OT: Happy St. Patrick's Day and Air Kraken Day (UK)
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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! (Happy St. Patrick's Day! In Irish Gaelic) also Happy Air Kraken Day (unoffcial Steampunk holiday in UK)
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You make that sound as though we don't celebrate St Patrick's day in the UK. We do however.
In London https://www.london.gov.uk/events/2018-03-16/london-st-patricks-day-festival-2018
In Cardiff https://www.whatonnow.co.uk/event/saint-patricks-day-cardiff-2018/
In Edinburgh http://www.whatsoninedinburgh.co.uk/events/st-patricks-day/
In Glasgow https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/about-celebrations-across-the-city-14399255
and of course
In Belfast https://visitbelfast.com/whats-on/events/st-patricks-day-parade-and-concert-2018
And all points in between.
The main celebaration may be in Dublin, but over this side of the water on March 17 there are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were.
Never heard of that other thing you mentioned.
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Oh, I did not mean to slight the UK, I like to watch the festivities there via YouTube! It's a big day in some U. S. cities as well. In Louisiana there are parades in many areas. A long tradition in Baton Rouge and around New Orleans. In NO, in addition to the usual green beads, cups and flowers, the people on the parade floats throw cabbages, potatoes, turnips and carrots. The crowds cheer when someone misses catching the cabbage and it hits the ground and explodes! I think they do not allow that any more, as getting hit in the head with a cabbage can obviously cause injury. It's also an incredible mess to clean up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzMRebfMZY
After St. Patricks Day and St. Josephs Day, they usually hold an Irish/Italian parade to re-use the floats and get rid of anything they did not throw in the other parades.
We used to celebrate St. Patrick Day at work (before I retired), and I used to cook the corned beef, cabbage, etc. I tried to start a St. Andrew's Day celebration, and offered to bring the Haggis and my bagpipes. There was a surprising lack of enthusiasm....
Greetings from Ireland agus beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraig daoibh go léir!
Great celebrations here in Ireland having just won the rugby grand slam in London on our national saint's day. Love to see the world turn green on March 17th.
Just a note of clarification: St. Paddy's Day is universal, wilst Air Kraken Day is unofficially celebrated only in the UK Steampunk scene and certain Steampunk enclaves in the US. The holidays are complimentary, as the custom for Air Kraken Day is to stay indoors in the bars and pubs and drink beer, so that you are safe from the Air Krakens which might otherwise snatch you off the streets and devour you. Works for me.
Oh absolutey great news about the grand slam, and as you say, what a day to win that.. If Wales doesn't win it then the next best is Ireland. My Sons both relocated to Ireland (we do have Irish blood in the family). Neil still lives in County Dublin, He got 2nd class honours BSc at DCU and went on the read for his Masters at Trinity. A few years ago I did get to visit him and his family and was in Dublin for St Patrick's day but went to the local parade in Lusk, not the big one in the city.
I was going to say, I'm in the UK and I've never heard of Air Kraken Day.
According to Facebook, today is the Day of St. Gertrude. The Saint of Cats and Cat Lovers.
So Happy Saint Patrick's, Air Kraken and Gertude's Day everyone ;)
Happy St. Pat's!
Congrats to Wales on beating France and placing second! Eddie Jones can eat humble pie. LOL I’m a Trinity graduate myself and my kids take courses in DCU, so I know them both very well. The local parades are a laugh, quaint, but still in the spirit. The parade in the city can get a bit crazy.
Gorgeous!
Thanks!
...in Chicago they dye the Chicago River green (if it isn't all choked up with Ice), and have one of the biggest St Pat's day parades in the nation.
Wonderful picture!
Here are 5 ways Americans invented St. Patrick's Day. It is on the internet, and it is from the U.S. government, so must be true.
Hope the day was happy for everyone.
My parents took those DNA tests, and we just got the results. Who would have thought a Murphy and a Gavaghan were Irish?
Hmmm, isn't the Chicago River the one that caught fire because of all the polution a few decades ago?
Found it: http://www.americanasparagus.org/1/txt/meier
Harumph, so it was a century and a few decades ago.
When you're my age, a hundred years doesn't seem that long ago. 
Trust the Americans to want to own St patrick's day. They can't even remember that it is St patrick's day or sometimes Paddies day. Never St pat or Patty. And corned beef and cabbage huh, no way. No one this side of the pond had ever even heard of corned beef until after World War 2, when the americans shipped it over to us in cans because we were a bit short of fresh food and food was rationed. And everywhere in the UK as well as Ireland got deliveries of corned beef, so no way would it have become an Irish national dish. The boxes it arrived in came in useful as well
@Chohole - Not just St. Patrick's Day, we Americans also invented Cinco De Mayo. Again, on the internet and from CNN, so must be true.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/05/us/cinco-de-mayo-origins/index.html
So what about St David's day, St George's day and St Andrew's day. And how did they dare invent St Patrick's day to coincide with the far more important St Gertrude's day.
I'm still googling to find out how Americans invented Bastille Day, but when finished, I'll check on the other feast days.
A more recent river fire was the Cayuga in Cleveland. http://time.com/3921976/cuyahoga-fire/
EDIT: bottom line, you need not feel so old because you remember the Cleveland river fire but have been told about the Chicago one.
Thank you, I feel younger already. I don't remember much of the late '60s & early '70s except blacklight posters, tie-dye shirts, long hair, and smoke filled rooms.
Probably because of the type of smoke in those smoke filled rooms.
I remember that we, the liberal minded hippies received lots of grief from the redneck crewcut local yokels over our long hair. Funny now how we grew up and adopted short hair as a preferred style and the local yokels now have adopted long hair. Such silliness over hair length.
But whenever I find a hidden photo of myself from those days I'm aghast at my fashion sense! 
Thank god I've at least discarded the clothes.
Yeah! Everybody likes cats - why no St. Gertrude's celebration? They have a great St. Joseph's Day tradition in LA. They even celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival (dragon boat races on the lake near my neighborhood) Tried for years to drum up interest in a St. Andrew's Day here....Haggis, bagpipes....what's not to like?
I live in L.A. What is St. Joseph's Day??? (I know we DID invent Oscar & Emmy Day though, which is probably bigger and much more celebrated here than anywhere else LOL)