{"id":146156,"date":"2026-02-26T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146156\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:10:32","slug":"everyone-is-a-bit-irish-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146156\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Is A Bit Irish In Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/275580957_4985560048193700_1463302551105773653_n-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Everyone Is A Bit Irish In Manhattan\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the 2026 Manhattan Irish Fest in Manhattan, Illinois.\u00a0 The two-day celebration of Irish culture began in 1995 by the Irish American Society of Will County as a small fundraiser for the Chamber of Commerce and has grown into a major annual pre-St. Patrick\u2019s Day event.<\/p>\n<p>The fest is scheduled for Friday, March 6th, and Saturday, March 7th and features a parade, live music, Irish dancing, and bagpipe bands. \u00a0Also a craft show, Irish food and beverages, rugby matches, and a 5K race.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information, visit the Manhattan Irish Fest website:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is time for the 2026 Manhattan Irish Fest in Manhattan, Illinois.\u00a0 The two-day celebration of Irish culture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-146156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}