Why Do WE Celebrate St.Patrick's Day?

[Sussexscots]

Is it OK to leave a St Patrick's Day celebration early if you have a train to catch? Or is that bad form and one should stay to the very end to clap the fiddlers and heedrum hodrum musicians off stage?

 

[StonehamPark]

Looks like I'm alone in enjoying the festively themed lime jelly shots later tonight.
We've got a big Paddies party going on tonight, not one Irish person here though.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I learned to celebrate St Patrick's Day when I was at a Catholic primary school in Newport (St Joseph's), being taught by Irish nuns.

March was a brilliant month, since we were given the day off for religious holidays.

1 March ... St David's Day
17 March ... St Patrick's Day
19 March ... St Joseph's Day.

Chuck in Ash Wednesday and it's hard to see how we learned anything.

 

[sydney]

We don't celebrate it
Just an excuse to get pissed and pubs sell shit loads of Guinness
Really nothing more than a massive Guinness promotion day worldwide

fixed.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I learned to celebrate St Patrick's Day when I was at a Catholic primary school in Newport (St Joseph's), being taught by Irish nuns.

March was a brilliant month, since we were given the day off for religious holidays.

1 March ... St David's Day
17 March ... St Patrick's Day
19 March ... St Joseph's Day.

Chuck in Ash Wednesday and it's hard to see how we learned anything.

Irish Catholic nuns.

Lovely bunch.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Not my bag, that is all.

 

[OzMike]

No problem at all with it, people just being happy and having a good time.
My grandpappy was from Clonmany in Donegal, but even if he wasn't I'd still raise a glass.

 

[B-right-on]

Because it's a bit of fun and an excuse to enjoy yourself, have a drink or 3 with some mates (or not) and have a laugh.

Oh, we're miserable frigging English and we don't do fun.

Arh feck it, my old man was Irish so I don't give a rats. Drink, laugh, Irish Stew and fun tonight it was....

 

[Wellesley]

not one Irish person here though.

Well I suppose that's worth celebrating.

 

[W.C.]

This thread ticked all the annual bingo boxes on the very first page.

What's up next in the calendar, some kind of Why aren't we allowed to celebrate St George's day one?

 

[Blue3]

Marketing opportunity

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

We are celebrating the fact that we are not Irish.

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[neilbard]

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

It's all a load of old shit.
Patron saints of this and that, totally meaningless and a complete waste of time.
Bollox so it is.

 

[fork me]

I don't its no more than an excuse to spend the afternoon at the bar.

I do, for the same reason...

 

[Insel affe]

George the name is from Greek origins, nothing English about it.



Jesus isn't the patron saint to England...

Is jebus even a saint ?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

This thread ticked all the annual bingo boxes on the very first page.

What's up next in the calendar, some kind of Why aren't we allowed to celebrate St George's day one?

What is it with the "not being allowed to celebrate St George's Day" stuff. Around here there is positive encouragement to do so.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Is jebus even a saint ?

I'm not aware of a St Jebus.

But Jesus ranks above Saints in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Insel affe]

What is it with the "not being allowed to celebrate St George's Day" stuff. Around here there is positive encouragement to do so.

You shouldn't need a day to celebrate your heritage, you should be able to be proud of it everyday and that goes for every race, creed and country.... When it goes wrong is when people use it as an excuse to be ignorant and jingoistic. Just like you don't need a church or mosque or perceived higher authority to tell you how to behave and what's right or wrong...

Time we all moved on with respect.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

You shouldn't need a day to celebrate your heritage, you should be able to be proud of it everyday and that goes for every race, creed and country.... When it goes wrong is when people use it as an excuse to be ignorant and jingoistic. Just like you don't need a church or mosque or perceived higher authority to tell you how to behave and what's right or wrong...

Time we all moved on with respect.

With respect, I totally agree! I think the vast majority of reasonable people have no problem with other people celebrating what they want to celebrate. Any idea of offending people of other nationalities or religions by celebrating your own thing is for the most part nonsense and the product of over-sensitive bureaucracy.