On This Day, March 17: British evacuate Boston amid American Revolution

Are fairies and leprechauns demonic? And what happened to Barabbas?

Question Corner: Are fairies and leprechauns demonic? And what happened to Barabbas?

Monday Memories: Looking for Irish fun at the end of the line in 1989

Many Americans claim a wee bit of Irish ancestry on St. Patrick’s Day, a chance to wear green, whoop it up and celebrate Celtic culture. In this 1989 Blade archive photo, Pat Connolly sits at the front of the Bus 29, blowing a noisemaker in celebration. The decoration just behind the driver wishes riders a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for the Maumee-Waterville 29’ers. In America, the holiday is celebrated with wearing green, eating Jigg’s dinners, li…

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Celebrates Boston Heritage in America’s Most Irish Big City

BOSTON—Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city on Sunday for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade. Green, white, and orange confetti—the national colors of the Emerald Isle—rained down along parts of the 3.5-mile route. Parade floats and marchers wound through the neighborhood of South Boston, a center of Irish-American heritage in a city where more than 1 in every 5 people are …

On This Day, March 17: British evacuate Boston amid American Revolution

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

13 facing charges, bushels of 'borgs' confiscated during St. Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston

This year’s South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade started earlier to curb last year’s public drinking and violence, which led to 11 arrests.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade: South Boston brings out the green beer, Irish flags again for revamped celebrations

The streets of South Boston ran green with Irish pride Sunday morning, as revelers poured out for the earlier, stricter edition of Southies annual St. Patrick’s/Evacuation Day Parade. “This is Boston’s finest,” Southie resident Casey Collins shouted over the roar of Bostonians singing along to “Sweet Caroline” as a musical float rolled by on 5th St. “We love our town, we love each other, and we love a good time.” The city’s 120th-annual St. Padd…