On average some 120.000 marchers take between 5 and 6 hours to pass the reviewing stand. The parade is 14 years older than the Independence of thn United States. beginning in 1762. It Is an Irish parade. it is an American institution. ii celebrates the fact that the immigrant and the native both have the freedom of the city and religious liberty on the streets of America. For over a century the parade has been run by the New York County Board of the Ancient Order of Hibernlans. an Irish Catholic fraternal organization active in New York since 1836. Since 1852 the traditional military escort of the New York St.
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