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Pishogues

LONE WOLFF · 2012-04-30 19:00:17

How many people still sprinkle holy water all over the place on May Eve ? Is it mainly a country thing or do people i urban areas do it as well?

30-04-2012 7:00pm

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How many people still sprinkle holy water all over the place on May Eve ?
Is it mainly a country thing or do people i urban areas do it as well?

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#2 07-05-2012 8:00am

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I've not heard of that before but around these parts people scatter flowers on the doorstep on the 1st May, I don't know why but I did it myself all down through the years, this is the first year I didn't bother.

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#3 10-05-2012 11:06am

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Are they not called pishrogues?

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#4 10-05-2012 1:26pm

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2ndcoming wrote: »

Are they not called pishrogues?

Seeing as its a bastardisation of Irish, I doubt it.

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#5 10-05-2012 2:09pm

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I know it's from old Irish, my Mam's from a Gaeltacht area in Donegal so we grew up with lots of these old Irish words in anglicised form.

She always said pishrogues as in 'I don't believe in any of those old pishrogues'.

Another great one was 'the furgorethar' for being starving, as in 'I've got the furgorethar'. Think that one comes from fear gorta - hungry man.

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#6 11-05-2012 9:49pm

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Well, as the Irish is piseog, there's no r in there.

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#7 26-07-2012 11:24pm

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I've heard it said Pishterogues!

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#8 27-07-2012 1:35pm

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The Scawgeen wrote: »

I've not heard of that before but around these parts people scatter flowers on the doorstep on the 1st May, I don't know why but I did it myself all down through the years, this is the first year I didn't bother.

I'd never heard of this before until I met a woman from Co Wicklow recently, who had scattered the flowers as you described.

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#9 27-07-2012 3:40pm

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thread here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056669668

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#10 27-07-2012 6:10pm

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gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

thread here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056669668

Thanks for that link...I'm after really enjoying reading through that thread:)

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