St. Patrick\u2019s Day has become a huge day for celebrating here in the United States. But why?<\/p>\n
In an interview with WalletHub<\/a>, Associate Chair and Social Sciences Senior Lecturer John Mackey<\/a> takes a closer look at this question and provides some historical context as to how St.Patricks Day came to be such a huge celebration.<\/p>\n For starters, Mackey talks about how<\/a> St. Patrick\u2019s Day is \u201ca story of immigration, social exclusion, and identity.\u201d Irish-American identity developed in opposition to an Anglo-Protestant American establishment, and has grown ever since. Now we are accustomed to huge celebrations of Irish pride, but it was not always like that, especially given the anti-Irish intolerance of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n Last year Wallethub<\/a> interviewed Master Lecturer of Rhetoric Regina Hansen<\/a> for a similar story on Halloween. Halloween is a day for the two \u201cc\u2019s:\u201d costumes, and candy. \u00a0Hansen takes a closer look at the do\u2019s and don’ts for how to stay safe and make the most out of your holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. Patrick\u2019s Day has become a huge day for celebrating here in the United States. But why? In an interview with WalletHub, Associate Chair and Social Sciences Senior Lecturer John Mackey takes a closer look at this question and provides some historical context as to how St.Patricks Day came to be such a huge celebration. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4204,334,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions\/36159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}