Is it ok to wear a st patrick day shirt to celebrate?

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$20 for a T shirt is a sin, IMHO.

You can get a nice green dress shirt and neck tie for about the same price, and be able to wear it a lot more often than St. Paddy’s Day.
 
No. It is cultural appropriation and it’s offensive to Irish people. They’re a historically oppressed people and any attempt for non-Irish to appropriate Irish culture is a microaggression.

Just kidding. Wear the shirt.
 
the irish don’t even bother to wear green on st patrick’s day

notre dame is usually on spring break on 3/17 & the campus there is barren & desolate, with melting mud puddles of snow

it is a dumb american custom

i wear black on st patrick’s day
 
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Sorry. We’ll try and stop having some fun and only be super serious at all times. Fun is now anathema.

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I’m not sure…I believe it is a mortal sin to wear green under garments and socks on St. Patrick’s Day, and only a venial sin wearing green outer garments…but I will defer to the liturgists to weigh in officially on this.🤣
 
i think wearing green on st patrick’s day is a dopey american custom

the people in in ireland don’t bother with it

the “fighting irish” at notre dame make sure their students are dispersed to the winds on st patrick’s day

if you actually think coldly & logically about irish history

black is far more appropriate than “kelly green”
 
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Brian, are you Irish-American?

My grands didn’t talk about the olden days, but nobody was going around wearing black either.

You wore your green proudly, as in the song, “The Wearin’ o’ the Green”. Which notes that people used to be hanged for wearing it.

Can’t speak for the folks back in Ireland. That is not my culture and it would be presumptuous for me to impart the American culture back to them. But if you wore black for St. Patrick’s Day in my family, my mother would probably have bodily thrown you out of our house. 'Bout as bad as wearing orange.
 
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think wearing green on st patrick’s day is a dopey american custom

the people in in ireland don’t bother with it

the “fighting irish” at notre dame make sure their students are dispersed to the winds on st patrick’s day

if you actually think coldly & logically about irish history

black is far more appropriate than “kelly green”
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Have absolutely no idea how this applied to my post…but okay!
 
yes i am irish-american

my relatives are from belfast

they wear black every day, not just on st patrick’s day (which is not even a day that is recognized or celebrated in any way)

the pubs in dublin make hay on st patrick’s day from idiot tourists; that is as far as it goes on 3/17 in ireland from what i understand

st patrick’s day is a drunken american holiday (not that there is anything wrong with that)
 
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Yes, I specifically noted the celebratory stuff is totally an American custom. Which again I think is fine.

We weren’t from Belfast. We were from Cork and Roscommon. Maybe that had something to do with it.

I grew up in a heavily Irish-American Catholic area…everybody wore green (including the resident Polish and Eastern Europeans).

we also ate (and still eat) corned beef and cabbage, which as an adult I learned was actually something foisted on the irish-Americans by the Jewish shopkeepers. no matter, it is our tradition now.
 
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yes i do the corn beef & cabbage thing because that is what is expected

“wearing o’ the green”? not happeniing while redcoats still occupy northern ireland

sorry…
 
Let us hope those days are naturally coming to an end without bloodshed.

At least things are better now than they were back in the days of Bobby Sands and Ian Paisley (whom even my Scots Presbyterian in-laws couldn’t stand).
 
It says “Give me a hug, I’m Irish”

walks up to table of cheerleaders wearing shirt

ahem

Hey, Ladies, I’m Irish.
 
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