Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patrick's Day is over. Last night may have passed in a blur of Guinness and green but today's St. Patty's festivities pale next to the alcohol binges of old. Local pub proprietors and bartenders-most from the Emerald Isle and with the accent to prove it-kept their preparations minimal for America's most notorious Irish holiday...
...They all agree that weekend-long festivities are a thing of the past. "Years ago, pubs would be busy from the time they opened up, that's the was the way St. Patrick's day went. But the way it's going now, I think it's changed over the years. Because it's on a Wednesday it's kind of hard to 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...
...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...
...Brogued James's Gate and The Druid report no problems with drunken patrons. "St. Patrick's Day is fun because a good crowd comes in here. People know how to behave themselves and stuff, so we never have any bother or anything. Everybody's just out for a good time," says Patrick Delaney, bartender at The Druid...
...Patrick's Day is over. Last night may have passed in a blur of Guinness and green but today's St. Patty's festivities pale next to the alcohol binges of old. Local pub proprietors and bartenders-most from the Emerald Isle and with the accent to prove it-kept their preparations minimal for America's most notorious Irish holiday...