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...Byrne implies, Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux...
...Even The Harp may have an Irish band playing for the occasion. Amid this authentically enhanced ambiance, the college set comes to party. "As the night goes on, the crowd gets a little younger," Stolinsky says. "We try to keep them from getting rowdy a much as possible. Everyone thinks they can drink a lot more on that day. A lot of times we have to ask people to leave, but we try not to let it get to that point...
...predict how crowded it's gonna be. I'm sure when people get off work it's gonna pick up," explains Paul Byrne, owner of James's Gate in Jamaica Plain. "It has a lot to do with what day it falls on," says Rembert Stolinsky, dishwasher at The Harp. "Since it falls on a Wednesday, it'll get busy early then die out because people have to go to work the next...
...Byrne implies, Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux...
...Even The Harp may have an Irish band playing for the occasion. Amid this authentically enhanced ambiance, the college set comes to party. "As the night goes on, the crowd gets a little younger," Stolinsky says. "We try to keep them from getting rowdy a much as possible. Everyone thinks they can drink a lot more on that day. A lot of times we have to ask people to leave, but we try not to let it get that point...