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[quote=Anonymous]As others have said, it's more of an Irish-American than an Irish holiday. Indeed, the origins of the holiday are quite different in New York City and in Boston. In NYC, it was a religious thing. Parade started as a reaction to the Know Nothing Party. The archdiocese of NY's patron saint is St Patrick and its cathedral is St. Patrick's. So originally, it was more a celebration of Catholicism than of the Irish.The cardinal always comes out and blesses the parade and the Church determines who can officially march in the parade and the slogans that can be used. "England Out of Ireland" was about as far as the Church would let people go back in the day. Histoically gays were not allowed to march under a banner saying they were gay. It almost always happens during Lent and if it falls on a Friday, the archdiocese of New York grants everyone a dispensation so they can eat their corned beef. (Normally Catholics can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent.) Lots of people who give up drinking for Lent make an exception for St Pat's. Frankly, the dispensation is granted because Irish pubs do a lot of business on St. Pat's but when it fell on a Friday they got very few customers and so they petitioned for the dispensation. Boston St. Pat's was never a religious event. In Boston itself, the day is a holiday. It's NOT St. Pat's. It's "Evacuation Day," which is only a holiday in Suffolk County (Boston) and not across the river in Cambridge of for that matter in the rest of Massachusetts. The St Patrick's Day parade isn't on St. Pat's but rather on the Sunday after it. If you're not Irish, nobody cares if you celebrate. It's mostly in large cities with lots of Irish-Americans that it's anything approaching a big deal.[/quote]
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