Erin go braugh!!

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haha
I'd love to, but it may be strange kissed by another girl, eh?

I have 24% Irish blood in me, I am proud of is as my Japanese and north American Indian bloods, I may have others but those are the most dominant in my looks.

eh, I not much into celebrating of holidays congrats to all

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he he well yeah considering there were 8million of us and more going back to before the famine and that the vast majority of those 5million that didn't die either borded the coffin ships to America or were sent to the english prison colony's like Aus. and then later New Zealand I'm not at all suprised there are so many Irish and Irish decendents around the world. (And more recently immigrant Irish that left Ireland during the eighties due to lack of jobs.)

But what I think is just a little strange but, don't get me wrong, thouroughly thouroughly fantastic is that it's not just immigrant Irish and Irish decendants getting together to enjoy the day but city councils like New York and Sydney and Wellington and even London allowing parades and organising city wide celebrations. And ppl who have no connection to being Irish (there are a few I hear ) love to join in too!
But also there are millions of Immigrant Chinese in America, who along with the Irish, and Africans helped lay the foundations of growth and Industry etc, and chances are you'll find a chinatown in most major cities today but when is they're national saints day?? I know I haven't a notion.

I guess whats got me thinking this is that I was overwhelmed by the effort I saw the last two years I was away and also that I saw a program on english t.v. recently about a very uppercrust Englishman worrying about the state of Britishness today. So he went around asking the general english public, general knowledge questions about there own country, like Who was the Queens father? and Who is the patron Saint of England? The vast majority just didn't have a clue or were wild guessing. But I'm guessing you ask any random punter in whatever Westernised country who St. Patrick is or when his national day is and they'll mostly get it right.

It is great to be Irish!

he he I'll stop rambling now

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For the lesser even as for the greater, there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only and in that deed his heart shall rest. - Feanor, The Quenta Silmarillion.

Oh, I don't think it's strange just because so many Irish were "displaced" throughout history... when you realize how many of the Irish who went to those other countries never actually intended to stay in them... I think it's understandible. Not being at home they clung more tightly to their beliefs and traditions and expanded on them to strengthen those bonds from such a distance and keep it alive for their children who may have never seen and may never end up with the chance to see their homeland. I think it makes sense... but then I'm from a "displaced" family and a total history nut so I might just be a little weird

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