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The epic Saint Patty's "Luck of the Irish" Pub Crawl began on Saturday and is still in full effect! For a $20 ticket you get drink specials at over 100 Manhattan bars, and a chance to help break the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Pub Crawl. So at least you'll be getting slaughtered for a noble cause.
If a variety of green-colored beverages is what you desire, look no further than the Village Pourhouse. Besides the requisite green beer, you can also sip green martinis and pound green-colored shots. At the uptown location, anyone who recites a limerick gets a green beer for free; downtown the owners have hired a man to dress as a leprechaun to pose for photos and surrender his dignity to the debauched crowd.
A more refined diversion will take place tonight at the Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village, the city's only family home "preserved intact—inside and out—from the 19th century." Bridget Murphy was the Irish cook who worked for the home's original occupants back in 1855; she'll be appearing tonight via wormhole to give visitors "a back-stairs look at the Merchant’s House Museum. Taste food made from 19th-century Irish-American recipes, sample Bridget’s famous ‘green’ tea punch—an old New York recipe—and tour the fourth-floor servant quarters (usually off limits to visitors)." There will be a bagpiper playing traditional Irish music, and, naturally, alcoholic beverages. ($30 for non-members; details here.)