IRELAND Customs and Traditions

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IRELANDCustoms and Traditions

• Author Gerda Vares

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St. Patricks day

• St. Patricks childhood
• His calling
• Mission in Ireland
• St. Patricks day
• How people celebrate this day

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Halloween

• One story about Halloween
• The practise of dressing
• The Jack-o-lantern custom
• Where did it grow out of

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Wedding traditions

• Irish supertitions
• Selecting the date
• Throwing the bouquet
• Something old, new, borrowed and blue.
• The wedding veil
• Carrying the bride over the threshold
• Third finger, left hand.
• Bridesmaids, bestman
• Handfasting
• First on the dance floor
• Leap year proposals
• Throwing of rice or confetti

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Christmas

• Cleaning
• Decorating
• Mistletoe
• Christmas Eve

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Wakes

• Traditional wakes last
• Keening