I don't like the beer drinking festivities, but I do enjoy seeing all the green people wear! I went to St. Patrick's School when I was younger, and it was one of the few days we didn't have to wear our uniform (but you had to wear something green, of course)! One year we performed "Finnian's Rainbow" (or a grade school version thereof), and one of our Irish nuns, dear ol' Sister Margaret danced a jig for all to see! What sweet and pleasant memories!
God bless you Sister Margaret, wherever you are!!
It's the debauchery that I don't think the dear saint would have approved of.
But the love of the people he gave up so much for, he appreciates that, I suspect!