An article.

Had to look for something about this gaffe.

My father's family has been here in the US since 1850, Irish American. I don't celebrate St. Patrick's day - from what I can tell the American makers of party favors, cards, bric-a-brac signs and symbols usually tap into the old British Punch magazine characteristics of Irish people and leprechauns as sub-human dwarfs, rather a Gorillas in the Bog approach. I suspect most Americans are clueless about what actually is being celebrated, and what isn't. The symbols today ironically tend to hark back to the old "no Irish need apply" days of the lat 19th and early 20th centuries.

As a non-christian, I'd prefer a look at the old polytheistic days. :)

SRS