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* St. Patrick's Day in Ireland is a boisterous but religious holiday. Irish-Americans, however, turned it into a celebration of their unique immigrant culture. The first St Patrick's Day parade was in [[New York City]] in ''1762'', while the first in Ireland was in Dublin in 1931. Over the years it's become, like Cinco de Mayo, an excuse to throw a theme party and drink a lot. In England, St. Patrick's Day is also far more widely celebrated in England than St. George's Day, though mostly as an excuse for drinking. This can be largely attributed to the Guinness Corporation.

* [[All Hallow's Eve|Halloween]] is more popular in the US, despite its Irish origins as ''Oíche Shamhna'', the ancient New Year's Day; the bridging of the boundary between years is mirrored by the weakening of the gap between the world of the living and that of the dead. Bonfire is a calque of the Irish ''tine cnámh'', "bone fire". Americans turned it into a secular holiday about playful scares, costumes and candy. The new holiday has spread throughout countries such as Germany, Austria, and even back into Ireland, where the new style has largely replaced the old.

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