Move St.Patrick's Day

Xenophile · 24-01-2012 11:29PM

efb wrote: »

Good Friday is not a Public Holiday in Ireland

And never should be in an all inclusive society.

bb1234567 · 24-01-2012 11:56PM

I was just thinking about this the other day and I too think it should be moved towards the summer months. Ok so this is how I see it St.patrciks day should be turned into a sort of national holiday about a week long,3 days before and 3 after the big day.St.patricks day should be turned into a huge irish event that will attract lots of tourists worldwide. Call it irish heritage festival, shops ,streets,houses put up decorations like you would in halloween, xmas and make a big deal of it ,whole city up in beautiful lights and decorations. Big festivals, parades,concerts by the big artists,music festivals, big markets of all kinds, food fairs, street performers all over the city,free shows, people dress up, fireworks displays,lots of drink , all week long.eat loads of yummy food. People try to speak irish too.
Make it a really fun week and all the kids and teenagers would be off school because itd be during summer and adults could still go out and have a great night after work. us and canada gets thanksgiving, and seeing as we dont I think we should get a worthy replacement not just a one day event but a whole week long holiday. Oh ye and paddys day should get a traditional dinner like the way you eat a special dinner on xmas. any ideas what the special paddys day dinner should, maybe brussel sprouts:p
just a suggestion, I think its be cool:)

Xenophile · 25-01-2012 12:09AM

bb1234567 wrote: »

I was just thinking about this the other day and I too think it should be moved towards the summer months. Ok so this is how I see it St.patrciks day should be turned into a sort of holiday about a week long,3 days before and after the big day.St.patricks day should be turned into a huge irish event that will attract lots of tourists worldwide. Call it irish heritage week, shops ,houses put up decorations like you would in halloween, xmas and make a big deal of it. Big festivals, parades,concerts by the big artists,music festivals, big markets of all kinds, food fairs, street performers all over the city, people dress up, fireworks displays,drink, all week long. People try to speak irish too.
Make it a really fun week and all the kids and teenagers would be off school because itd be during summer and adults could still go out and have a great night after work. us and canada gets thanksgiving, and seeing as we dont I think we should get a worthy replacement not just a one day event but a whole week long holiday. Oh ye and paddys day should get a traditional dinner like the way you eat a special dinner on xmas. any ideas what the special paddys day dinner should, maybe brussel sprouts:p
just a suggestion, I think its be cool:)

For food a traditional Irish stew..................time to show the world and ourselves how to make a really good one. And for drink.....something new... Gaelic Tay......tea, good whiskey, honey and cream.

bb1234567 · 25-01-2012 12:48AM

Xenophile wrote: »

For food a traditional Irish stew..................time to show the world and ourselves how to make a really good one. And for drink.....something new... Gaelic Tay......tea, good whiskey, honey and cream.

ooh good idea:) +1

bb1234567 · 25-01-2012 01:06AM

Xenophile wrote: »

For food a traditional Irish stew..................time to show the world and ourselves how to make a really good one. And for drink.....something new... Gaelic Tay......tea, good whiskey, honey and cream.

ok so...meal plan.Traditional paddys day meal plan to make the day like a real holiday like xmas:)
In the morning of paddys day you would have full irish breakfast.
Lunch-meh..anything i guess.
Dinner
Starters: Veg +brown bread
Main:Irish stew with sprouts and roast spuds:)
Dessert: Trifel and cream,strawberries/berries and cream and miringue
Drink:like you said .something new... Gaelic Tay......tea, good whiskey, honey and cream.
and then lots of alchohol .

smcelhinney · 25-01-2012 01:19AM

Feck off. Its my birthday. Probably the only unique thing about me. Im pretty banal.

WoollyRedHat · 25-01-2012 01:30AM

Xenophile wrote: »

Let's move St.Patrick's Day from spring into summer.

Why?

1)Better weather.

2) Enough holidays around Easter anyway!

3) Too long a period in summer without a public holiday........first Monday in June to the first Monday in August.

New suggested date 12th.July. Both traditions and all people on the island of Ireland to celebrate a New National Day on the same day..............and let's have a new name for it ..........America has a Thanksgiving Day............let's us have a Forgiveness Day.

Sure if St. Patrick could move all the snakes out of Ireland, then I guess we can move his feast day a bit.

Yakult · 25-01-2012 01:33AM

Abolish the day completely and just make up a new saint, St. Get The Fuck drunk. 21st of June sounds good.

WoollyRedHat · 25-01-2012 01:35AM

Yakult wrote: »

Abolish the day completely and just make up a new saint, St. Get The Fuck drunk. 21st of June sounds good.

No fair, that's my birthday

The Scientician · 25-01-2012 01:44AM

The Troika just rang and it's cancelled this year anyway.

25-01-2012 02:15AM

I think the 12th of July is a great idea for an extra public holiday. Move the August holiday to the end of the month and you have three evenly spaced out holidays during the summer (or what passes for summer here anyway).

Can't do Bastille Day - Sarkozy hates us. :eek:

nice_very · 25-01-2012 04:22AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Keep it as it is. Don't want it being on the 12th of July. That would not be right.

now theres a first... I actually agree with you Cèith.........

you might be reminded that you are... Irish I would hate for you to feel bad.

so keep the "twalfth" for burning the Green White and ORANGE flag that you lot hate so much..

Doc · 25-01-2012 04:44AM

The feast day of St. Patrick can be and has been moved by the Church to avoid a conflict with Holy Week. Having said that I don’t think it should be.

Jesus Wept · 25-01-2012 04:45AM

It's a shit day.

Cú Giobach · 25-01-2012 09:23AM

Definitely the 12th, we could sit back and watch the hilarity ensue as these lads bump into this.
Now that would be something to open the popcorn for.

Xenophile · 25-01-2012 09:46AM

si_guru wrote: »

June to Aug is too long...????

By your plan - what about Jan 1st to Easter (which can be April 25th!)

Long Christmas and New year break next major holiday Easter. Not a good time of the year to organize festivals indoor or outdoors. A great national celebration in the middle of July would be an enormous boost to the tourist industry and of course it would be a big attraction to returning emigrants.

conorhal · 25-01-2012 09:51AM

Absolutely not, I won't be denied the simple pleasure of watching hot American cheerleaders shiver shimmy their way down O' Connell St. all 'pert' on account of it being a bit nippley out....

fryup · 25-01-2012 10:04AM

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Definitely the 12th, we could sit back and watch the hilarity ensue as these lads bump into this.
Now that would be something to open the popcorn for.

more like bump into this

Cú Giobach · 25-01-2012 10:46AM

fryup wrote: »

more like bump into this

But they're those followers of that English association football game, Paddy's day is the laughing, smiling, happy go lucky non footbally Irish people dancing and cavorting on the streets with a joyous and gay abandon.

fryup · 25-01-2012 11:05AM

Cú Giobach wrote: »

But they're those followers of that English association football game, Paddy's day is the laughing, smiling, happy go lucky non footbally Irish people dancing and cavorting on the streets with a joyous and gay abandon.

ya right :rolleyes:

Cú Giobach · 25-01-2012 11:59AM

fryup wrote: »

ya right :rolleyes:

He he, the fact you produced a link to "prove" me wrong, that's funny.

Got out of bed the wrong side this morning did ya?

Xenophile · 25-01-2012 07:01PM

mossyc123 wrote: »

I say in a spirit of reconcilliation we re-align with our Northern brethren and take The Glorious Twelfth off every year ...

Thank you.....................I like the term reconcilliation..........so my friend you have named it "Reconciliation Day"

MagicSean · 25-01-2012 07:03PM

Get rid of it. Have a national pride day sometime in June instead. We need to move away from religious icons.

fryup · 25-01-2012 07:12PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

yes totally agree lets have ONE big Gay day for the whole island instead..gay prods & micks cuming together as one:)

i'm not gay btw

KeithAFC · 25-01-2012 07:56PM

nice_very wrote: »

now theres a first... I actually agree with you Cèith.........

you might be reminded that you are... Irish I would hate for you to feel bad.

so keep the "twalfth" for burning the Green White and ORANGE flag that you lot hate so much..

:pac:

Its an art form.

Move St.Patrick's Day

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