As is every St. Patrick's Day, the streets and buildings around town were flooded with green and merry spirits. Sullivan's Quay hosted its annual week of St. Patrick's Day festivities leading up to the big day, and what a festive day it was.

On St. Patrick's Day, Sullivan's Quay was packed with patrons wearing green who were given a real taste of what Ireland might be like on this holiday. And you better have made a reservation, or you would have been waiting quite some time for an open table.

"I thought the entertainment was beautiful and wonderful," said Marilyn Butler Murphey who indulged in a delicious Irish meal with her mother Mary Bulter.

Patrons enjoyed a special Irish menu that was served all day and were entertained by the melodies of Billy Coleman and Pat Floody on the guitar and keyboard-accordion and the exuberant performances of Irish step dancers from The Donny Golden School of Irish Dance.

The bar and restaurant's owner Brian Barry, a native of Ireland, made his upscale Irish pub on Port Washington Boulevard, complete with hardwood floors, a large mahogany bar and a giant turn-of-the-century mural of County Cork, feel like home for some on the holiday.

"It feels like we are really in the old country," said George Sweetman to his daughter, Leslie Brown, while enjoying the entertainment.

Some came to Sullivan's Quay to support the entertainers. Proud mother Mary-Lou Fekert watched her two daughters, Delanie, 13, and Raegan, 10, perform their step dancing at Sullivan's Quay for the second year in a row.

"It was a great show," Fekert said. "I hope to be back next year."