Welcome to the St Patrick's Festival Coatbridge website.

Thanks to everyone who supported and attended last year’s 2007 festival, which was a huge success. The main Saturday event in the town centre attracted an enormous crowd of between 12,000 and 15,000 throughout the day and this year’s festival promises to be even better.

As in previous years the festival will take the form of a week long programme of a variety of cultural events including, music, dance and theatre. See the 2008 tab for a provisional list of events, which will include a Father Ted evening which will feature two classic episodes followed by a light hearted quiz, the ever popular Quiet Man Quiz, plus an evening of music and dance with The Coatbridge branch of Comhaltas.

Also returning this year by popular demand, are Professor Tom Devine who will deliver a thought provoking lecture and the brilliantly talented, one man performer, currently based in Galway, Little John Nee.

Other planned events include Gaelic football, a youth football tournament, an art exhibition, an ecumenical service plus much more.

Quiet Man and Father Ted Events

The festival will culminate with the main event, 'The St Patrick’s Day Festival ' which will be held in Coatbridge town centre, on Saturday 15th March 2008.

Professor Tom Devine

As usual there will be two stages, musical and dance events throughout the day, kiddie’s rides and games. In fact something for everyone.

Also, there will be the St Patrick’s festival shop, where there'll be the usual opportunity to buy a variety of souvenirs, and to partake in the Coatbridge Irish Genealogy Project where advice is offered on how to search for your Irish ancestors.

Little John Nee

Archive:

You can revisit previous festivals by clicking on the Archive button

Merchandise:
We hope to have an order form in place very soon. However, in the meantime if you wish to purchase any of the items from the merchandise page contact us at : contact@stpatricksdayfestivalcoatbridge.org, by including details of size, number and also your address, telephone number etc.

Contact:

For those of you who have attended our festival in the past we'd love to hear any feedback, suggestions, stories etc and photographs that we can include in our archive section.

We look forward to seeing you in March 2008 at the festival, which continues to grow in its popularity and in the quality that we continue to deliver.