The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme.
In Dublin, this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШThe SkyтАЩs the Limit!тАЩ. Over 700,000 people are expected to line the Dublin streets and an estimated six million will be watching either live on RTE or through the internet. The programme is bursting with street theatre, Irish music, dance, spectacles, comedy, film, treasure hunt, Irish language events, family fun and the best St. PatrickтАЩs Day Parade in the world. This yearтАЩs special pageant, Eudoxia, a visual feast of sumptuous Mongolian-inspired costume, explores the relationship between the imaginary city of Eudoxia and the mapping of the heavens, referencing the constellations and an orrery.
