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St Patrick’s Day
Sydney’s first settlers, many
of them Irish, made their
home in The Rocks. With
its proliferation of pubs,
it is the focal point for
jubilant St Patrick’s
Day celebrations on
17 March each year.

Little Italy
Long home to the Italian com­
munity, Leichhardt evokes the Jewish Delicatessen
flavour of Europe with its bars, The sizeable Jewish
cafés, restaurants and a sprawling community in the city’s
annual street fair. eastern suburbs, about
half of whom were born
in Aust ralia, is well served
by kosher supermarkets
and butchers’ shops.

Ireland

Italy China Israel

Lebanon Indigenous Australia
Greece

Aboriginal Peoples
The annual Yabun Festival is
held on 26 January in Victoria
Park, Camperdown on the
traditional land of the Cadigal
people (see p51).

Chinese New Year
Each year, revellers
pack Dixon Street,
St Nicholas Church at the heart of
Marrickville’s Greek Orthodox Chinatown, to
church is the home of worship celebrate with
for the community, mostly fireworks and
based in the southern suburbs. Chinese dragons.

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