In Shane MacGowan’s latest yule blog Shane shares his thoughts about the role of the female singer in everybody’s favourite Christmas song on the sixth […]

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[NOTE: For Happy New Year in Irish, see HERE]
Merry Christmas
You may think that this is about the little difference between our two nations of ‘Merry […]

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Apologies for a recent unexpected brief bout of happiness. I am currently mid-rant, rather long and unsavoury, and should finish it before I finish this […]

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I feel a rant coming on. Or two. Of the seasonal kind. It’s the Christmas fever, I think.
Or it could be just something I ate.
Read […]

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Two nights ago I drank too much. Last night I ate too much. Tonight, well, I’m really looking forward to tonight.

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Once upon a time I was in Molloy Brothers Irish Pub talking with Doug Frost about early punk when the subject of smoked salmon came […]

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If Christmas isn’t part of your tradition, or you live in an international space station, then you might not care that Springfield, Missouri’s News-Leader has […]

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J. Scott Wilson, of KMBC TV-9 suggests you have a Céilí for Christmas, but it might not be the Céilí you’re thinking of. This togetherness […]

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Midnight on New Year’s Eve
The only reason New Year’s Eve exists as a day of celebration is because it contains the last moments of the […]

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Lights
-Are you going into town to watch Dame Vera Lynn turn the Christmas lights on?
-No, but I wouldn’t mind going into town to watch the […]

Read: Irish Conversation in a Dublin Pub #34 »

Turkeyed Out
Okay the Turkey is an American bird, but it was in Europe that it got its name we know it by.
Europeans sailed to […]

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Feebly I reach a tired hand up to my desk, where I find several scraps of paper.
And a tape recorder.
Fearful of hearing sentences hurled at […]

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Christmas
-Do you guys have Christmas in Ireland?
See Other Irish Conversations (some even longer than this):
   • Leaves Changing Colour
   • Guns, the Americans, and the English
   • African-Americans

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #18 »

Nutrition
-Is that candy?
-Kind of, yeah
-What kind of candy is it?
-Vanilla Yogurt Covered Raisins
-Raisins?
-Yes. God made them
-Raisins aren’t candy
-But luckily for you they’re covered in sugar
-You […]

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #17 »

Once upon-a-time, on Hallowe’en in Ireland:
1. Which of the following did you never find inside a brack?
    a) Coin
    b) Ring
    c) Cloth
    d) Plastic […]

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If you listen to the current Cleveland Celtic Podcast - the Halloween Special edition - you’ll get to hear Ian Byrne, lead singer with The […]

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Q. Do You Have Halloween in Ireland?
A. We gave it to you
See Other Frequently Asked Irish Qustions:
   • What is Your Favourite Irish Saying?
   • What’s Irish […]

Read: FAIQ #14: Do You Have Hallowe’en in Ireland? »

Fourth
-How do you celebrate the Fourth of July in Ireland?
See also:
   • #11 - Jimmy
   • #10 - European Food
   • All Irish Conversations - Midwest, Dublin Pubs, […]

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #14 »

A: There was no Easter Bunny
Lent was a time of fasting. No cakes. No nice things made with eggs. To use up all your eggs […]

Read: FAIQ #3 What did the Easter Bunny bring you when you were a kid in Ireland?? »