Oh, crap! Is that what I have to look forward to?! And I’m already a cap-sniffing drunk! :eek:
Going in for my evaluation on Friday, then scheduling an appointment to get this mofo gallbladder yanked out.
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I am Protestant Irish-so I used to wear orange on March 17. Then I realized that the Irish Catholics had pulled off an enormous coup re their religion. They really don’t mean “everyone’s Irish on St Paddy’s Day”–they mean everyone is Catholic or some such nonsense.
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no, they don’t.
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I am Protestant Irish-so I used to wear orange on March 17. Then I realized that the Irish Catholics had pulled off an enormous coup re their religion. They really don’t mean “everyone’s Irish on St Paddy’s Day”–they mean everyone is Catholic or some such nonsense.
Hey, I’m a Baptist and I celebrate it with gusto!
eleanorigby- I’m a Northern Irish Protestant (as is my husband and a few of our friends) and we’ll all be celebrating with the rest of the country. Seriously, Paddy’s day isn’t the day to bring up religion or politics-not that there’s ever a good time to bring them up in Ireland, but March 17th isn’t that day. Just as all the Americans of British descent don’t start flying Union Jack’s on the 4th of July.
Northern Ireland celebrates too- and tries to make it as inclusive and non-sectarian as possible.
It’s not a semi-official national holiday in Ireland, it’s an official one- schools, universities and most businesses are shut for the day.
Look I get what you’re saying, but you’re talking about Paddy’s Day as celebrated in America by Irish-Americans (or, as the Irish call them, Americans). People get snippy about their national heritage when it looks like it’s going to be subsumed into a melting pot.
Paddy’s Day in Ireland is more fun because
a) we can afford not to take ourselves seriously
b) we’re Irish 365 days a year so we don’t have as much to prove and nothing to lose
c) it’s an excuse to take the day of work and get drunk in the middle of Lent
I’ve seen it done there, in Limerick when I was there. It was not common though and it might have been a touristy pub.
That’s what an Irish breakfast looks like, or at least close. I love having ham, beans, eggs, toast and sausages after drinking too much. I think I’m glad there’s a baby around now so I can’t drink as much. We do plan on taking her out though, at least I hope we can avoid the crowds in the early afternoon.
As far as I know, I have no Irish blood in me. I am, however, a college student. Which mean’s I’m practically obligated to go out and do something fun for St. Patrick’s Day with the rest of my friends. 
So far, it looks like that something might be a run to the piercing parlor (everyone wants tattoos or piercings; I want to get my nose pierced), then some Irish music at some festival downtown, as well as, hopefully, the consumption of lots of alcohol. I found a cute shirt with a shamrock on it that says “Got Luck?” that a plan to wear. I also may paint my fingernails green, if I have time.
I am American but I am over 1/4 of Irish descent. My maternal grandmothers side is Irish. Her parents came over from Donegal, Ireland in the late 1800’s. Her grandfathers had come over to fight in the Civil War and then went back to Ireland and their children eventually came to the US and married. I also have a little Irish on my paternal grandfather’s side and Scottish as well.
Anyway, I haven’t ever done the go out to bars on St. Paddy’s Day thing. I don’t like crowded bars. I usually just wear green and occasionally make a special meal and have some Irish drink. Last year was Colcannon and Guinness. But this year I have to work a graveyard shift so I think I’ll just be wearing green.
i’m about 1/2 of norman irish descent, the other half being a mix of scots, welsh & english… but my family has been in canada for more than two centuries. (even the most recent addition to my direct bloodline from the old world is well more than a century & half ago.)
i’ll still be found at the pub sipping pints tomorrow night, after my hockey game; but that’s only cause it’s friday night, and that’s what i’d be doing most any other friday night.
and i don’t even own any green clothes. maybe i’ll wear something orange, if i think of it.
I’m 1/2 irish (mom correct me if I’m wrong) that day our downtown mall is having a celebration and some friends and I are goin, I’m gonna wear green cuz my friends are lame and do pinch the non green wearing people!
As far as the wearing green thing, since I’ve been to Ireland, and used to sing in an Irish/Scottish folk band cite! , I generaly don’t wear green, I do however, wear a collarless shirt, vest, and irish cap for that cheesy “Quiet Man” look that is probubly embarrassing me but I’m too stuborn to notice. 