St Patrick's Day

[anotheoldgit]

No one appears to have noticed yet that today is St Patrick's Day.

So may I wish all the Irish ABers a Happy St Patrick's Day.

While on the subject why is it that the Irish celebrate their Patron's Saints day, more than either England, Wales or Scotland do theirs?

[sp1814]

The reason why the Irish celebrate St Patricks Day more so than the English celebrate St George's Day is (in my opinion) partly cultural and partly corporate.

When you have a corporation like Guinness behind something, it's going to be big. And culturally - it's been going on for so long now, that it's become culturally ingrained...like the Mardi Gras, Glastonbury or the Notting Hill Carnival - if it didn't happen one year, it'd be noticed.

I'm not Irish, but I know exactly when St Patrick's Day is, because it's such an obvious day each year - our own saint's day isn't so obvious, because we've not got a big corporation ready to relieve us of our money in order to celebrate it.

[youngmafbog]

Its becuse we have had the Englishness bullied out of us by the PC Brigrade and Jocks like Brown who rule us

[ummmm]

The Irish are patriotic all year round....believe it or not.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The reason why the Irish celebrate St Patricks Day more so than the English celebrate St George's Day is (in my opinion) partly cultural and partly corporate.///

Who ever mentioned St George's Day v St Patrick's Day, I also mentioned Wale's patron saint ( St David) also Scotland's patron saint (St Andrew) but no body has mentioned these.

Also the fact that St Patrick's Day is celebrated very much so in Australia and the USA, to name just a couple.

So why? that is all I am asking, stop trying to turn my question into a nationalistic fight.

[Quinlad]

"No one appears to have noticed yet that today is St Patrick's Day."

Just because they haven't written a post on it, it doesn't mean they've not noticed. AB isn't a stream of consciousness for most of us.

[askyourgran]

AOG

You'll be giving the rest of the old gits a bad name, give it a rest.

[ummmm]

Facebook is full of 'happy Paddy's day' on my list....CB has had a few as well...

[VHG]

>The reason why the Irish celebrate St Patricks Day more so than the English

Is mainly because there are more Irish outside Ireland than actually in it.

So all the Irish in England, USA etc celebrate St Patricks day and everything Irish, while living and earning their salary outside Ireland.

I am sure many English people living abroad celebrate St Georges day more than we do in England.

[onlineoap]

I'll raise a glass of Guiness to the Irish tonight!!

[sherrardk]

When I was at school in South Wales we would get a half day for St David's Day. When at primary school we would dress in traditional costume and every school would have each class's photograph in the local paper. Think they still do it now.

[ELVIS68]

It`s just an excuse for the Irish to get p!ssed, same as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc etc

[sp1814]

AOG

In your question, you asked why the Urish celebrate their saint's day more than the English, Welsh and Scots. This is why people have referred to St George's Day. We can't comment on the other two, unless we're Welsh or Scottish.

However, you could argue that the Scots have an equivalent night of specific Scottish celebration on Burns Night.

...and Hogmanny (however it's spelled).

[mike11111]

I have heard it said that the extent to which a country celebrates its nationality is in direct proportion to the size of the chip on its collective shoulder, though this strikes me as a bit of a put-down, and not a theory to which I would subscribe myself.

[ummmm]

Well I had a great night....

I think much of it comes down to the fact that so many Irish left their country because they had no choice. Leave or starve. They didn't want to leave....they came to earn their fortune and never went home.