Robert Briscoe's visit in 1962 inspired the resurrection of the Denver St. Patrick's Day Parade...even though it was April.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston returned from an official visit to Dublin on Friday, May 17, 62 years after Dublin Mayor Robert Briscoe paid a call to the Mile High City in 1962. Johnston made the trip in honor of new, direct flights between Denver International Airport and Dublin Airport via Aer Lingus.
Briscoe was a lifelong politician who served as a member of the country's Lower Parliament and the conservative political party Fianna Fáil, which controls the Dublin mayor's office today. But in Denver, he's remembered best for his brief time as the lord mayor of Dublin, an office created in the thirteenth century. He completed two terms as mayor, a position that only offers one-year terms, from 1956 to 1957 and again from 1961 to 1962.
Denver had celebrated St. Patrick's Day with annual parades from 1889 to 1921, as well as a big ball that featured a thirty-piece orchestra. But they ended for"economic reasons," according to the Denver St. Patrick's Day Parade. Twenty-five years later, in 1988, Briscoe's son Ben was elected the new lord mayor. In an effort to raise $15,000 to buy a new organ for the Dublin Concert Hall, Ben Briscoe came to Denver to host a lunch with leaders from the Irish and Jewish community, according to the 2012 bookThe two Briscoes were the only Jewish mayors and the only father and son to serve as mayor in the position's nearly thousand-year history. They were also the only two mayors of Dublin to visit Denver.
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