IN PHOTOS | Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Canada and abroad

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St. Patrick’s Day is marked annually on March 17, the traditional death date of Ireland’s patron saint, and has become a celebration of Irish culture and heritage worldwide.

Check out the parades and celebrations in Canada and abroad.

A performer dressed as St. Patrick greets spectators during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin on Tuesday.

A performer dressed as Saint Patrick greets the crowd on the sidelines during a Saint Patrick's Day parade.

(Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

A woman gestures as people gather on the day of the Dublin parade.

A Black woman with green shamrock headband giving a hang 10 sign and smiling and holding onto a street pole, surrounded by other revellers.

(Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

Members of Ohio State University Marching Band prepare before the parade begins in Dublin.

Members of a band stand near tubas that are lying on the ground, ahead of a parade.

(Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

In Canada

Over the weekend, grand marshal Rev. Rodney Clark led the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Rawdon, Que., the town’s 48th annual parade. It’s the crown jewel of three days of festivities that celebrates the deep Irish roots in the community and elsewhere in the Laurentians.

Man wearing green sash with words Grand Marshal on front tips his cap to parade spectators

(Andie Bennett/CBC)

Chantal Larose and Veronique Porlier say they’ve been attending the Rawdon parade, among the largest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the province, for 25 years.

woman with green viking hat that has orange braids and green necklaces stands next to woman in green jersey and green tuque

(Andie Bennett/CBC)

Spectators watch a float with elementary school children from Rawdon, a town with over 11,000 people, which is about 77 kilometres north of Montreal.

A big truck pulling a float with elementary school kids decorated with home made four leaf clovers and balloons

(Andie Bennett/CBC)

In Northern Ireland

Performers participate in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Belfast on Tuesday.

Participants in a St. Patrick's Day parade, with crowds watching.

(Mark Marlow/PA/The Associated Press)

A person reacts during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Belfast.

A smiling Black man in white shirt, black tie and a shamrock-themed khaki jacket; a shamrock is decorated on his cheek.

(Mark Marlow/PA/The Associated Press)

In the U.S.

People march in the 265th St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City on Tuesday.

Band marching in a parade down a street surrounded by buildings.

(Seth Wenig/The Associated Press)

A woman displays a sign as she and others attend the parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

A woman in green shirt and cowboy hat holding a banner that reads: Shake your shamrock, standing next to parade goers.

(Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

North Babylon high school members march during the parade in New York City.

Cheerleaders in a parade, blurred with a slower shutterspeed.

(Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

The Wee Irish Pub, a fully functioning mobile Irish pub built by two Massachusetts brothers, is towed down Dorchester Avenue during the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade through the South Boston neighbourhood, on Sunday.