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People who grew up in Ireland calling it Boxing Day?

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    #122
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    OK, some people call it Boxing Day, some people call it St. Stephen's Day. But why is it that people resent it when people (including me) call it Boxing Day?

    But far more importantly, who the hell in Ireland says 'High Street'???


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    #123
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    McGaggs wrote: »
    But far more importantly, who the hell in Ireland says 'High Street'???


    People in Galway ?


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    #124
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    McGaggs wrote: »
    But far more importantly, who the hell in Ireland says 'High Street'???


    People in Galway ?

    You know what I mean.


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    #125
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    McGaggs wrote: »
    OK, some people call it Boxing Day, some people call it St. Stephen's Day. But why is it that people resent it when people (including me) call it Boxing Day?

    But far more importantly, who the hell in Ireland says 'High Street'???

    People in Wexford, or Graiguenamanagh, or Kilkenny, or Galway, or Killarney.......


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    #126
    LordSutch
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    OK, some people call it Boxing Day, some people call it St. Stephen's Day. But why is it that people resent it when people (including me) call it Boxing Day?

    Ignorance probably?


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    #127
    hondasam
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    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    WHY. DO. YOU. CARE?

    I never said I did care. Why do you care? what is the capital letters about?


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    #128
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Always called it Boxing day and always will. There is a saint related to every day of the year yet we dont go around calling days after them so why bother with this Stephen bloke just coz he was a martyr?

    At least Boxing Day has some relevance to Christmas and makes more sense.


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    #129
    stovelid
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    Seanchai wrote: »

    "Plenty" is very vague. "Boxing Day" is patently a usage by a very small and culturally more anglicised section of society who are either unfortunate enough to be still living under British rule, or geographically very close to that area. This thread has made that clear. Moreover, "Boxing Day" is a relatively new British neologism for St Stephen's Day. Why people are contending that it's not, as if "Boxing Day" has as long a history of use in this country as St Stephen's Day when it is clearly a recent import from British commercial culture, is the odd thing here.

    Boxing Day/ High Street/ British Isles reflect an idiosyncratically British outlook on the world. Don't bother claiming that they are Irish because historically they aren't. Just because some self-declared republicans in the Six claim it must be Irish because they use it doesn't make it Irish. They are still 90 years behind the rest of the country (socially-economically deprived British soccer-following areas of Dublin and Drogheda excluded, of course) in terms of their freedom from British cultural/commercial norms like "high streets" and "Boxing Day". Why this candid observation of the cultural world within which they have had the misfortune to grow up in in the North of Ireland rankles with some is strange. An Irishman in Derry is just as Irish as an Irishman in Kerry in his identity, but culturally they have had to live under British cultural norms and therefore what they see as 'normal' can be seen by people outside British rule as being very British. I have huge sympathy for the Irish in the North, but trying to sell us this sow's ear of "Boxing Day" as being up there with the silk cultural and historical purse of St Stephen's Day/Lá an Dreoilín is not on after all the work we've done trying to deanglicise the free part of the country.

    This contention, against all the evidence, that "Boxing Day" is as Irish as "Stephen's Day" is becoming quite silly now.

    My rule of thumb is just to call it whatever gets your bile running.

    So I'm sticking with Boxed Present For My Irish Manservant Day.


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    #130
    carfiosaoorl
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    The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, boxing day got caught in the furze. Nope that doesnt work, St Stephens it is.


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    #131
    A Dub in Glasgo
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    Witchie wrote: »
    Always called it Boxing day and always will. There is a saint related to every day of the year yet we dont go around calling days after them so why bother with this Stephen bloke just coz he was a martyr?

    At least Boxing Day has some relevance to Christmas and makes more sense.

    Why bother calling it Christmas if you think that?


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    #132
    efb
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    Is there a rule now about what were allowed call days now?

    What's Jan 6- Epiphany/Little Christmas/Women's Christmas/06/01/1/6?


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    #133
    The Scientician
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    efb wrote: »
    Is there a rule now about what were allowed call days now?

    What's Jan 6- Epiphany/Little Christmas/Women's Christmas/06/01/1/6?

    Nollaig na mBan


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    #134
    Bullchomper
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    Haaaaaa! Hilarious! Arguments about boxing day and spelling... Ah.. haven't been on Boards for a while, we should have a flat out unholy fiendish dispute about embroidered cushions - BASTARDING CUSHIONS!


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    #135
    efb
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    The Scientician wrote: »
    efb wrote: »
    Is there a rule now about what were allowed call days now?

    What's Jan 6- Epiphany/Little Christmas/Women's Christmas/06/01/1/6?

    Nollaig na mBan


    So should the 26th not be Là 'le Stiofàn then???


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    #136
    Witchie
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    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    Why bother calling it Christmas if you think that?

    Coz its what I grew up calling it.


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    #137
    Mike 1972
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    Bullchomper wrote: »
    we should have a flat out unholy fiendish dispute about embroidered cushions - BASTARDING CUSHIONS!

    Well at least its original

    You sir (or madam ?) are a fuking genius.

    let the trolling/flaming/banning begin !


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    #138
    A Dub in Glasgo
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    Witchie wrote: »
    Coz its what I grew up calling it.

    You may have grown up calling it Boxing Day but that does not explain the rest of your post


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    #139
    efb
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    In calling it Lá Dornailiocht next year- the barstoolers will be pišsed right off!


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    #140
    The Scientician
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    efb wrote: »
    So should the 26th not be Là 'le Stiofàn then???

    If ya like. ;)


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    #141
    westendgirlie
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    Yesterday was St Anthony The Hermit Day.









    I stayed in


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    #142
    [Deleted User]
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    westendgirlie wrote: »
    Yesterday was St Anthony The Hermit Day.









    I stayed in

    A day for getting crabs! ;)


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    #143
    efb
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    When's the feast day of the massacre of the holy infants


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    #144
    Bullchomper
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭Bullchomper


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Well at least its original

    You sir (or madam ?) are a fuking genius.

    let the trolling/flaming/banning begin !

    Madam, last I heard. I can't believe my attempt to instigate carnage failed. Not so much as a peep about needlework or fluff... I'm off to the corner of the room to wallow in dismay..


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    #145
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Deleted User wrote: »
    A day for getting crabs! ;)

    Getting them was the day before. Staying in on Hermit Day trying to get rid of em :eek:


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    #146
    getz
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    woodoo wrote: »
    Some people may have been raised calling it boxing day. Leave them be. Its what they are used to.
    some parts of the world say st stephens day is the 27th december,in fact untill the late 16th century even rome used to celebrate on that day.


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    #147
    philologos
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    For what it's worth, when I was growing up Boxing Day was used more at home than St. Stephens Day. Parents both came from border counties.

    As for why people are so insistent about St. Stephens Day, I couldn't see why most people in Ireland would care, as extraordinary as Stephen was in the early Christian church.

    Does it really matter which is used. I thought society should have grown up of the it's a British thing ergo we don't do it stage. If we haven't then it means that Irish identity is firmly pegged to British identity.


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    #148
    onedmc
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    The Carol Good King Wenceslas refers to the feast of Stephen.

    This was written by an Englishman about an English king so they must have referred to it as such at some stage. They Brits mush have changed the wording to reflect the generosity of the landed class to their grateful employee - they're all unemployed now


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    #149
    efb
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    He wasnt even a King! (QI told me)


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    #150
    AEDIC
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    onedmc wrote: »
    The Carol Good King Wenceslas refers to the feast of Stephen.

    This was written by an Englishman about an English king so they must have referred to it as such at some stage. They Brits mush have changed the wording to reflect the generosity of the landed class to their grateful employee - they're all unemployed now

    No it wasnt.... wasnt he a Duke of Bohemia or something (again from QI :D )


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    #151
    number10a
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    I actually find it quite sad that people openly admit to calling it Boxing Day "cos I heard it on the telly". I've no problem with people calling it Boxing Day, but seriously, are you really that impressionable??? You call it Boxing Day simply because you watch British TV. No other reason. No English mother, no growing up in England/Australia/Canada/Donegal. Just the telly. By that logic you should also go around saying "innit?" and "Giz a butchers!" too, and have a strange mix of different English accents proportionate to how often they are broadcast on the TV.


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