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Re: st. pattys day
I actually wear orange. My dad is half Irish and it was drilled into him from the time he was little. We're protestant Irish (as were my ancestors), and protestant Irish wear orange on St. Patty's Day (the orange in the flag stands for the protestant part of Ireland).
To spare me from being pinched, I do wear one piece of green. It's actually my engagement ring, which I wear all the time anyway. It just happens to have a green diamond, so that covers me.
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DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Wearing orange on St. Patrick's Day is a good way to get your ass kicked. While it's true that it's and Irish Holiday, it's really a Catholic day. You have your Orange Parade in July - you know that's the day Prods go around burning down Irish homes and businesses and lynching Catholic children on their way to church - so kindly leave our holiday alone.
St. Patrick's day is a Holy Day of Obligation and it used to be a solemn day of prayer. The first St. Patrick's day parade, held in NYC, started out as a civil right march. They were fed up with being discriminated against and segregated "No Irish need apply". The drinking part has become the biggest sore point for many Irish. Back in the day the only way to socialize or get the latest news was to go to the local "public house" and while you were there chewing the fat, you'd have a drink or two to be sociable. The bead, green beer and teenagers throwing up in the gutters are all a modern phenomenon and has absolutely nothing to do with St. Patrick's day.
Leprechauns have nothing to do with St. Patrick's day either. As an Irish-Catholic-American, I resent the hijacking of the day and I despise all the non-Irish-Catholics who use this day as a reason to get drunk and act stupid. If you go to real Irish neighborhoods and real Irish Pubs you will see the real St. Patrick's day. People having a few drinks, dancing, laughing, crying and singing songs about the English and how they destroyed Ireland and the Irish people.
St. Patrick was a Catholic holy man, he brought Catholicism to Ireland, he used the shamrock to illustrate the concept of the Holy Trinity. The Irish Protestants are descendants of English Protestants (Henry the 8th broke away from the Catholic church and created the Church of England) who came to Ireland, stole the land from the local Irish and basically destroyed Irish culture so they have no claim to St. Patrick or the day.
I have a shamrock wreath on my door. I wear green and so do the kids. Even dh wears green, and he is Italian! Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's day!
We usually have corned beef and cabbage, but we have it at my parent's home and usually the weekend before. I try to make something with Kale and sausage, since those are also Irish dishes. I also try to get my kids to a parade (not the big one in NY), but we didn't go this year b/c it was raining. I avoid the big towns with a bunch of drunks like Hoboken and NYC.
Two days later is St. Joseph's feast day (Italian) and we celebrate that by eating Italian pastries!
tupelo - thanks for the hisory lesson...i think???
i was pretty sure i asked a fairly simple question.
kellslw- - your green diamond ering sounds pretty!
Thanks! I like it because it's different. Everyone gets confused when they first see it because they assume it's an emerald, but then they realize it's not as dark as an emerald but not as light as tanzanite (I think that's the other green stone?). When I tell them it's a green diamond, it completely throws them off.
I'd love to see a photo of it!
I wanted a yellow or a pale pink diamond, but never found one that I fell in love with.
You might be thinking Peridot, August's birthstone. Tanzanite is blueish/purple.
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Ahh thank you!