How do Irish people celebrate St. Pats day we just seem to drink all day the English.?

Answer 1

St. Patrick's Festival is Ireland's official celebration for our national holiday – St. Patrick's Day. Around the globe on Saturday 17th March Ireland is celebrated with parties and parades but the BIG party is here in Ireland where we celebrate in style with five days and nights of fantastic celebratory events, most of which are free!
From March 15th to 19th there is so much on offer - music, street theatre, family carnivals, comedy, street performances, dance, a treasure hunt, night spectacles ... 4000 performers and 1 million people celebrating Ireland. So whether you are Irish or just wish you were, Dublin is the place to be this March to enjoy Ireland's biggest party.

Paddy's Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17. It is the national holiday and one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland (a bank holiday in Northern Ireland); the overseas territory of Montserrat; and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the United States it is widely celebrated, although not an official holiday.

In the recent past, Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated only as a religious holiday. It became a public holiday only in 1903, by the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament introduced by the Irish MP James O'Mara[2]. O'Mara later introduced the law which required that pubs be closed on March 17[3], a provision which was repealed only in the 1970s. The first St. Patrick's Day parade held in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931 and was reviewed by the then Minister of Defence Desmond Fitzgerald. Although secular celebrations now exist, the holiday is still a religious observance in some areas.

It was only in the mid-1990s that the Irish government began a campaign to use Saint Patrick's Day to showcase Ireland and its culture.[1] The government set up a group called St. Patrick's Festival, with the aim to:

—Offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebrations in the world and promote excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity.
—Provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent,(and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.
—Project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal, as we approach the new millennium.[4]
The first Saint Patrick's Festival was held on March 17, 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long.

The topic of the 2004 St. Patrick's Symposium was "Talking Irish," during which the nature of Irish identity, economic success and the future was discussed. Since 1996, there has been a greater emphasis on celebrating and projecting a fluid and inclusive notion of "Irishness" rather than an identity based around traditional religious or ethnic allegiance. The week around Saint Patrick's Day usually involves Irish speakers using more Irish during seachtain na Gaeilge ("Irish Week").

And although Saint Patrick's Day has the colour green as their theme, one little known fact is that it was once blue that was the colour of this day

Answer 2

usually go to the local st, Patrick's day parade and give the kids a good day out a lot of people bring the kids to the pub for a meal and a drink and then go home . some people go out for the night as there are a lot of traditional music sessions on at the time. some idiots use it as an excuse to get completely wasted but generally its a nice family day and day of pride for the millions of Irish all over the world. well done Irish rugby team!!!!!!! another reason to celebrate

Answer 3

It was once - crimson roses in button holes, flags draped from domicile windows. Patriotic songs being sung in pubs around the previous joannna. I bear in mind it nicely as a time to take exhilaration in. i think of we grew to alter right into somewhat blaze and desperate everywhere else became into greater valuable than England, so the celebrations went out of the window. Patriotism is a grimy observe in this united states and it variety of feels that maximum youthful people opt to instruct us right into a Republic back with our top Minister as our sole representative and occasion to the international. what is going to that flow away us to rejoice?! the different element is, could we be allowed to rejoice a Saint's Day interior the present Politically acceptable suited climate whilst efforts are being made to hose down down the Christmas Festivities? i think of no longer.

Answer 4

Isn't it like a patriotic holiday for Irish people? There are parades and celebrations, just like the 4th of July in the US, only it's all done in green instead of red white and blue.

Answer 5

The irish people (in Ireland) celebrate st. patties day very similarly to us. They have parades and drink A LOT.

Answer 6

By celebrating Irish culture as well. Least that's what we do here in America. Most of the american population has at least one ancestor from Ireland.

Answer 7

as i am Irish i find your question very offense i am a social drinker and my husband has not drank in 30 years and a lot of my friends do not drink . at least the Irish go out to drink not like you Americans who get sloshed at home and then go shoot someone

Answer 8

The Irish I know, and a good many who are not drink and drink. Still others have a special meal and a bit of a party.

--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 9

I'm thinkin you were drunk when you wrote that question so you're forgiven.However,you are right about the English.that is exactly how I think of them....the English?

Answer 10

they dream about this day from the time the last one finishes 'which lasts a week by the way'for the sole reason to have the excuse to get BLOTTO all over again