You live in NYC and still don't get it ...
Posted on 03/05/2017 5:31:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump will carry out the “full Irish” list of engagements this St.Patrick’s season despite concerns to the contrary, IrishCentral.com has learned.
He will have a full schedule of events on Thursday, March 16 at the White House. In addition, Vice President Pence will be the honoree at the American Ireland Fund dinner on March 15 in D.C.
Fears that the new president would cut back on the traditional Irish day in the White House and Capitol Hill – or even cancel them – have been quashed after diligent work by the Irish Embassy and key Irish Americans in the new administration.
Ambassador Anne Anderson and Mick Mulvaney, head of the Office of Management and Budget, were among the prime movers.
Sources point out that Trump is no stranger to Ireland and has always spoken well of the country and its people. His golf resort at Doonbeg in County Clare employs 200 people.
Trump will now attend the Speaker's Lunch hosted by Speaker Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill. Taoiseach Enda Kenny, on his farewell trip to America as taoiseach, will also attend the Speaker's Lunch.
Following that will be the annual shamrock ceremony at the White House, a tradition dating back to 1947 when President Truman was in office, where the Irish leader presents a bowl of shamrocks to the president.
Then there will be an evening reception at the White House from 5-7 pm where up to 200 Irish Americans will be invited – traditionally the hottest ticket in the Irish American social calendar.
Following the event, the Irish government will host a special reception for Irish American leaders at the nearby Willard Hotel which will also be attended by the taoiseach.
Already calls have gone out for Irish Americans to boycott the event because of Trump’s immigration policy. The campaign has been led by former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley.
“The enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty,” said O’Malley in an email statement.
“So please, ‘in the name of God and of the dead generations from which Ireland receives her old tradition of nationhood,’ boycott Trump's St. Patrick's Day gathering at the White House on Thursday, March 16.”
Had t’look it up ... backATcha’
He still won’t drink.
Cultural appropriation!
Boycott - always boycott from these ingrates. The Irish have always been treated well by America - but still they bitch and complain.
Enjoy! No more muzzie “celebrations” in the White House.
Hardly, but the Irish assimilated in the true immigrant traditional and have earned their place as an integral part of America.
St. Patricks Day is a big drinking day in the US of A (Butte, MT - 90 miles East of me - has a HUGE celebration).
It is, however, a Holy Day in Ireland and it’s NOT a party.
I didn’t think St. Pat was a big day in Ireland.
Was always under the impression it was an American thing.
Hardly? Millions taken into the country including my own family to escape famine? And how did they pay that back, eh? Draft riots and other anti-social behavior that made them the inner-city blacks of their day. Even today, their own exchange students trash rented apartments around the country - California in particular - forcing their own government to condemn their drunken behavior.
Please.
As James Cagney once said when asked to define the Irish: “Malice,” was his reply.
And the one comment after this article was full of bile towards Trump. Completely unsurprising.
I have reported your filthy abuse toward me - in cowardly private fashion - the owner of this site. You didn’t even have the courage to write openly on this forum.
better to paint the White House green than rainbow for the fay-gets
DJT would do well to emulate St. Pat and drive the snakes out of the gubermint!
The cultural Marxists want you to believe that St Patrick’s Day is nothing in Ireland, similar to the way that there are is no Chop Suey or fortune cookies in China.
In fact the only holidays they want you not to suspect are the ones that they make up out of whole cloth, like Kwanzaa (started by a felon who was once deemed clinically insane).
The truth is the only made up, American art is the emphasis on heavy drinking, counter-intuitively.
In Ireland the religious components of st. Patrick’s Day are fully retained, not torn out by commies.
Yeah I heard that it wasn’t a party holiday there.
Not exactly.
Have you ever thought why those ads read like that? Or do you buy that we’ve always been an evil, racist country?
And, by the way, plenty of Irish-Catholics were employed in American houses. My great-grandmother was a housekeeper for a family in NYC. Literature of the late 19th century - read the plays of Eugene O’Neill - always featured Irish servants. Lizzie Borden’s beloved Irish-Catholic maid testified at her trail. But there was a huge underclass that plagued New York City and Boston. I don’t know if it is ignorance or just muleheadedness that make modern Irish-Americans so defensive on this subject.
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