Saint Patrick's Day have been cross-community St Patrick's Day parades in towns throughout Northern Ireland, which have attracted thousands of spectators. In the mid-1990s the government of the Republic of Ireland began a campaign to use St Patrick's Day to showcase Ireland and its culture. The government set up a group called St Patrick's Festival, with the aims: The first St Patrick's Festival was held on 17 March 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 it was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long; more than 675,000 people attended the 2009 parade. Overall 2009's five-day
St David's Day Agreement as Silk II, has gone into this agreement and documented in the command paper. Welsh devolution St David's Day Command Paper St David's Day Agreement The St David's Day Agreement is a document which set out the proposals of UK coalition government. It was published in the command paper "Powers for a purpose: Towards a lasting devolution settlement for Wales", also known as the "St David's Day Command Paper". The agreement was announced on 27 February 2015, by David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister and Nick Clegg, the UK Deputy Prime Minister at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The