It does if you're not a Guinness drinker.The marketing people at Guinness have pulled a blinder with St Patrick’s Day.
Does it mean anything other than big green hats and pints of the black stuff?
Isn’t it ironic that politicians (mainly Tory) are attempting to make a big deal of immigration when England has a huge history of it.I think practically everyone from Teesside (Middlesbrough especially)
Has grandparents, or great grandparent x how many form Ireland.
So I raise a half pint of Guinness to my great great Grandfather who came to Middlesbrough to work in the steel works.
Correct mate.Isn’t it ironic that politicians (mainly Tory) are attempting to make a big deal of immigration when England has a huge history of it.
F*ck it I’m joining in as well. Pint at Newcastle Central Station it is.I've sadly got no Irish heritage at all, but I'll still be having a few pints of Guinness today anyway.
It's a nice thing to celebrate the culture of a country, even if it's being commercially driven.
Teesside was second highest for Irish immigration behind Liverpool.The Irish story: Teesside's activists in the 1870s
Julia Mazza writes about the role of Teesside in Irish Independencenortheastbylines.co.uk
He was a missionarySt Patrick was allegedly Welsh, Scottish or English
And St George was Greek.St Patrick was allegedly Welsh, Scottish or English
Turkish wasn’t it?And St George was Greek.