Here's to you, here's to me, the best of friends we'll always be.
But if we ever disagree, forget you! Here's to me!

Here's to it and from it and to it again,
If I never get to it to do it again.

15) Erin Go Bragh means:

Ireland Forever
Ireland This Day
Ireland is the World

Answers

1) St. Patrick wasn't always a Christian. Before his conversion he was a Pagan.

2) The first St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City was held in 1766.

3) Up until the mid-nineteenth century, most Irish immigrants in America were members of the Protestant middle class.

4) Close to a million Catholic Irish poured into America as a result of the Great Potato Famine.

5) The Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in 1845.

6) The American Protestant majority despised the Irish immigrants for their religious beliefs and funny accents. They (the Irish immigrants) had trouble finding even menial labor. When they took to city streets on St. Patrick's Day to celebrate their heritage, newspapers portrayed them as monkeys.

7) Of its 300+ million people, 34.7 million in the United States claim an Irish ancestry. This is more than eight times the population of Ireland itself (4.2 million).

8) The legend of St. Patrick driving snakes from Ireland is false. The story was a metaphor for the eradication of pagan ideology from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity.

9) St. Patrick was born in Britain.

10) Daniel Day-Lewis is not Irish.

11) March 17, 461 was a significant day in the life of St. Patrick because it was the day he died.

12) Contrary to Irish Legend, Walt Disney's 1959 film, Darby O'Gill & the Little People, portrayed leprechauns as cheerful and friendly. According to Irish Legend, leprechauns were cranky souls who were responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies.

13) Many Irish began to wear the shamrock as a symbol of their pride in their heritage and their displeasure with English rule.

14) This drinking toast is not attributed to the Irish:

Here's to it and from it and to it again,
If I never get to it to do it again.

15) Erin Go Bragh means Ireland Forever.