is St Patrick's Day a big holiday in the rest of the world?

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  • Mutt
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Sep 2002
    • 34431
    #1

    is St Patrick's Day a big holiday in the rest of the world?

    or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

    is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?
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    • calista
      Registered User
      • Mar 2008
      • 88
      #2
      Happy St Patrick's Day!!

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        • ffmihai
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          • Jun 2002
          • 7177
          #3
          sorry, when is it?

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            • ffmihai
              keep walking...
              • Jun 2002
              • 7177
              #4
              sorry, when is it?

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                • frank7799
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 1974
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Mutt
                  or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

                  is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?
                  I just read it´s a bank holiday in Northern Ireland, but I haven´t heard of it being holiday in other European countries.

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                    • AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE
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                      • Mar 2003
                      • 30307
                      #6
                      Its pretty big in Iraq, Iran, N. Korea and Saudi Arabia.

                      Why hell I even heard the Taliban shoot extra heroine on St Pat's day.

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                        • CosmicTang
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                          • Feb 2007
                          • 1478
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Mutt
                          or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

                          is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?
                          I'm pretty sure it's a big deal in Ireland.
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                            • digifan
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                              • Oct 2002
                              • 14618
                              #8
                              But the rest of the world has no idea about it.
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                                • Diligent
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                                  • Aug 2003
                                  • 1594
                                  #9
                                  ^-- What she (right?) said.

                                  It happens to be as big as it is in the U.S. (and Canada? New knowledge of the day for me) because...:

                                  You had shitloads of Irish immigrants within the same timeframe as Swedes and people of a few other european nationalites immigrated into the states.
                                  There was a rush over somewhere between 1820 and 1920 (off the top of my head) when the times got hard on mostly farmers in Europe...
                                  and there was plenty of U.S. land deals available for immigrants at the time.

                                  So it's just imported traditions from one of the larger nationality groups who emigrated from Europe.
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                                    • rowan
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                                      • Mar 2002
                                      • 17393
                                      #10
                                      It's celebrated in Australia but it's not a big thing. Same with Halloween.

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                                        • DutchTeenCash
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                                          • Feb 2003
                                          • 21684
                                          #11
                                          noone knows it here - holland that is

                                          but offcourse Im celebrating it with friends and the Green Fairy


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                                            • Mutt
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                                              • Sep 2002
                                              • 34431
                                              #12
                                              thats what i figured - another North American concoction.
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                                                • Useless Warrior
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                                                  • Apr 2004
                                                  • 975
                                                  #13
                                                  I don't consider it to be big here in the U.S. I suppose it must depend on how close you live to bars.

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                                                    • Fletch XXX
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                                                      • Jan 2002
                                                      • 60840
                                                      #14
                                                      He wasnt even a Saint, (never canonized by church) he was a slave and its a wage slave holiday.

                                                      I dont celebrate it, nor do I celebrate any of the major christian "holy days."

                                                      get real, days of superstition and puritan fairy tale have been long dead...
                                                      Last edited by Fletch XXX; 03-17-2008, 03:20 PM.

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                                                        • bushwacker
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                                                          • Jun 2002
                                                          • 2817
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by Fletch XXX
                                                          He wasnt even a Saint, (never canonized by church) he was a slave and its a wage slave holiday.

                                                          I dont celebrate it, nor do I celebrate any of the major christian "holy days."

                                                          get real, days of superstition and puritan fairy tale have been long dead...
                                                          I guess you are not wearing any green today?

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                                                            • Fletch XXX
                                                              GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!!
                                                              • Jan 2002
                                                              • 60840
                                                              #16
                                                              Originally posted by bushwacker
                                                              I guess you are not wearing any green today?
                                                              Ive worn black every day for over a decade or so now... as an antitheist i gotta shoot down this religious crap, its an insult to those of us with brains.

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