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St Stevens day and Boxing day

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  • 26-12-2014 11:43am
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    sonofenoch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭


    Who was St Steven and why isn't it a holy day.........Boxing day? what the hell does that mean and where did the name come from


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    rabwaygal
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭rabwaygal


    Dont think there was a St Steven tbh


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    its spelt Stephen, steven is the english way of spelling it

    St Stephen is the patron saint of shoppers, he declared in the year of 1066 that all goods should be sold cheaply this pleased the pope of the time and he was made a saint

    Boxing Day gets its name because thats the day all the cruel landlords in england use to go around and give there tenants a box on the head for being late with the rent


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    The Backwards Man
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    Thought we were going to get away without this balls this year. It's Boxing Day in Donegal and NI, St Stephen's Day in less sophisticated locales


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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,126 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    rabwaygal wrote: »
    Dont think there was a St Steven tbh

    wasn't his first name shakin?



    I grew up in a weird hybrid english/irish house where it was referred to as boxing day. Occasionally I still refer to it as boxing day. Irish people really have a problem with that name.


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    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    You might mean St Stephen (and why do you think he's not a saint?)

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen


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    sydthebeat
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    https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/ireland/st-stephen-day


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    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    It's because you box up your unwanted presents to return them.

    Traditionally, most presents in Ireland were Bought In Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, so about the 1920s we started to call it St. Stephen's Day, and the name's stuck.


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    Standard Toaster
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    It's because you box up your unwanted presents to return them.

    Traditionally, most presents in Ireland were Bought In Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, so about the 1920s we started to call it St. Stephen's Day, and the name's stuck.

    Stephen's Green Shopping Centre only opened in 1988


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    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Stephen's Green Shopping Centre only opened in 1988

    * whoosh *


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    It's Phaint Phteven


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    patob
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭patob


    Is day known as Boxing day throughout NI 6 counties or is St Stephen's day ever used?


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    KungPao
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Thought we were going to get away without this balls this year. It's Boxing Day in Donegal and NI, St Stephen's Day in less sophisticated locales
    And us Dubliners are the "west Brits"...

    I suppose you Ulstermen have Bonfire night, toad in the hole, spotted dick, and beans with your fried breakfast.

    You make me sick.


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    kneemos
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    patob wrote: »
    Is day known as Boxing day throughout NI 6 counties or is St Stephen's day ever used?

    Well you can be pretty sure some of them will use Boxing Day and the others will say Stephens Day.


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    the prods call it Boxing Day and the micks call it St Stephens Day

    yet another thing to divide the people


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    The Backwards Man
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    KungPao wrote: »
    And us Dubliners are the "west Brits"...

    I suppose you Ulstermen have Bonfire night, toad in the hole, spotted dick, and beans with your fried breakfast.

    You make me sick.

    Na, us Ulsterfolk are more concerned with the practicalities of every day life than the facetiousness of the naming of a holiday. Why use four syllables when you can use three?


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    Cantremember
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    Very wet day here. Looks like we could have a flood.


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    st noah's day ?


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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    You're forgetting St. Stephens's day


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    Matta Harri
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭Matta Harri


    Any Wren Boys yet? I used to love going in the wran


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    The Backwards Man
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    Cantremember wrote: »
    Very wet day here. Looks like we could have a flood.

    That's St Swithun's Day, the most quintessentially English saint of all. :p


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    sonofenoch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    the prods call it Boxing Day and the micks call it St Stephens Day

    yet another thing to divide the people

    Well I think I just started a new one with St Steven's day.....there's something there for everyone :D


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    KungPao
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    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    You're forgetting St. Stephens's day
    I was once so sick, that I had to go to James'es'es hospital on Stephens'ses's day.

    What a Christmas that was.


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    The Backwards Man
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    patob wrote: »
    Is day known as Boxing day throughout NI 6 counties or is St Stephen's day ever used?

    Was never used at all until the last 15-20 years. I blame young wans going to college down south and being castigated by their peers for using Boxing Day, and coming home to tell us all they knew better.


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    Harry Palmr
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    It's because you box up your unwanted presents to return them.

    Traditionally, most presents in Ireland were Bought In Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, so about the 1920s we started to call it St. Stephen's Day, and the name's stuck.
    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Stephen's Green Shopping Centre only opened in 1988
    eviltimeban wrote: »
    * whoosh *

    Standard Toasters reply was perfect.


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    kneemos
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    Say Boxing Day in the South and you're always met with an immediate chorus of Stephens Day.


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    barneystinson
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    It's Saint Phteven

    Don't you mean Phaint Phteven? (Or is it a selective lisp?)


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    barneystinson wrote: »
    Don't you mean Phaint Phteven? (Or is it a selective lisp?)

    :eek::mad::(:pac:

    Fixed…


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    #29
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Standard Toasters reply was perfect.

    He's not actually a toaster.


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    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Its Saint Boxing day in Leitrim.


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    c_man
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Say Boxing Day in the South and you're always met with an immediate chorus of Stephens Day.

    Well before that, we'll have to talk about this "The South" business


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