Saint Patrick's Day in Moscow. The unofficial parade is held by volunteers and resembles a carnival. In 2014, Moscow Irish Week was celebrated from 12 to 23 March, which includes St Patrick's Day on 17 March. Over 70 events celebrating Irish culture in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, and Volgograd were sponsored by the Irish Embassy, the Moscow City Government, and other organisations. In 2017, the Russian Orthodox Church added the feast day of Saint Patrick to its liturgical calendar, to be celebrated on . Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a large Irish expatriate community. The community established the
TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS "St Patrick" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906. She was built by John Brown and Company for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS "St George" and TrSS "St David". From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War. On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS "St David" in Fishguard harbour. She was re-engined in 1926 and caught fire on 7