If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

[Glamrock]

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Of course.

I have never felt the need to wear anything green on St Patrick's day. Although I do have green eyes, so that should be sufficient.

[Glamrock]

2. Of course there's no need!

If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Yep. I recall the first time I was aware of St. Patrick's Day.

I was in kindergarten in a Catholic school. What I noticed most was that everyone wanted to be Irish, and there was never a holiday where everyone wanted to be some other ethnicity.

All four grandparents came from Ireland, and all of my aunts and uncles married other Irish Americans. When I was a little girl the elderly aunts and uncles would shake their head at me and say, "She has the map of Ireland on her face." The first time I went to Ireland in 1972, every single person I saw looked just like my brothers and sisters and cousins.

[Leith]

5. I Know What You Mean!

At Shannon Airport, my mother sent me to the lobby with the luggage while she returned the rental car. It was very crowded and I thought I saw my mother about 5 times and waved until I realized it wasn't her. She finally had to find me.

It was like being in a warehouse full of clones.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. LOL! A warehouse full of clones!

I hadn't thought of it that way, but . . . .

My second trip to Ireland was in 1989, a family trip. My mother, five of us six kids, two spouses, five grandchildren, plus a cousin on Mom's side of the family and her husband. Is it redundant to say he was another Irish American?

On that trip, the challenge was when we'd split up to do different things, and now wanted to rendezvous. EVERYONE looked just like my brothers and my sisters and my cousins! It was both funny and frustrating.

A side note. On that first trip I was staying in a B&B in Dublin. A man also staying there was a commercial traveller (a businessman who owned several movie theaters somewhere else in the country) and one day he took me downtown to the GPO and told me the story of the 1916 Easter uprising. I could have sworn it had happened only a few years earlier, so vivid and immediate was his account of what happened. In reality it had been more than fifty years earlier.

[BootinUp]

3. I got a little. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Me!

Not 100%, but my paternal great grandparents both came from that beautiful country, County Mayo and County Kilkenny!