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St. Patrick's Festival is now by far the biggest annual event in Ireland providing entertainment for all interests and ages. The Festival programme has music, theatre, family carnivals, comedy, street arts, visual arts, dance, a treasure hunt, symposiums, and cavalcades of vintage cars. All together there are 4,000 performers enjoyed by 1.5 million spectators over 5 days of fantastic fun.

It's not just a feast for the eyes, your taste buds can get in on the action too. In association with St. Patrick's Festival, Tastefest is a multi-cultural food festival that's not just for foodies. Taster portions from Japan, Malaysia, India, Turkey, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland and beyond are sampled with "Tastefest Tokens". With the food Tastefest features cookery demonstrations, beverage tasings, and live entertainment.

St Patrick's Festival was set up in 1995 to offer a national festival ranking amongst the greatest celebrations in the world. It's an opportunity for people of Irish descent (and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.

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