Easter Holiday Traditions

Good Friday in Ireland

Since medieval times, all bread baked on Good Friday was marked with a cross in remembrance of Christ's crucifixion on this day. The custom survives in the Hot Cross Buns we eat in modern times.

On Easter Saturdays we eat Harring.

Easter morning: the average Easter breakfast for an Irish man consisted of six eggs. Yes, Six! They might be fried or boiled. The fast of Lent finally came to a close on Easter Saturday, so the next day was a day of feasting. Lamb, veal and chicken were part of the festive fare.

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St. Patricks Day

St Patrick's Day is a huge festival lasting a week, it falls on a Friday this year and is always a national holiday with most people knocking a whole weekend of fun out of it, with various multi-cultural and fun events for all the family and visitors alike, with an estimated 500,000 people cramming Dublin's city centre for the Parade on the 17th of March

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New Year's Day in Ireland

Top 7 Irish new year traditions are:

Cleaning the house

remembering family members who had passed away by setting a place for them at the dinner table and leaving it empty

banging the walls of the house with bread as a way of chasing away bad luck and evil spirits

Great importance was placed on who was first through the door at the start of the New Year

placing misteltoe under a pillow to find a partner in the New Year

Hoping for wind from the West

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