Since the main focus of St. Patrick's Day is the holiday celebrating the patron saint of Ireland, it was actually immigrants from Ireland to North America, specifically Boston and New York York – which first propagated the annual event. It was in 1737 that the first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in Boston, Massachusetts. Following Boston was the New York City parade in 1762. From there many traditions were created, one of which is that Chicago has dyed its river green since 1962. This tradition was first formed by Steven Bailey, a man who thought he could dye the whole lake green. , which would then flow down the Chicago River to eventually reach the Irish Sea. Bailey saw it as a gift to Ireland, even if he never actually got there. Along with green rivers, food, faces, clothes and even beer represented the Emerald clover. The color green, combined with the shade of the Shamrock, became the color of St. Patrick's Day in the Western world, although in Ireland it was usually blue. 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 small and there were rarely parades. If there were parades or celebrations, they were predominantly 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 event of St. Patrick's Day took place at Dublin Castle for the privileged Anglo-Irish members. In 1950, the first major attempt to revive St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Ireland (King and Sisson 2011). Although revisions have been made, no changes have taken effect...... half of the 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 Story of St. Patrick's Day. London: Routledge, 2002.Flood, J.M. Ireland: Its Saints and Scholars. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1970. Irish Studies. Irish life and traditions. 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, OR.: Four Courts Press, 2011.O'Raifeartaigh, Tarlach. Encyclopedia Britannica online. 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/446636/Saint-Patrick (accessed November 21, 2013).