BLACK ROSE
There's nothing quite like St. Patty's Day in Boston. Go to Ireland: they get all pious and holy; go to The Vatican: and all the Roman Catholics are saying their prayers; Anywhere else in the world they don't even know what you're talking about. But in the United States, when it comes to this particular day, Americans do what they've always done on holidays religious, national, historical, or otherwise: claim it as their own and throw one hell of a party!
Of course, living in Boston, you have to be completely daft to have missed that we are the original and unmatched Mecca for all things Irish-American. St. Patty's may not be a public holiday anywhere else in the country, but here, it is a serious drinking holiday, and I know many a Bostonian willing to call in "sick" for an early start at the bar.
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