It stands to reason she would have witnessed the St. Patrick's Day Parade at least once. After all, she was Catholic and Irish and baptized at St. Patrick's Church in Cork, Ireland, in 1874 by Father John Falvey. When she arrived in New York in 1892, the 'new' parade route had just been established—a march up Fifth Avenue, right past St. Patrick's "New" Cathedral, where today's parade will proudly follow.
Dad was among the last immigrants to be processed at Ellis Island, which made this post mean all the more to me. Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit'.