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Bonfire night

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  • #52
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Bonfire was always great fun when I was growing up, the whole village would get together and we'd get to go off and kiss girls our cousins in the bushes.
    FYP

    Location: Mayo

    In fairness you asked for it


  • #53
    Where To
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    My grandmother used to refer to bonfire night (June 23) as "the night for burning the protestant bones"

    I could never find a historical reference for this so I assume she was just a bitter ould sod


  • #54
    Duckworth_Luas
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    where do i go from here wrote: »
    My grandmother used to refer to bonfire night (June 23) as "the night for burning the protestant bones"

    I could never find a historical reference for this so I assume she was just a bitter ould sod
    Bonfire night goes back to before protestants, before Catholics, before any form of Christianity. It's a pagan festival, nothing to do with protestants or Catholics. It must be only herself who had this bizarre phrase.

    We used to always build our fire around an animal bone though. Why? Because that's what the older boys did, and the older boys before them, and before them, all the way back to prehistory when it had some sort of meaning. The local butcher would give us a cows leg (it seemed like it) and the fire would be built around it.

    In the English language bonfire was originally bone-fire I believe.


  • #55
    Cú Giobach
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    Mickeroo wrote: »
    In fairness I was always surprised we don't celebrate Guy Fawkes night here considering quite a few Irish people would have been happy to see the Houses of Parliament go boom back in the day :pac:
    If we were going to celebrate Guy Fawkes we should do it on April 13th, his birthday. Since Nov 5th was the day they caught him, and the day celebrates the fact he didn't blow up the Houses of Parliament. :pac:

    Fires all over the place here.


  • #56
    Buddinplant
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    there was bonfire building going on in the green in front of the house in sligo, being from Tipperary, i was utterly confused about this tradition, and actually just put it down to being in the 'Whest' until i saw what was going into the fire... in tipperary we call em the corporation skip days :P


  • #57
    CHealy
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Never heard about this before, it certainly doesn't happen in kerry or cork.

    I dont know about down the sticks but in Cork city its a massive night. Usually turn ugly though, last night being no different. Was woken up at 2 o clock in the morning to stones and fireworks being thrown at the fire brigade and squad cars. And I live in a quiet area, god only knows what carrying on went on up the northside


  • #58
    Mickeroo
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    FYP

    Location: Mayo

    In fairness you asked for it

    Touché!! :pac:


  • #59
    dpe
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    Cú Giobach wrote: »
    If we were going to celebrate Guy Fawkes we should do it on April 13th, his birthday. Since Nov 5th was the day they caught him, and the day celebrates the fact he didn't blow up the Houses of Parliament. :pac:

    Fires all over the place here.

    Exactly. November 5th has its roots in anti-catholic sentiment. Hardly a fitting celebration in Ireland. Oh, wait...


  • #60
    kraggy
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    I'm from Galway city and it doesnt exist there. Bonfire night is halloween. Halloween itself originated in ireland and is hundreds of years older than guy fawks so whoever said November 5th is bonfire night can go and walk on hot coals.


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  • #61
    6541
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    Heard that there was trouble in Cork for bonfire's night. I see its become a community event in Mayo with community fires. That's a bit sad !!


  • #62
    Jonny Blaze
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    A fire named after saint John?

    Count me in! ;)


  • #63
    6541
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    Back in the day it was madness !!


  • #64
    Lucifer MorningStar
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    6541 wrote: »
    Heard that there was trouble in Cork for bonfire's night. I see its become a community event in Mayo with community fires. That's a bit sad !!

    Why is it sad ?


  • #65
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I seen several bonfires last night, with one of them being built and lit on the pavement.

    Its feck all to do with religion, but just to cause a disturbance, anti social behavior, and to burn their rubbish.


  • #66
    6541
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    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    Why is it sad ?

    Bonfires are about underage drinking, teen sex, raves, not supervised by adults !! Bonfires are a right of passage.


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