Just one time I encountered something done as observance of St. Patricks day that I found truly revolting, and I would have thought it would have disgusted anyone with a sense of Irish, particularly Irish-Anerican culture. 25 years ago I went down to State Street for the parade there, my one and only time. By the time the parade started, speakers all along the street were broadcasting something to the tune I know as "Christmas in Killarney", which went "The Irish in Chicago. After that, they played "The Irish in Chicago". Then they played, "The Irish in Chicago", followed by "The Irish in Chicago". They followed that with several rousing repetitions of "The Irish in Chicago". In a word, nothing else, for the entire duration of the parade. I never thought of blaming the Irish community for that; it may have been one single embicile in the wrong position, with no taste or intelligence, who may not even have suspected that there was a vast "canon" of appropriate music for the occasion.