St Patricks day

[darkman]

What is with all the rubbish about wearing green today to celebrate st patricks day, another american import?

[pat]

Do not care about green - I usually do drown my Shamrocks and preferably in Ireland.
Yes they do add green to the dark stuff with a white head, all a bit of fun, good craic.

[jimbews]

What is with all the rubbish about wearing green today to celebrate st patricks day, another american import?

Or is it just that they are proud of their heritage, and are outgoing enough to show it?

I am visiting family who moved to a small town in the south west of Ireland, and have enjoyed the Paddy's Day celebrations.

All the local organisations and schools paraded round the town.
Suppose its a bit like Gala Day, but with the advantage that they know that all the other Irish are celebrating at the same time.

Even in St Andrews (where I live) we struggle to celebrate St Andrews day, and every suggestion of making it a nationwide holiday seems to get shot down.

Now if you really want to have a go at commercialisation and imports, have a crack at the likes of Mother's Day.


JimBews

[JAWS]

All what rubbish? What brought that on?

[Angela]

Even in St Andrews (where I live) we struggle to celebrate St Andrews day, and every suggestion of making it a nationwide holiday seems to get shot down.
Now if you really want to have a go at commercialisation and imports, have a crack at the likes of Mother's Day.

JimBews

I too would like to see St Andrews Day celebrated much more.
I think part of the reason it isn't is the time of year...it gets caught up in the run-up to Christmas...which is of course commercialised.
We do have Burns Night, however
I agree that Mother's Day is commercialised, as so many things are, but it's not an American import.
"Mothering Sunday" as it was originally known, was special because domestic servants were allowed to go home to attend their "mother" church on the 4th Sunday of Lent (I think!) and hence to their families and their own mothers!

[darkman]

I just do not understand why they are trying to foist st patricks day on scotland, who thinks up these things?
I think if anything should be celebrated more extensively in scotland it should be burns day and st andrews day.

[JAWS]

Who is trying to foist St. Patrick's Day on Scotland? Until I saw this post I hadn't heard any reference to St. Patrick's Day.
Has it been declared a holiday or something?

[Angela]

Who is trying to foist St. Patrick's Day on Scotland? ...
Has it been declared a holiday or something?

It's a public holiday in Ireland, as you might expect .....nothing happpening here in Edinburgh...but then maybe I need to get out more

[Errogie]

On Saturday Rich and I dropped into Popeyes in Scrabster for a drink. Everyone was wearing green and white plastic bowler hats, green plastic shamrocks stuck to all the windows, doors and any flat surface while Wales was hammering England at rugby on two big t.v. screens. Only you couldn't hear the commentary for some American heavy metal band from another set of speakers.

How I love multiculturalism and we should take some marketing lessons from the Irish!