I grew up Irish-American which meant that we always celebrated St. Patrick's Day. My mother was first-generation Irish in America and my grandparents came from Cork. My mother held onto her Irish heritage and prepared many Irish recipes throughout the year and always celebrated St. Patrick's Day by going to mass to be blessed, followed by an Irish breakfast, tea in the afternoon, and the Irish-American corned beef and cabbage with all the sides in the evening.
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| Two St. Patrick's Day partygoers "wearing their green" |
St. Patrick's Day was a day of cooking, joke-telling, dancing, and singing. A joyous time for wearing green.
My mother never decorated the house with green streamers, shamrock stickers, or balloons. Instead, her decorations consisted of family photographs of her travels to her homeland and framed posters of Cork Ireland on the wall. The Irish party essentials were a green tablecloth, green classic paper plates, napkins, and mugs for Irish coffee.
Here are a few classic-styled St Patrick’s Day table-setting products and mugs.
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by Susang6
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The most important thing for a party is to have aprons to protect your clothes, table-setting essentials including a platter for your corned beef, and Irish music by the Clancy brothers.
Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a traditional Irish-American dinner? Do you wear green color clothing?
3 comments:
Our town has an Italian/Irish festival and although my hubby is Italian, I also head for the corn beef and cabbage!!
I am part Irish too, but I dont celebrate.
Have you been to Cork? It is a beautiful place to visit. One of the amazing landscapes I have seen in Ireland.
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