Erin Go Bragh: Nashuans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Writer | Mar 18, 2019
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Killarney's Irish Pub bartender Becky Levesque is decked out in green for Sunday's St. Patrick's Day festivities, which capped a weekend-long series of special events to mark what many consider a holiday.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
St. Patrick's Day revelers lean in for one of the many cellphone photos that were taken during the festivities at Killarney's Irish Pub in Nashua. From left are Jen Lapierre, Lisa Havee, Danny Shultz and Paula Brennan.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Entertainer Kieran McNally, who has headlined the St. Patrick's Day festivities at Killarney's Irish Pub in Nashua for more than 30 years, teamed up with fellow musician Gary Bourassa for Sunday's marathon session to cap a busy weekend at the pub.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Regular Killarney's Irish Pub visitor Heather Bartlett leads a St. Patrick's Day toast as the annual festivities got underway Sunday.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Steve Clinton sports what was probably the tallest Guinness hat while celebrating St. Patrick's Day Sunday at Killarney's Irish Pub in Nashua.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Steve Clinton sports what was probably the tallest Guinness hat while celebrating St. Patrick’s Day Sunday at Killarney’s Irish Pub in Nashua.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Killarney’s Irish Pub bartender Becky Levesque is decked out in green for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities, which capped a weekend-long series of special events to mark what many consider a holiday.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
St. Patrick’s Day revelers lean in for one of the many cellphone photos that were taken during the festivities at Killarney’s Irish Pub in Nashua. From left are Jen Lapierre, Lisa Havee, Danny Shultz and Paula Brennan.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Entertainer Kieran McNally, who has headlined the St. Patrick’s Day festivities at Killarney’s Irish Pub in Nashua for more than 30 years, teamed up with fellow musician Gary Bourassa for Sunday’s marathon session to cap a busy weekend at the pub.
Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP
Regular Killarney’s Irish Pub visitor Heather Bartlett leads a St. Patrick’s Day toast as the annual festivities got underway Sunday.
Wearing green beads, tiaras, crowns, hats, theme T-shirts and flashing necklaces and shamrocks, folks in Greater Nashua flocked to their favorite watering holes Sunday to join the revelry that comes around every March 17.
In Nashua, Killarney’s Irish Pub and the Peddlers Daughter appeared to draw the most revelers. Around noontime, a fairly manageable line of a dozen or so people had formed at Peddlers, which had reached capacity.
That St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Sunday seemed to delay the arrival of celebrants over at Killarney’s, where security personnel and the gatekeepers saw a steady line rather than the crowd that typically forms as soon as the doors open at noon.
Some pubs and restaurants that don’t have an Irish theme still celebrated the day by offering food and drink specials and encouraging customers to deck themselves out in green.
As of Sunday evening, no serious incidents had been reported in Greater Nashua.