Do you celebrate St Patrick’s Day if you’re not of Irish Descent

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My granddad was Irish, my Dad's a citizen.

Just don't be obnoxious about it and my read is no one really cares. My granddad enjoyed the excuse to talk about growing up outside of Galway back in the day.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a first generation American who went to catholic schools growing up. Aside from wearing green I never celebrated st Patrick’s day. 30 years ago only the people of Irish descent decked out and celebrated it. Has this changed? My 6 year old woke up disappointed this morning expecting to see a mess and a green toilet because he learned it at school. I get that it’s fun but wondering what the norm is for families with no Irish heritage.

This definitely isn't true.

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Anonymous wrote:We always eat corned beef and cabbage, which my Irish friends tell me accrual Irish people don't do at all

My Irish SIL and her parents (immigrated from Ireland) make corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots every year. Their cabbage dish also has salt pork so I think that is what makes it more authentic.

Corned beef is not a thing in Ireland. The Irish ate it when they came over here, hence the association.

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Anonymous wrote:Messes?? Is this a new fad like the elf on the shelf?

Yes. It is. And it's ghastly.

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Anonymous wrote:We always eat corned beef and cabbage, which my Irish friends tell me accrual Irish people don't do at all

My Irish SIL and her parents (immigrated from Ireland) make corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots every year. Their cabbage dish also has salt pork so I think that is what makes it more authentic.

Corned beef is not a thing in Ireland. The Irish ate it when they came over here, hence the association.

Yep, it's specifically an adaptation of bacon and cabbage bought from Jewish butchers in East coast cities in the US.

She died before I was born but my mom said her Irish grandma hated cabbage and would get annoyed whenever someone cooked it.

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Anonymous wrote:We always eat corned beef and cabbage, which my Irish friends tell me accrual Irish people don't do at all

My Irish SIL and her parents (immigrated from Ireland) make corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots every year. Their cabbage dish also has salt pork so I think that is what makes it more authentic.

Corned beef is not a thing in Ireland. The Irish ate it when they came over here, hence the association.

Yep, it's specifically an adaptation of bacon and cabbage bought from Jewish butchers in East coast cities in the US.

She died before I was born but my mom said her Irish grandma hated cabbage and would get annoyed whenever someone cooked it.

Probably over did it growing up. The same way my dad and his siblings loathe beets.

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Anonymous wrote:We always eat corned beef and cabbage, which my Irish friends tell me accrual Irish people don't do at all

My Irish SIL and her parents (immigrated from Ireland) make corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots every year. Their cabbage dish also has salt pork so I think that is what makes it more authentic.

Corned beef is not a thing in Ireland. The Irish ate it when they came over here, hence the association.

Yep, it's specifically an adaptation of bacon and cabbage bought from Jewish butchers in East coast cities in the US.

She died before I was born but my mom said her Irish grandma hated cabbage and would get annoyed whenever someone cooked it.

Probably over did it growing up. The same way my dad and his siblings loathe beets.

And why I hate tuna noodle casserole.

[Anonymous]

40 years ago everyone at our school wore green, Irish ancestry or not.

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My mom’s family is 100% of Irish descent (and Catholic) and her family loves St Patrick’s Day (although this is the first I’m hearing of leprechaun messes and traps…). To her family, it was a celebration of their Irish heritage and a recognition that for many years people of Irish descent/Catholics were looked down on in the US. My relatives still talk about how it was such a huge deal when JFK was elected President, a big sea change. It’s really an Irish American celebration!

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I used it as an excuse to drink heavily when I was in my 20s. Does that count?

I am the least Hallmark holiday/social media person ever, but my kids learned about the leprechaun stuff at school when they were small. They built leprechaun traps themselves and I spent 30 seconds putting green food dye in the toilet for them to wake up to. That was it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure we have some Irish blood in us, but 150 years ago. We definitely celebrate! Kids set up leprechaun traps last night. The leprechaun ruined their traps, gave them chocolate coins, peed green in their toilets and left little footprints on the toilets (green paint I did). Kids ate lucky charms for breakfast. Tonight we'll eat corned beef, potatoes, carrots and Irish soda bread (with raisins, not sure that that's traditional) with some Guinness for the adults. We've been reading Irish kids books for the past month too.

I love holidays that everyone can celebrate like this and no one accuses you of appropriating their culture. My parents always had us eat corned beef and go to mass when I was a kid on St. Patrick's Day. And of course we always wore green.

Weird

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I’m of Irish heritage. We celebrate every year, but none of the leprechaun stuff.

We have Irish food. Play Irish music. Wear green. Talk about our irish heritage and the county of Ireland each part of my family is from.

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The Irish grandparents send us with a box of cookies that we give out to neighbors and friends. That's about it.

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Not Irish at all but even in K-12 public school in Florida we wore green. I think there were green frosted cupcakes in school lunch.

I went to college and lived in Boston area for almost 20 years. Big deal there. Wore green, went to bar. No green beer though ugh.

Here in DMV was disappointed it wasn't more of a thing. I still wear green.

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Not Irish and don't celebrate it unless invited out or over to someone's house and will join in their celebration. My DH drinks Guinness once a year today though.