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Christmas in Ireland is the annual festival which marks the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus and its related observances, but also incorporates some pre-Christian customs. These customs range from the traditional food and drink consumed, decorations and rituals, as well as more modern phenomena such as the Christmas day swim and ...
Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig na mBan, lit. 'Women's Christmas'), also known as Old Christmas, Green Christmas, or Twelfth Night, [1] is one of the traditional names among Irish Christians and Amish Christians for 6 January, which is also known more widely as the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated after the conclusion of the twelve days of Christmastide.
Wren Day ( Irish: Lá an Dreoilín ), or Hunt the Wren Day ( Manx: Shelg yn Dreean ), is an Irish and Manx custom on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day. Traditionally, men and boys hunted a wren and placed it on top of a staff decorated with holly, ivy and ribbons, or displayed it in a decorated box on top of a pole.
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
Lá Fhéile Bríde or. Imbolc. First observed in 2023. First Monday of February, or on 1 February if it is a Friday. [ 2][ 3] Co-celebrated with the traditional festival of Imbolc . 17 March. Saint Patrick's Day. Lá Fhéile Pádraig. National day. Became an official public holiday in Ireland in 1903.
The Irish Singles Chart was first published in 1962, and the first artist to top the chart at Christmas was Elvis Presley with "Return to Sender". The following year, Brendan Bowyer became the first Irish artist to claim top spot at Christmas with "No More". 2020 winner Dermot Kennedy (" Giants ") is the first Irish national to achieve the feat ...
Perry Como's Christmas Concert is a 1994 live recording by Perry Como, the last before his death in 2001. Taped at the Point Theatre in Dublin before a live audience of 4,500 which included Irish President Mary Robinson, the concert was also issued on videotape and broadcast in the USA on PBS. [3] Como, looking frail and unwell was suffering ...
S. Samantha Sings Christmas. Silent Night (Celtic Woman album) Songs of Christmas. Sounds of the Season: The Enya Collection.