However, it's a day about booze and not much more.

Martin, you're buying the old bigotted Victorian English spin (see Punch magazine caricatures), adopted by naive Americans, on activity that has little to do with the Irish observation of the day. Here's a book review that can probably shed some light on this for you, since you likely won't take my word for it.

Personally, I don't think Afro-americans had any holidays stripped from them, they just didn't have any. And if they did, it's their fault that they have not been able to keep their own culture intact over the generations.

I bet you buy into the myth that there was no advanced culture or scholarship on the African continent either, eh?

You're a bigger fool than usual today. And as usual, you're wasting people's time.

SRS