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International Brendan Gleeson Day
International Brendan Gleeson Day is an annual celebration of the actor Brendan Gleeson. Celebrated on the 29th March (the actor's birthday), 2012 will mark its 57th year. Whilst many have called for it to be made an official holiday, IBGN has never received such approval from the appropriate authorities.

Origins
The origins of IBGD are mainly unclear, though some feel that the birth of such an icon simply created a celebration of its own accord. Others cite the creation of it to a young Gleeson fan, passionate about the success and recognition of the day. It is the popular belief, however that International Brendan Gleeson Day was always a day for celebration, and that the universe was simply waiting for Pat Gleeson to give birth to him.

History
The road toward a widely accepted IBGD has not been a easy one. It has been paved with resistance and discrimination. However with the 1986 attempt of an "anti-IBGD" bill, brought forward by Thatcher, being met with such hesitance and eventual rejection via referendum the public began to warm towards the day.

Support for IBGD rose steadily for 13 years, until the 1999 International Brendan Gleeson Day Fish Massacre, where more than 10 fish were killed as a sacrifice to the actor. It was later discovered that Gleeson was not actually in favour of the killings and the ritual has never been repeated since. The route of the acts is still mostly unknown, though many have attributed it to the usage of one of the actor's socks, a known hallucinogen, as a sieve for making celebratory cheese.

Traditional Celebrations
The nature of IBGD celebrations has changed vastly over its existence. Originally, fans of the day would rise out of their chairs, open the nearest window and throw computer mice, with a picture Gleeson's face attached to it, outside.

This ritual was widely abandoned, after a group of protesters from the RSPCA caused a large scale riot in London. Their opinion was that the mice may be hurt from the fall. Governments would later report the coo as "The Student Riots", as it was felt that no-one would believe the actual reason behind the event.

Today, fans of IBGD collectively hold up specially commissioned pictures of the actor's face, in front of theirs. The hope is that one day, Gleeson will select a partaker to be his mate, and that the genetic code of their offspring would be 98.6% Gleeson.