Half of Americans unaware St. Patrick is patron saint of Ireland

We Americans love the Irish for all they have done for us as a nation. We celebrate that more than the day a saint died. Happy Saint Patricks Day!! Have a pint and put it on Murph's tab.

Sir Peter, the shame of it is, you are right about the current young people in America not knowing who their "daddys" are. However, it is a sad fact that is related to our culture and lack of respect for the family unit. Two values that Catholicism (for all its flaws) and most religions promote. We can joke about it but when you see the effect up close and personal it is heartbreaking!

BTW-King Georgie the Wacker-----Who created riverdance--two Americans??? You a a first class Wacker!!

King Georgie the Wacker-- The Wanna-be...... Funny thing is no one wants him..... to quote another blogger, he is a shame to the Americans......

If it were not for St. Patricks Day, most Americans and for that matter most other nations would not care about what St. Patrick did when he was in Ireland. Tread lightly on the Americans, they have bailed out your pathetic economy by accepting your huddled masses for over 150 years now and are always willing to do so again.

And very few Americans know that in the Santeria/VooDoo cults/religions St. Patrick represents the chief of the gods.

Mr. MacGregor needs to do some homework about his ancestry, but that's not what this is about. It may be true that 1/2 of Irish-Americans don't know Padraigh is the Patron Saint of Ireland, but neither do they know that if it wasn't for him, Ireland would never have had the religious wars that plagued her for so long. I wear black, that day.

Yup!!Ciaradexy is right.Though I have to say I had to Google the word because it does sound plausible that it was related to the garbled tones of a West Brit.

IrelandNorth, I suggest you google the term instead of doing a Georgie by making up a new meaning for a word thats around long before the term West Brit was coined. Whats with the sudden racism towards Europeans?

ciara[po]xy! Wrong again. "Oirish" is a term that was coined to describe pretentious, middle-class, Trinity educated, west-Brit twits from south Dublin to describe the garbled tones with which they desperatedly try to ape their grandparents former colonial paymasters. Now we have a new phenomenon, a plastic-Patricia who thinks she's Irish but is in fact a post-colonial, historically revised, culturally illiterate clone who is a byproduct of a mongrelised race of people courtesy of the European Union.

“We have 11 pipes and drum bands" Why do Irish-Americans continue to promote Scottish culture as being Irish? Are you guys that out of touch with your own unique culture? And please, do not embarrass yourself by claiming that Highland culture is originally Irish, or that the Scottish people came from Ireland - you couldn't be more wrong

Half of Americans couldn't tell you who's the President of the US, let alone where Ireland is on a map. I like how Tullamore Dew sets out to quantify American ignorance... go get 'em boys! Your whiskey's ok, but it's no Bushmills "10" or Knappogue Castle.

Here George Dildo, Im heading out now for a bitta Diddley aye with some real Irish people so enjoy Fox news and your George Bush shrine to all things religious and anti-the rest of the world. Good night.

If youre going to use an Irish slang term, use it correctly- "Oirish" is a term coined by amused Irish natives to describe anything associated with the tourist cult of Ireland that paints it as the land of shamrocks, blarney stones, leprechauns, and Guinness. It can also be used to describe anyone who despite many generations in the new world and questionable Irish ancestry constantly proclaims themselves to be Irish. This can range from an innocent baseball cap with a shamrock on it to a drunken twit in a kilt idiotically greeting everyone with a faux accented "top o' the mornin' to yah laddie". OR ''fake irish, plastic paddy good way of describing Irish Americans''. Now that youve managed to read, youll see that the term cannot be applied to Irish people so stop making yourself look even more like a think American than you are.

Oi thicko George Dildo! We are well aware that Flatley and Butler are yanks! Well aware thanks! While Flatley was doing his brest to try and make people think he was irish, my younger cousins were Irish dancing. How many Irish people do you actually know? Seeing as you like to generalise so much about us. So how many do you actually know and interact with on a daily basis? Now chatting to someone walking a red setter in the park when youre out dogging doesnt count. I love how you use the term 'intellegent readers''. Most people on here are American who have never ever even visited Ireland and yet theyre just like you! They post on this site about issues, people and a country they know NOTHING of! Youre an ignoramous Georgie! You havent a clue. Imagine I came on here and kept posting that Americans were dumb. ALL AMERICANS ARE RED NECK HICKS WHO ARE IGNORANT TO WHAT GOES ON OUTSIDE THE US. THE US IS A COUNTRY FULL OF INBREDS WHO OPEN FIRE ON EACH OTHER IN SCHOOL, THEY MAKE THEIR KIDS RUN NAKED THROUGH THE SNOW AND THEY MAKE THEIR LITTLE GIRLS RUN TILL THEYRE DEAD ALL FOR EATING A BAR OF CHOCOLATE. AMERICANS ARE FAT, VILE, NASTY, BIGOTED,RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS WHO THINK THE US CAN DO NO WRONG. AMERICANS VOTE FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGION RATHER THAN WHAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE. Sad, isnt it.