It is not St Patrick's Day. People in Ireland have not started Patrick's Day celebrations.
Most Irish people do not think highly of Irish americans. A popular nickname for them is "plastic paddy", because they have no real sense of Irish culture but cling on to their ancestry in ways that english, german americans etc do not.
Nobody in Ireland goes this far for Patrick's Day. We have parades in just about every town, we have food stands and lots and lots of drinking, but we don't just throw the colour green everywhere.
A few things from an Irish perspective:
It is not St Patrick's Day. People in Ireland have not started Patrick's Day celebrations.
Most Irish people do not think highly of Irish americans. A popular nickname for them is "plastic paddy", because they have no real sense of Irish culture but cling on to their ancestry in ways that english, german americans etc do not.
Nobody in Ireland goes this far for Patrick's Day. We have parades in just about every town, we have food stands and lots and lots of drinking, but we don't just throw the colour green everywhere.
America is weird. Chicago is weird.
LARPing as your distant ancestors is american culture