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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a 54 yo woman with no Irish heritage. My understanding was that “everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s day”. As a child we always celebrated by wearing green and pinching those who didn’t. Sometimes we might watch a movie like The Quiet Man, Darby O’Gill and the Little People or Finian’s Rainbow. There were lots of leprechaun and shamrock decorations at businesses and schools. As times changed, the pinching stopped, but we still wore green. When I found Irish soda bread in stores that was added to our family’s festivities. Messes were never part of the celebration. That sounds like the same kind of folderol as Elf on the Shelf and neighborhood “booing” where people are pressured into going to a lot of trouble because someone bored invented a custom. I’m grateful that I’m old enough that these practices weren’t established when my now grown children were still kids.[/quote]
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