It was a sea of green and gold in St. Paul on Monday as thousands gathered to celebrate the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade. "It's beautiful to see everyone wearing green — no matter what your nationality or where you're from," Dan Kelly said.

St. Patrick’s Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, is being marked in cities across the country on Monday with boisterous parades and celebrations. New York City hosts one of the largest and oldest parades in the United States.

You don’t have to be Irish to participate in the Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day parade and it’s unlikely anyone is going to call you out if you want to pretend you are for just one day. Thousands of people lined the parade route along Broadway Boulevard Monday to see the annual celebration.