Seeking Irish Americans to march in St Patrick’s ‘people parade’ in Dublin

The St Paddy's Day Parade in Chicago is the one to see. Everyone tries to be "Irish" and we dye the river green (ironically, the powder is orange until it hits the water, then turns Kelley green). Politicos with names that end in -ski, -nez and -burg dig out their Irish roots, which is where the current occupant of the White House learned the technique, and it sure seemed to work! If the downtown parade is too co-opted for your tastes, try the Southside Irish Parade, which is being reinstated after a few years of sobering up. The Southside Irish consider any Irish north of 35th Street to be lace curtain fakirs. Come, enjoy and drink some green beer whilst wearing a silly hat.

Stick "The Gathering" up to the highest raftersin your A#$% What a crock of Sh@#

Willie Frazer is leading the Norn Iron contingent in the St Patrick's Day Parade carrying a Union Jill (ie union jack but in Irish colours). And Billy Hutchinson, after a complimentary Indian head massage, is dressing up as Darby O Gill, (anything to give his sartorially challenged Ulster Covenant undertaker persona a rest). And whilst Jackie McDonald will not be telling his loyalist lads to put up Irish tricolours, he won't be telling them to take them down either. He'll be cordially inviting them with goldrimmed invitations to do so. After all, it pays to be cognisant to the sensitivities of paramilitaries. They're hypersensitive chaps after all, having been brought up in a dysfunctional society.

m sorry, well no, but from everything I have read lon here- YOU do not like, American Irish!

Somebody please buy a ticket and I will be the guest.

Mairin67: "Leave it to the Irish." Have you been in Dublin for the St Patrick's Parade in the last five or six years? They don't "leave it to the Irish". In fact there is almost nothing Irish about the Dublin parade, except the flag at the beginning. The parade is dominated by Poles, Africans, Pakistanis, Romanys etc. You see, the Irish don't think their culture and history are interesting.

This is just a revenue stunt - the anglo oriented Debulin establishment has no interest in promoting real Irish culture.

No thanks. I prefer the New York parade. Besides, if everyone is as welcoming as MAIRIN67 appears to be, why should we??

Careful what you ask for...they shouldn't be giving up an Irish event to Irish Americans or Irish-anything. Leave it to the Irish. Of course, this is nothing but a big tourism boost. It's all about the Euro.

the call should go out to those whom Shatter fancies, especially his tribe members, but then again, they might be reluctant to spend their scheckels in Eire due to his harangue some months back about the people of the Republic on not having done what they should for his very own, during WWII. It was not enough that Eire was UKs breadbasket and source of labor throughout the conflict. Such Erinacts fasting and shipping of all manner of edibles that helped to do their bit in ushering an end to the madness that the Saxon Germanic pair engaged in. The neutral con working to perfection thanks to England's Greatest Spy Eamon DeValera, whose dad was one of Shatter's own.

I wish I could be part of that "crowd" but finances make it impossible. I show my Irish pride in hundreds of ways, but mostly through my home...which is a small cottage containing everything Irish I can get my hands on...from a framed and matted copy of the 1916 Proclamation to the much expected claddagh in many forms, two very large tara brooches (one in copper, the other in ceramic) that grace my walls...and the list goes on and on. I consider myself to be fiercely Irish...although I rarely drink, LOL.

No doubt that the false stereotype the Irish have of Irish-Americans will have them expecting us to all march in Aran sweaters, Kelly green plastic caps, speaking in fake Irish accents (and very loudly might I add), drinking green beer and carrying donation buckets for the IRA. A good opportunity for us to show them how wrong and outdated that stereotype is!