So here we have Saint Patrick's Day. Imho, just another day for Americans to celebrate (and drink away) a holiday pertinent to a foreign ethnicity that most of us have no business celebrating. Sure, I'm part Irish, but so what? Commemorating the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, I'm pretty sure that drinking/partying is not part of the official celebration. Not to sound like a party pooper, but it's just another reason that Americans take to partay...with no real grounds. Am I wrong?
I'm part Scottish and I think part Irish so I'm gonna drink an Irish beer. My health won't allow me to drink more than one or two. Gonna wear green today. I figure we're all Irish today.
This is the holiday I've always ignored and used as an excuse to punch people when I didn't wear green. So I don't really care about it but I did like punching people in school. I punched them in the shoulder about half strength until people stopped pinching me. Didn't take long but the girls took longer because they didn't think I'd do it.
About Americans, I can't say. But when your in Ireland, out the pub with pints around, the fiddle and the tin whistle at play, it is damn hard to tell ST Paddy's day, from any other day.
I'm probably 80% Irish american and grew up around very Irish americans who identified with the culture....have cousins in Cork, Dublin, and some Irish family in New Zealand...music, poetry, story telling, dancing, believe me....we do that even at wakes...the Irish don't understand "official celebration" but they understand the holiday just fine.....you don't have to be Palestinian to follow Jesus either last time I checked..actually we don't stop at St Patrick's day...we'll celebrate Chinese New Year...any Independence Day anywhere...Christmas...Easter...Confucious Day...the Rain Dance of the Hopi...fact....holidays are fun....eat corned beef pasties and drink green beer or whiskey....not that different from folks Super Bowl tail gaters actually..it's one day you can play the bagpipes anywhere and not get arrested for disturbing the peace
>Irish funerals in the USA are the same. My Brother in law was up there in the ranks of the Hibernians and had a Irish import business. He was grand Marshall in St Patty's day parades too. He was awesome and quite the party hound. We had great times together. After his funeral we all met at Tier Na Nog (an authentic Irish bar that actually supported the IRA). We spilled onto the sidewalk and the cops stayed at bay. I walked away with a few authentic bar variety Guiness glasses. We all got pummeled!
