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Even after all these years, even knowing perfectly well that it's 31 October, my split-second reaction to a single low-pitched bang is not 'firework' but 'bomb!'. After about three hours of semi-constant banging and crackling, however, I'm more or less used to it—it sounds like a quiet night in the Blitz out there.

elerrina_amanya is making brownies in the kitchen.....NOM NOM NOM.

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No, it's pretty much a non-event, even for Unionists/Loyalists, and you'd think they'd be all behind the Triumph of Protestantism.

I think that bonfires and banging things were traditional before Guy Fawkes; I don't know, but I think the Irish really believed in the Samhain stuff a lot more recently than other people, so I get a different vibe off it than what the Americans or English I know seem to.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

well, bonfires are pretty awesome, so really, why not? The druids really did know how to throw one heck of a party. I think it's cool the way modern Irish traditions sort of absorbed earlier ones-- I guess that happens all over the world, really, but I think I noticed it a bit more in NI than I do on this side of the pond (probably just because I'm from this side of the pond...)

Anyway. Happy All Saint's Day.

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It's like our traditions have more grown in place (although we are very good at importing American ones, lol).

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

ha, yes. Like the green beer in Dublin on St Patrick's day-- I'm almost positive there were more Americans there than Irish people. The poor Garda must have been so annoyed.

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Heh, we have no need to die the Liffey green, it already is :-P