Why St Patrick's Day went global
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- St Patrick’s Day is celebrated by 149m people in America alone. How did Ireland's saint's day become a global event?
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on TH-cam: econ.st/2xvTKdy
For more from Economist Films visit: films.economist...
Check out The Economist’s full video catalogue: econ.st/20IehQk
Like The Economist on Facebook: / theeconomist
Follow The Economist on Twitter: / theeconomist
Follow us on Instagram: / theeconomist
Follow us on Medium: / the_economist
Why St. Patrick's day went global:
People like to drink
Plus the flirting that comes with it!
LOL
True Fact !
Lamar Myart For the same reason Americans like 5 de Mayo: any excuse to drink!!!!
@@slippery_slobber how about staying sober and don't cultural appropriate.
It went global because we all love a good piss up.
terry City of Liverpool. 🤣🤣😂😂👍
@Edward Gross yup people abroad loved the excuse to drink and have a party
@Bo Zo I'll drink to that.🍺🍺🍺
@@Ksyusha1 🍺🍺🍺🍺👍👍
@Edward Gross 👍👍🍺🍺🍺
Happy St. Patrick’s day to all the Irish on Planet Earth.
No Irish heritage but Ireland is my chosen Home. All the best from the beloved Ireland.
How sad for you
@@jimwalsh8520 sad for you responding to a year old comment🤣
@@aspolleen452 Not half as sad as someone who is not irish and claiming to be
@@jimwalsh8520 he didn’t claim to be Irish. He said he lives in Ireland.
@@jimwalsh8520 in fact he specifically said that he doesn’t have Irish heritage.
There are only 2 types of people on this planet : the Irish and those who want to be Irish 🍀
Difference between Irish funeral and Irish wedding.........1 less drunk
:D
Unoriganal
Annie S. no not really
Good example
51 dislikes from the Brits
And other people who were unfortunate enough not to have Irish blood!😆 happy saint Patrick's day my fellow irishman!
How do you know they are Brits.
At the moment Ireland is invaded by all sorts of 3rd world creatures, do you not think it's them who gave the thumbs down.
All of them are playing the victims of racism and hate crimes against them.
And one from Canada!
mickser101
And one triggered Mexican in the comment section.
@@tikus-sq4xi You mean like the Mexicans who took in all those Irish who were drafted and mistreated by Americans ( yes probably British BTW ).
You brought crime and Typhoid Fever with you. Thanks for Aryan Brotherhood ( yes Irish actually not Germans. ) Irish Americans BTW the largest white ethnic group in our jails and prisons followed by drum roll PLZ....Italians!!!, Whitey Bulger, NY City dirt bag mayors Jimmy Walker in the 1930's and Tammany Hall ( William Tweed ) in late 19th century NYC politics.
I think that the ban on marching in Ireland by Britain may have had something to do with why it started in america
There's currently 41 million people in the US with Irish ancestry. ☘️☘️☘️☘️
who are trump supporters and hate hispanics.....just saying cuz itz tru.
@@richardalvarado-ik9br
More Irish in America than in Ireland and no one complains but they complain about all the indigenous peoples in California😕
@@angelicsoulz true.....just like NZ & Australia. I don't think any anthropologist would say Anglo people come from those two countries. GOOD TAKE BRO. Just as Aborigines don't come from the Isles in Western Europe.
richard alvarado pretty sure some actually don’t support trump. 😂
@@stephenmurphy2212 If i was to be stupid enough to go to attend a St Paddy's Day celebration especially in South Boston, North Chicago or Detroit i'd get the shit beat outta me even if i kept a low profile. like a hyena accidentally wandering into a pride of lions.
Long story short the whole world says that they are part Irish and want an excuse to drink.
agree 100% lol
I'm from East China. There isn't any hiding I'm not Irish.
@J OneLife indentured servants
I’m half Irish English but I’ve lived in Ireland all my life so lol and if you want to know, I can agree that st Patrick’s day is an excuse for all the adults to get drunk
Happy St Patrick's Day 🇮🇪 😊 My first since I happened upon a X2 Granny Higgins, some Kearns and my Irish roots 😂
There are 70m people on Earth with irish blood, and i love all of them!
Im part Irish and may explain why I love the taste of beer and I've seen many fairies... Hands down no lie
@@zippitydodaday6037
Did you see the fairies while drunk?
@@xcurrentbreeze6626
F off with your stupidity to ask me such a thing
In a few more hours, they're gonna love you too!
@@zippitydodaday6037 Yep, can confirm. I'm Irish and I see leprechauns when I smoke crack. True story.
I swear we’re all Irish, we literally spread all around the globe.
I'm not
@@LydiaXavier321 , commiserations
Totally Agree.🙌🙌
@@LydiaXavier321 Whatevs.
The Irish brand went global because we produce the best food in the world. People want more and more of Irish products.
like what kind of food .
BM SuperSonic with your government? Ahhahahahahahhahahahahahhaha
In 1846 we fought for Mexico in a losing cause, and 50 of our men were hung by the Yankees, while many were hot-branded the letter D onto the face, to mark them as "Deserters".
Que Vivan Los San Patricios!
why many of them don't like us. your a fool to partake in this tradition that nowadays has many who would kill us like flies. alcoholism's bad for you anyway.
richard alvarado this Spaniard speaks better English than you. Who the fuck are you to dictate what people say, do or celebrate?Fuck off you twat
richard alvarado
Leave Mexico and its tequila industry alone you bully.
@Taiwanlight The CIA doesn't want a good Spanish speaking Canada or Netherlands in Latin America.....that's why they install corrupt banana republic dictators down there who are in Pablo Escobar or El Chapo Guzman's payroll.
Happy St. Patricks day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to you too
Greetings from Western New York
Ah home to the Great Lake lowlands! Greetings from Southern Minnesota!
The lovely English-accented voice makes no mention of why the Irish were forced to migrate around the world. 🤔
Yes she did, the Irish were starving when their main crop, potatoes failed from the blight.
Why should I? My ancestors went to England though I do concede that they would have gone to America if they had the fare.
"no mention of why the Irish were forced to migrate"
She does mention it, but probably takes her account from English history books-she calls it a "famine" instead of the genocide it was.
My English friends were amazed and shocked when I showed them how Ireland had plenty of food at the time the potato failed, but the English continued exporting the rest while starving 1M+ of the native population to death and forcing another 1M+ to emigrate.
There's never been a mention of this in English secondary school history books, altho it is apparently acknowledged in University-level history. Same can be said about Churchill's 1943 Bengal genocide, and countless others.
Anyone with doubts who wants to do quick research, I suggest checking out Sir Charles Trevelyan.
Silver Solver victim card
@@baileynewton8463 When the fuck did he mention the English people you absolute fucking cretin.
People with Irish heritage are amongst the nicest people ever
Thanks my man 😄🙏🏽
Except for bar fights in Ireland.
X for doubt
@@yixnorb5971 😂 you should visit England
Unless you bring up Northern Ireland then they bomb places and kill people
It's a great and fun celebration.
No mention of Irish whiskey?
Why is the image of partitioned Ireland used? Ireland wasn't partitioned during the famine, this is just more British propaganda.
What isn't
Because alcohol
It gets to me way too easily to enjoy it
Check out the corrs wit bono,” When the stars go blue”....!
I love St Patty’s Day
mhffc
I beg to differ, I grew up with a bunch of Italians and Irish and not once did they ever complain about St Patty’s day. NYC has a monstrous parade that Irish people participate in. People from Ireland come to NY to celebrate the day. So what are you talking about.
What are you saying there’s a group of people you know that hate that day, because they definitely don’t speak for them all.
mhffc
I’m not debating who’s more Irish numb nuts, You just don’t know how to communicate.
mhffc
WOW! This is what upsets you in life, so much to the point you wanna make an argument about it.This entire thread is nothing but petty nonsense. It’s like when people miss use pronouns, nouns, verbs or misspelling who gives a shit. The intent of my initial comment wasn’t meant to be trolling nor malicious in any way. I made what was meant to be a pleasant comment for a day of celebrating and yet I was met with a person who is, angry, difficult and bitter.
My interpretation of this entire exchange informs me that you are a difficult person and horrible at decision making. This is TH-cam, I could careless on what your preferences is.
mhffc
Hahahaha the only touchy person is your dumb ass. Complaining about preferences, it should be spelled this way rather this way. And you didn’t even convey in your first contact.
I’m touchy, you’re the one complaining through out this entire thread. Pppfff, I would have never commented on the spelling of a social media comment. You better look in the mirror.
And for the future maybe you shouldn’t insult the main commenter, if all you’re trying to do is educate people. You don’t sound humble in the slightest more so a spoiled little brat who doesn’t like comment he or she came across. That’s what you sound like
@@asanti3748 hes right In ireland we hate when people say it in talking about proper irish not people who are 2% irish and live in America
Ay kiss me I’m Irish ☘️
78 BRITISH DISLIKED...🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪
Sam C are the yanks Americans I'm Irish
Happy St Patrick's day everyone
Same to you my friend 😀
St. Patricks weekend passed me by, just finished my 4 nights shifts, fit for bed,enjoy the rest of bank holiday here in Ireland☘☘🇮🇪
Notably, the first parade (1917) was over half a century after the 1840s famine. Many Irish had already moved across the Midwest and Great Plains. Those still on the seaboard had already established themselves in both enclaves and local government. Assimilation, or more accurately cultural diffusion since Irish culture heavily influenced the US as well, takes time.
The first recorded St. Patrick's day parade in history actually took place in New York City on March 17th, 1762, over half a century BEFORE the 1840's famine. Read more and pay attention more!
@@colors6692 I completely forgot this comment and I have no longer have any idea what the source is for the date I gave
Why do you show a modern day map of North and South Ireland @ 0.42 when you talk of emigration? Emigration happened way back when the entire land of Ireland was a single country governed by Great Britain. Emigration was also a consequence of how they governed the country through religious and political suppression and a landlord system of induced poverty, principally by British landlords.
Thanks dear The Economist for shot history of this celebrate !
Happy St. Patrick's Day from Ireland
If you ain't Irish, you are today
I’m 100% Irish everyday 🙌🇮🇪🙌
My birthday is always lit because of this awesome celebration day xD
i made my first artworks for saint patricks day for an print on demand site. it's very much commercialized.
and why? well... drinking and red haired gnomes aren't controversial and pretty universally liked.
Gnomes!? How insulting!
@@caomh6168 ikr. But lepergrouns is too hard to spell.
@@jjc5475 leprechauns...dear God have mercy on your spelling
“St Patrick’s Day as we know it was invented in America”. Only a British magazine could come up with this cynical tripe. St Patrick’s Day has been a religious and secular day of celebration among the Irish for centuries. Whether the our Irish contingent in the US added marching bands to it is irrelevant- the feast day of St Patrick AND the communal celebrations are much much older than the United States. I get that the Economist was just trying to put an economic history spin on things, but this is a very poor advertisement for its journalism. Which in this case is third rate at best.
Simple. So they could drink. Do you know anyone that celebrates St. Patricks Day if they dont drink?
Me, but I have cirrhosis.
It’s amateur hour.....
@Jerome Lund Yeah, there are masses for observant Catholics.
This might be my first St. Patrick's Day that I don't drink and I'm Irish.
Could also be.... We're just awesome!!
Because Irish people are class
I'd know, I am Irish
Happy saint Patrick's day 💓
Amazing to think the first St patricks day parade was held in America in 1762 by irishmen in the British army ,the first in ireland in 1902 in Waterford.
No not in the british army
It was spanisb controlled california
Also your profile says enough sectarian scumbag
It went global because of the Irish diaspora romanticising Ireland and capitalising from it. Nothing you see on St Patrick's Day is genuine Irish culture, St Patrick's Day is originally a religious holiday to celebrate Catholicism spreading to Ireland.
Scots-Irish soldiers. The original celebrants were Protestant Scots-Irish who would go on to play a great role in the American Revolution. At this time, Catholic Irish were mostly indentured servants who were prohibited from any cultural expression including their religion. ,
Ther border between north and south in Ireland didnt exist till 1921. Your graphic has a border in place when then genocide of the Irish happened between 1845 to 1849. That period was called a famine yet british rulers removed tons of food from the island of Ireland.
I think The Irish name "An Ghorta Mór" is better it means " the great hunger" because it was a purposeful mass starvation not a lack of food in the country
It’s one country no need to blank the north out Ahah
Why? Why not?
2023!
It's a success because everyone is very welcome to join in, literally everyone can be Irish for the Day. The Irish people welcome everyone, unless you're a Brexit voter.
if they had the north back i'm fairly sure they couldnt care less about brexit
@@wackey2k10 TRUE!
Coca Cola we don't welcome u yanks cultre stealing bastards
Unfortunately St.Patrick's Day just ends up re-enforcing Irish sterotypes & is mobbed by plastic paddies these days😓
except irish don't give a fuck about "stereotypes"
@@Submersed24 are you Irish?
@@bbhybris yeah
@Dale Gribble I disagree with that
@Dale Gribble what a shame you can't just converse in TH-cam comments anymore
Most ppl just here for booze!
St Patrick's originally came from Wales. He move to Ireland for a pint of Guinness.
Lol
The Irish are Absolutely Amazing I mean c’mon
A gay conservative Prime Minister
Virtually no homelessness and unemployment
Booming businesses
Fantastic business market
Strong voice in the EU
Beautiful landscapes
Strong vibrant culture
Far more inclusive and respectful than twenty, thirty years ago
I mean frankly who wouldn’t be extremely proud to be Irish right now.
Im Irish and I love Saint Patrick's Day (like if you are Irish 😁)
Hail Glorious Saints And Martyrs Of Éireann.☘✝️🇮🇪
There's two kinds of people in this world. - The "Irish and "Those that want to be"
"Sainte" - "Good Health" - "Happy Saint Patrick's Day."
Why did it go global?
Great excuse to get absolutely shit faced.
Easiest quiz I've ever taken.
St.Patrick's Day is only an official holiday in Ireland and Montserrat.
All the other places it's unofficial, Americans do their marching at the weekend.
If you fly the Irish tricolour the wrong way round on the flagpole you have the flag of Côte d'Ivoire.
2 years with no Saint Patrick’s day parades and celebrations :(
Dont be a drag just be a queen.
😁😁😁 Vogue, and don't forget the moves. 😁😁😁😁
I ran over a drag queen two years ago and killed it and I only got 30 days probation
People like to get drunk in every occasion and also it is good for the economy too!!
Because everyone likes a wee sip of da pure
86 dislikes from the British
Notice that those saying "the Irish don't mind the stereotypes!" are definitely not Irish 🙄
I am Irish and we don't care. It's part of our humor. We make fun of people based on strotypes and expect the same back. We kind of like dark humor.
@@danny148mb I guess some Irish do and some don't
@@bbhybris well look at it this way, if an American called me a drunken leprechaun I would call them a cheeseburger swilling brain dead lard arse. You see unlike the leprechaun (a mythical creature that doesn't and never existed) the Americans are fat, love cheeseburgers and are stupid. 😘
I want to know what's it like to date an Irish guy 🤔 they look so cute💙
@G C 😊😊
Do you want my brother? 😂
@@abiolalafoucade9317 im also willing to hand over my boyf as hes really annoying me atm
@@danielinnicg2114 😊😊😊
People like to drink... same reason people celebrate Cinco de Mayo
th-cam.com/video/Pypaa7SVMs4/w-d-xo.html IRISH COMMUNIST PARTY 1919 just imagine if Eire had been commie!!! LIMMERICK SOVIETS
Shame that you see that the North of Ireland is cut off, St Patrick came to the island of ireland.
@Straight White British Protestant what has this to do with St Patrick's day
Ireland had not joined it was taken from England, the only future of this island for it go back to how it was before anything from England
All counties in the world have different in their country this was the same for ireland, what you speak is to make a ireland british which is so stupid, it is like telling the French people that they are German. Even before the English came to Ireland and may not have been united (As I said like all other countries, just look at the English) they were all irish people. THE END
@Straight White British Protestant now I know you talk a load of shit, Ireland was controlled by the England, the focht against it so the people were not happy,so it was not united. Let's get real the island of ireland will be a real united after so many years like the people in Germany in 1990 (it was split for not many years) but still united as one country. This is my last message to you. Beabnacht mhaith Agus dea-luck. Éire go Deo.
Um... we don’t do St.Patrick’s day in Japan
Yeah that sounds a bit like a stretch give its based on a Catholic saint from the other side of the world
Well you do now, at least in Tokyo, I hear.
Don't watch the video..... Answer, Everyone Loves Getting Drunk and fuck'n Partying!!! See, simple!
Today As You All Become Irish
For The Day
Please Take Note
St Patrick Was Welsh Not Irish
Wales Was Part Of Britain
Patrick Was Kidnapped
Taken To Ireland By Raiders
Patrick Escaped Ireland
Became An Educated Christian
Not A Roman Catholic
He Returned To Ireland
Spread Christianity
Banished Snakes
Died Became St Patrick
Patron Saint Of All Ireland
The Republic Of Ireland Didn't Exist In Patrick's Time
Ulster The Province Did
He Lived In Ulster
And Died In Ulster
Is Buried In Ulster
The Flag Of St Patrick Is A
Red Diagonal Cross
On White Background
It Is Incorporated In
The Union Flag Of The UK
The Irish Tricolour Is Not
The Flag Of St Patrick
It Is The Flag Of
The Irish Republic
So As You All Drink Guinness Today Remember The Family Behind Guinness Were Proud Unionists Against The Creation Of The Irish Free State
And Helped Fund The UVF Bring Weapons To Ulster To Defeat Home Rule
And Guinness Sacked Those Involved In The Nationalist Republican Movement Involved In Easter Rising
The Tricolour With Its Green White And Orange Was Adopted By Republicans Who Have Murdered Thousands Of British People Over The Last Century
So Enjoy Your Day Drinking Unionist Guinness
And Draped In A Flag Nothing To Do With St Patrick
HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY
And it has been established the first Patrick's day parade was in the Caribbean where Cromwell sent Irish captives as slaves in the 1600s . Are you looking to inform people or just trying to cash in on your name and Patricks day.
Why didn't you simply say the famine? By saying the Irish famine you take attention away from Btitish Rule. The famine was overseen by the wealthiest nation in the world.
Sorry, Countries religions paintings trees flowers and human beings cannot be brands, There may be a Brand Ireland on planet economicus but not on planet earth, This logical fallacy is known as the King Midas fallacy
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW ZEALAND THE GUY WHO DID THIS HEINOUS ACT WAS A TRUMP SUPPORTER AND IN FAVOR OF TRUMP'S BORDER WALL.....STAND DOWN AND STAY DRY TODAY. AND DON'T PARTAKE IN A TRADITION OF A PEOPLE WHO WOULD KILL US.
“It’s Ministers are travelling around the world to 50 different nations”. Feel free to keep them.
We have a sense of humor...........
What a myopic perpective. How could you fail to mention the Christian Diaspora? Or more specifically, Saint Patrick himself? What a shame, Economist.
Shut up black go back to filthy India
Enrique Diazhmiron
🍀Apparently this Indian man is more 🍀 than you. He is absolutely right!!! ✝️🍀🍻🍺 ...The National Globalist trying to rewrite history!!! Smh
Nishant Varghese
🍀 you are absolutely right! 🍀 cheers 🍻✝️🍀
In a two minute video, it pays to quickly mention the origins and then skip to modern times. It would have been nice if they mentioned how the groundwork was lain in all these countries for the idea of a saint's day, but it was exported from an economic sense as a marketed "drinking holiday," and since this is The Economist that's the angle they took.
I kind of hate it too, but a lot of things that reach into the humanities just take one view and hope someone else picks up the other details.
comicconcarne
The globalists are trying to get rid of Christianity. That is there goal. A lot of Christians like to drink beer 🍀🍺
Happy St Patick's Day.
He is a Saint in my Church, that's why I celebrate it.
would st patrick be in favor of separating toddlers from their mums? like sean hannity, bill o'reilly and laura ingraham are?.....all avowed irish catholics btw
@@richardalvarado-ik9br No, Catholic. He would probably be against it, the same way he would be against Pelosi and Biden because of their support for abortion.
@@MrDavicovic Thank you!😀
@@MrDavicovic abortion isn't a race issue.
@@richardalvarado-ik9br I thought we were talking about moral issues 🤔
There is an irish pub in Jamaica
Great video but China on the map is completely messed up :)
So I fought for 800 years to be a top international brand.
What’s a Nation Brand?
Patrick was possibly Patricia.
Dont tell anyone.
It's amazing how this completely ignores what St. Patrick's Day actually is. It is the feast day of the great Christian saint and evangelist Saint Patrick; it is first and originally liturgical day of celebration.
My American friends are shocked to discover that in my small village in the West of Ireland we begin the day BY GOING TO MASS! And the parade is largely children walking down and then up the one road in the center of town. We are right by Croagh Patrick. Also - he was Roman, making him Italian not Irish. So many questions. But it's nice that everyone in the world is Irish for one day. I can't think of another culture that would be so globally popular. The world could use a day of craic (Irish for fun).
1. pple like drinking, 2. capitalism
and some people like Catholicism & right wing nationalism too.....IRELAND & BAVARIA GERMANY........
09:11 am hours Pacific Standard Time on Saturday, 16 March 2019 by the financially insolvent and financially insecure u.S. military veteran Max Rafael Waller
Woohoo ireland!
Conor McGregor!
Wouldn't this be culture appropriation 😁😁 Liberals should be going nut's....... Happy Saint Patrick's Day.......Respect from Ireland. 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Jayus man we are everywhere , something I didn't know.
Yeah it's all because the alcohol that's the only reason sky like Cinco de Mayo the reason that celebrated in the United States is because of his drinking holiday
Your woman did some research
Hahaha cmon like back in the 80s yall use to devastate yer opposition carreer super wicked cmon lets do it like that lol like in the good ol days hahaha
Good morning Green! Producers make their own food.Have a nice sunny day.
Yup cause when you ask black folk at the bar decked out in green they haven't got a clue nor does anyone else it's a reason to drink
there are 8500 irish pubs in ireland alone.... or at least there were before the pandemic!
Fun fact only in modern times it became ok to drink it was a Holly holiday all pubs were closed on the day.
Easy. Alcohol sales is why it went global.
Yes. Thank you! Some one gets it. People have made holidays an industry. Look how many people Black Friday shop at dinner time instead of being THANKFUL and spending it with their family. Why be thankful when you can be greedy.
Glasgow Celtic are big on the st Patrick's day and there is an old firm derby on Sunday .
Reason why it's because Irish people moved to different countrys