Thanks for reminding me of the wren music. I pulled out my Chieftain's Bells of Dublin music and enjoyed it this morning. May all on the list have blessed holidays and may we all find prosperity in the new year! Theresa > > we have a wreath handed down from my grandmother it is not the > orginalwreath that was replaced every year but the red center candle and > dish is from her we light it on christmas eve > > Christmas in Ireland stretches from Christmas Eve to the Epiphany feast > on '6th of January'. Epiphany is also known as 'Little Christmas' > here. > For Irish people, Christmas is much more a religious festival than > the > tome to have fun. People place lighted red candles on their > windowsills > that are mostly decorated with sprigs of holly so that Mary and > Joseph > looking for shelter may find the way to their homes. Irish wives > bake a > seed cake for each person in the household and make three puddings > for > Christmas day, New Year's Day and the Twelfth Night. > > > > On Christmas Eve, the door is left open for Mary and Joseph and > bread > and milk are left out for them. It is also considered as a symbol > of > hospitality. On 26th of December or St Stephen's Day, people > indulge in > football matches and conduct meetings. Children participate in the > Wren > Boys Procession, in which boys go from home to home carrying a > fake wren > on a stick, singing carols and playing musical instruments like > violins, > accordions, harmonicas and horns. They collect money 'for the > starving > wren', that of course they spend on themselves. Irish children put > out > sacks to receive presents from Santa rather than stockings and > leave > mince pies and a bottle of Guinness for him with the sack. > Margaret > >> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:08:38 -0800 >> From: c_lion@purringfox.com >> To: seamusjames@yahoo.com; Beara-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [BEARA] Seasonal greetings. >> >> I keep lights in wreaths in all front windows but I have no idea why. >> Please tell me. >> Light in a window yes, see ablove >> Jan 6th, yes, and was my mother's birthday as well. The tree never came >> down until the Magi arrived. Very few here know this nor do they know >> the 12 days of Christmas other than the song. >> >> ~~C Sullivan >> >> --- On Sat, 12/13/08, seamus O'More <seamusjames@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> From: seamus O'More <seamusjames@yahoo.com> >> Subject: Re: [BEARA] Seasonal greetings. >> To: beara@rootsweb.com >> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 12:06 PM >> >> Mo chara's >> D.V. means God willing. >> May everyone have a great season full of Gods love. >> Who still lights a red candle inside a holly wreath? >> Or a candle or light in the window? >> Do you still celebrate Jan 6th? >> Traditions taken with us to other parts of the world fades with time. >> What other Christmas tradition's did our Beara ancestors take with them? >> Seamus >> >> --- On Sat, 12/13/08, Riobard O'Dwyer >> <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> wrote: >> >> From: Riobard O'Dwyer <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> >> Subject: [BEARA] Seasonal greetings. >> To: beara@rootsweb.com >> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 3:28 AM >> >> A very, very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to >> all those >> on the Beara List and to all their friends.Times may be a bit tough at >> the >> moment, but they won't always be like that. Keep the spirit up and >> battle >> on. >> This is the first time that Joan & myself will be all on our >> own for Christmas. Two of the lads will be on duty; one will be gone >> abroad for >> a few weeks; and the other and his family will be celebrating at home. >> But they >> will be back to us again shortly after Christmas D.V. >> At present I'm working on Glengarriff records. 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