Poland celebrating St.Patrick's Day

This year, St Patrick’s Festival brought together many events taking place across Poland. Concerts, exhibitions, lectures and other events celebrating Ireland’s music, dance, culture and food were held across the country throughout the past week.

Launching the celebrations on Monday, in the western Polish city of Poznan, the Irish Ambassador Emer O’Connell stressed that the popularity of St. Patrick’s Day and Irish culture in Poland is helped by the strong people-to-people ties between Ireland and Poland. “The Polish community, around three per cent of Ireland’s population, are a valued and welcome part of Irish life, while Polish is now Ireland’s most spoken foreign language” she told Radio Poland.

Several Polish cities celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by turning landmark buildings green on 17 March.The Palace of Culture in the capital Warsaw, the Town Hall in the western city of Poznań, and the Teutonic Knights Castle in Malbork in the north of the country will be among Polish buildings that will go green as part of the wider Global Greening project on Sunday.