st guiness day...

[pagey3]

does anyone else find it a little sad that there is so much hoo-haa about st patricks day, but barely any celebration for our own patron saint st george?

one girl I work with is 20 and she didn't even know what st georges day was! why are we celebrating someone else's national pride and not our own? I suspect if we tried to we would be called racist and told to stop celebrating as we were offending the non english...(much as in a town in north london the local council took down the union jack from their town hall after a non-english area of the community complained that it was discriminatory against those in the community who weren't british!)

[WoWo]

Personally I'm not the bothered about it.

[WoWo]

I should have added which is very much alluded to in your question title, in my opinion St Patricks day is only as popular in this country because of the amount of money Guiness has pumped into advertising it in recent years, it certainly wasn't celebrated when I was younger.

[milly143]

It doesn't bother me. If people want to celebrate paddys day then let them. Maybe I'm a pesamist but I highly suspect that the only reason most English people would chose to celebrate St. Georges day as they do St. Patricks is for a day off work and an excuse for a booze up.

[jno]

St George isn't particularly English - he's the patron saint of Lithuania and Georgia (of course) as well, and was from Turkey, I think. Patrick on the other hand is actually connected with Ireland. England needs a really local saint. Maybe Becks beer could promote Saints Posh and Becks.

[Drusilla1S]

St George is actually a very multi cultural saint. As jno has said, he has links elsewhere and is also reverred by Palestinians and Muslims, generally. If promoted properly, he could be a wonderful force for unity across cultures in England.

[lizzierose]

st patrick lived in england and spent most of his time in france.
and he only drove out a few snakes. george killed a dragon!
was talking about this the other day. me and my mates always go the pub and drink english ales on st. george's day. not a right lot different from usual but the thought is there. gonna be in LA for it this year though so it'll be tough going.

[Tatty Rollox]

...... when the Guiness is gone St Patrick is a funny sort of lad .............

[Bohne]

I think that's because the Irish like to celebrate...

When is St. George's Day?
(My excuse, I am not English)
But I'll gladly drink to hi health, too!

:o)

[DMA]

I like Guiness and you often get free Guiness in promotions on St Paddys day so no problemo.

[gazzawazza]

St George's Day is 23rd of April.

I don't think people really make a big thing of St Patrick's Day, like has already been mentioned it's Guinness and irish pubs that do so. It is annoying that we don't celebrate being english more.

Personally, I find Guinness disgusting, if I want soup I'll open a tin!

[Kay]

I think its up to the individual whether they should celebrate the St of the their country's day. As a welshie I have always worn a daffodil on St Davids Day and all primary schools where we live hold a concert with the girls dressed in traditionially welsh dress. I even like St Patricks day,all that lovely dancing:-)

[mrrobbo15]

....we (english) need to make St Georges a bank holiday.......

.....all those in favour ??

[jenstar]

As far as I can see, both St Patrick's Day and St George's Day are celebrated about equally. St Patrick's Day is celebrated by the consumption of large amounts of intoxicating substances, since (of course) this is the defining characteristic of the Irish, and St George's Day is celebrated by moaning on and on and on and on and on and on since (of course) this is the defining characteristic of the English.

[DMA]

What are you supposed to drink on St Davids day ?

[funkymoped]

we the ENGLISH shoul be proud of who we are. most people realise ST. GEORGE was not a native of this fine land and accept it. (cant call us racist)

ST. PATRICK was an ENGLISH man, very few people realise that.

long live the memory of SAINT GEORGE.

BRITISH by birth.

ENGLISH by the grace of GOD.

ps, can we have another BANK HOLIDAY please ?

[Gef]

If you want to see people celebrate St. George's day then go to Barcelona.

[sdqk]

Further to funkymoped's post, St. Patrick is generally thought to be from Wales, not England

[henneth]

St Patrick was probably from Wigan, I mean it's a good a place as any. In his own biography he was vague and we assume it's somewhere on the west coast, possibly Wales but also modern day Lancashire and the Cubrian coast. As Wigan was a Roman settlement called Coccium it certainly was a community in Paddy's time. So with no evidence whatsoever, I'm staking a claim that Wigan was his birthplace.

Oh, and didn't the Anglican Church stamp out the worship of Saints Days so no wonder St George isn't celebrated as much as the Catholics celebrate St Patrick's Day across the water.