St. Patrick's Day Parade - Queenstown 1912 to Cobh 2012

Well done to 'See You in Cobh' who organised the St. Patrick's Day Parade. What a great job gang!!!

The theme for this year's event was looking back to Cobh in 1912 the year that the Titanic called into Queenstown as its last port of call. Queenstown, or Cobh as it was called, hasn't changed much in the intervening 100 years. Many of the buildings and streetscapes are still the same. Cobh today is just almost identical as when the final 123 passengers who boarded Titanic would have seen it.

Back then the Commodore was known as the Queens Hotel and at the time was one of the first purpose built hotels in the country. The hotel was almost similar inside and out as it is today, 100 years later.

The parade today was one of the biggest in years. Not only were there more participants but there was certainly more spectators. This year the parade took a different route, starting out at the old railway station, which recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. It then continued along Westbourne Place, in front of the hotel and finished in Casement Square where the viewing stand was located directly opposite the Titanic Experience, which is now located in the original White Star Line offices.