St Patrick’s Day has become “a bit like Halloween. Beckett’s, Ulysses’ and other Stone Street businesses, for example, collaborate to share the costs of necessities from security and promotion to outdoor bathrooms. St Patrick’s Day fun on Stone Street, ManhattanMcGarry and his Dead Rabbit partners now start planning for Paddy’s Day around Christmas. I don’t see that ending.”There’s no fear of these industry veterans becoming jaded by the occasional ‘Oirish’ excesses of St Patrick’s Day in the US.
Source: Irish Independent March 15, 2026 11:36 UTC
