1st Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Havana, Cuba by Duke Riley

El Primer Desfile de San Patricio en la Habana, Cuba por Duke Riley
A celebration of cross cultural communication and overlooked Irish-Cuban History. By featuring patriotic American music, and fronting the procession with legendary Havana drag queen, Farah, Riley toys simultaneously with Cuban and Irish-American political taboos.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Saint Patrick's Day
• drag queen
• Bridge Over River Kwai
• Bagpipes
• Chico O'Farril
• Bonafacio Byrne
• Performance Art
• marching band
• Obispo
• O'Reilly
• Alejandro O'Reilly
• Green Beer
• patriotic anthem
• Irish
• Sequin Tube Tops
• kilt
• Burlesque
• US Cuban relations
• embargo
• Fidel Castro
• Che Guevara

[jimmyjones444]

viva cuba viva irlanda haha

[danmarino1970]

BTW (FYI) Che's name is "Dr" Ernesto "Che" Guevara De La Serna Lynch.

[Dimelo23]

I'm Cuban and love this tradition we do it every year .. It's a lot of fun, we embrace it as if we were part of Ireland that day

[Mojave888]

God bless Cuba and Ireland!

[AtreoYT1]

As it has been said, the heart of the matter is ALEXANDER O'REILLY, an Irishman in the service of the Spanish Crown, who was Governor of Cuba in the XVIII century.

Besides, don't forget the "GALICIAN CONNECTION". In Cuba, there are many Galician inmigrants and a lot of Cubans are of Galician descent. Galicia (in Northern Spain) has an important Celtic cultural heritage.

[MagicTellaVision]

Since I am a Born Again Pagan Celt and a Spiritual Atheist, I have academically and spiritually divorced myself from the Foreign Middle Eastern Aramaic Religion called Christianity because it has lost its credibility with me. Culturally and Academically I have chosen to explore (My Ancestor’s Indo European Celtic Druid Roots) which has been suppress by the first wave of Middle Eastern Extremists called Christianity.

[buaileamscith]

@MagicTellaVision There were no 180 books cos writing didnt exist before the christians came and Patrick didnt bring christianity it was there well before him.

[camaleon2040]

o.0

[MagicTellaVision]

I am a Proud Native Pagan Celt; I wish I could read the 180 Druid books before they were burned by Patrick's New Middle Eastern Religions Cult. If you are a Proud Born Again Pagan Celt wear all GREEN! CELTIC PAGAN PRIDE DAY starts on March 17th and ends of March 18th

[SuperTinkerhell]

Viva cuba!!!! Best wishes from Ireland :)

[marysusie]

Ceart go leor!