The Irish Festival Parade will be on Sunday 11th March 2012: This year the parade is back to it's traditional route (Last year road works closed Corporation Street and altered the route.) Following the Mass in Gaelic at 10am at Irish World Heritage Centre, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade leaves Queens Road at 11.30am. The route takes the parade into Manchester City Centre along Cheetham Hill Road, Corporation Street, Cross Street, John Dalton Street, Lloyd Street and arriving at Albert Square at 1pm. The parade arrives back at the Irish World Heritage Centre at 2.30pm