I didn't know this, plus it's even in Russia, Japan and South Korean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day
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Montserrat
The tiny island of Montserrat, known as "Emerald Island of the Caribbean" because of its founding by Irish refugees from Saint Kitts and Nevis, is the only place in the world apart from Ireland and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador where St Patrick's Day is a public holiday. The holiday also commemorates a failed slave uprising that occurred on 17 March 1768
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