It's getting close to...the (2nd- or 3rd-) MOST wonderful TIME...of the year...

[ceebeegee]

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I'd have to rank St. Patrick's Day behind Halloween and Mardi Gras or Christmas, but nonetheless SPD is still a completely awesome holiday here in New York City! Because it's a sign of spring! And beer and Irish whiskey and flirtable cops on parade duty and Tim's roooftop party!

I love this holiday...and I have (as far as I know*) no Irish blood in me.



*I am very Scottish and have been told by Scots that there's a lot of crossover. As far as I know I have no Irish blood, but would be thrilled to find out I did. But my Scottish ancestry is from the Eastern part of Scotland...

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[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

..and I have (as far as I know*) no Irish blood in me.

Have you considered the Show Boat solution?

"Now I'm telling you... me... Windy McClain... that Scottish girl has Irish blood in her."

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Well, the group knows as the 'Scots' originally came from Ireland and settled in what is now Scotland. So you could feasibly have Irish blood if your family are Scottish. It's also worth taking into account, though, that there's also heaps of Scandinavian blood in the Scottish, not to mention English (because English lords often forced themselves on Scottish women), which means there's the European ancestry of the English mingled in there, plus the fact that the clans inter-married a lot back in ye olde days so most Scots are related to most other Scots, especially in the Highlands and Western Isles... So really there's no way to tell.

As a half-English, half-Scottish person, I generally get rather bitter around this time of year, because surely St Andrew and St George deserve to be celebrated just as much. But no one even knows when St Andrew's day is.
And then I remember Guinness, and just get drunk like everyone else.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Oh hells no! St. Andrew's Day is at the end of November. And Scotland Day (?--the Scottish diaspora celebrates it) is in April, when Culloden was. Two good opportunities to sip some Scotch.

Virginia, my home state, has a lot of people of Scottish ancestry and we have Highland Games festivals in the summer. I don't know if they have them in the UK, but they are a LOT of fun. Haggis, Scotch and half-naked hot men throwing cabers.

I have lots of Scandinavian blood as well, I know. St. Patrick's Day is bigger in the States than St. Andrew's or St. George's because the English and the Scots assimilated early and very well. They were never looked down on or considered an undesirable minority the way the Irish were (who didn't really start coming here until the potato famine in the mid-19th century). The St. Patrick's Day phenomenon (I'm assuming) grew out of the fact that they needed to feel proud of their culture.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

We don't have Highland Games festivals at all in England, as far as I know. I've spent heaps of time in Scotland, and never witnessed it there either. The main sport in Scotland at the moment seems to be junk food eating and Irn Bru guzzling.
Those of us from Scotland originally still celebrate Burns Night and Hogmany down here though. That's when the haggis and the whisky and the poetry come out (not so much with the naked since both events are in January!).
As far as I know there's no Irish in me at all, so I feel no real urge to celebrate St Patrick's day.