Counting Out The Green On St. Patrick’s Day
PYMNTS
MARCH 17, 2018
Irish Americans outnumber the Irish of Ireland by quite a lot. There are 4.7 million people in Ireland and about 33 million Americans who claim Irish descent. It should come as no surprise, then, that the celebration of the quintessentially Irish holiday — St. Patrick’s Day — tends to run bigger, wilder and more raucous on this side of the pond. After all, here in Boston, our local Irish population is eight times the size of the motherland’s, and Americans of every ethnic background get their gr
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