157 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 3 Mar freebie \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
It’s a real holiday in Ireland. Great Britain ended its colonial occupation and rule of Ireland in 1921. There is a certain awkwardness, and racism, around that settlement with regards to Northern Ireland (which remains part of the United Kingdom) which means St Patrick’s day is largely ignored in Britain.
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 3 Mar
It always amuses me seeing how popular it is in the U.S. and other parts of the world and yet not in the U.K. Hadn’t really considered the reasons until you mentioned it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 3 Mar
The only way a US white male can feel part of an oppressed minority is as an Irish descendent perhaps… and New York and Chicago uniform services were full of Irish migrants originally. The Uk is just ‘complicated’
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