Not as boozy as Ireland's St Patrick's Day nor as much fun as Scotland's St Andrew's Day the English this Friday will celebrate the annual feast of their patron saint St George.
For the past 30 years or so the English national day has been hijacked by embarrassingly jingoistic types who have advocated right-wing causes and fought against immigration.
But with the advent of a new Scottish Parliament and a separate elected assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland some in England are beginning to re-examine their own identity and hope the annual celebration will gain a new significance.
On Thursday the Royal Society of St George plans to launch a campaign to make April 23 an annual national holiday for the 40 or so million people in the British Isles who are English.
The group claims to have quadrupled its membership over the last year as more people decide to celebrate their Englishness stirred by a sense they are being left out by the move towards devolution.
John Bailey, the society's secretary, said many people in England feel they are being ignored by the central government which is putting increasing energies into helping to develop the new assemblies in Scotland and Wales to be elected on May 6. The people of England are beginning to question the scale of subsidies paid by the national government to support the flagging economies in Wales and Scotland, the society believes.