I just love St Patrick's Day and the Irish-it seems that sometimes the Scots get a little bit posessive of their heritage, but all it takes to become Irish is a set of shamrock antenna and a generous helping of green beer.
Not to start anything, but my experience has been the reverse. Our local (and now defunct) Celtic Society used to provide the colour party for the front of the local St. Patrick's Day parade, and we usually would get some semi-negative (and anti-Scots) comments from some of the more militant Irish. I remember being asked by one of them why the Scots were part of the Celtic Society, since only the Irish are "Celtic". (They really didn't like it when you would respond that neither was St. Patrick, since he was a Romano-Briton from either Wales or Scotland, take your pick!)

Now, that being said, I now plenty of folks of Irish heritage (many of them here) who are not that way at all. I don't like generalizations, though, and with many different ethnicities, states, provinces, countries, etc. designing their own tartans, I don't think it's fair to paint all Scots with that brush.

Green Beer...to quote Michaeleen Og Flynn in "The Quiet Man", "The Borgias could do better!" :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd