Leave it to Americans to completely bastardize a legit holy day and the traditions associated with it. We always knew that the level of intense debauchery that’s associated with St. Patrick’s Day stateside probably isn’t commemorative of St. Patty’s frequenting of Irish pubs. (And F.Y.I., until recently, booze was unavailable on the Emerald Isle on exactly two days per year–Good Friday and Mar. 17. Now that’s Ire-onic!) We realized that, at some point in the distant past, people probably took the sanctity of the day seriously, but we never imagined that even our tamer St. Patrick’s practices were so wrong. read more »

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Tags:green, Ireland, Ken Shamrock, St. Patrick's Day
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