As the main focus of St. Patrick's Day was the celebration of the patron saint of Ireland, it was actually about immigrants from Ireland to America of the North, particularly Boston and New York. York – who was the first to propagate the annual event. The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1737. After Boston, there was the New York City Parade in 1762. Many traditions were created from there, one being that Chicago has dyed its river green since 1962. This tradition was formed to the first time by Steven Bailey, a man who thought he could dye the entire lake green. , which would then flow down the Chicago River to finally reach the Irish Sea. Bailey saw it as a gift to Ireland, even if he never quite achieved it. Along with green rivers, food, faces, clothing and even beer represented the emerald clover. The color green, hypothetically with the hue of Shamrock, became the color of St. Patrick's Day according to the Western world, although in Ireland it was usually blue. While targeting tourists, Ireland adopted the color green (Britannica 2013). Traditionally, in the second half of the 19th century, St. Patrick's Day celebrations were very minimal and there were rarely parades. If there were parades or festivities, they were primarily controlled by temperance societies and religious groups. Seeing uniformed soldiers marching through the streets of Dublin was not a desirable sight for the Irish public. The most important St. Patrick's Day event took place for the Anglo-Irish privileged members at Dublin Castle. 1950 saw the first major attempt to revive St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Ireland (King and Sisson 2011). Although revisions were made, no changes had an effect... middle of document ......terpret&idGALE%7CA53885203&v=2.1&u=otta77973&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&authCont=1 (accessed November 19 2013).Connery, Donald S. The Irish. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Cronin, Mike and Daryl Adair. Wearing Green: A St. Patrick's Day Story. London: Routledge, 2002. Flood, JM Ireland: Its Saints and Scholars. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1970. Irish Studies. Irish life and traditions. Edited by Sharon Gmelch. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1986. King, Linda and Elaine Sisson. Ireland, design and visual culture: negotiating modernity 1922-1992. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011. O Riain, Padraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Portland, Oregon: Four Courts Press, 2011. O’Raifeartaigh, Tarlach. Encyclopædia Britannica online. 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/446636/Saint-Patrick (accessed November 21, 2013).