Did you celebrate Easter as a kid?

Mrs OBumble · 21-04-2019 12:24PM

kenmc wrote: »

EReally wish Easter would just fcuk off, though the 4 day weekend is welcome, we can keep that.

It's happening. At least one bus company published an "April Bank Holiday" timetable this year.

Autosport · 21-04-2019 12:29PM

In my younger days we started on Shrove Tuesday and I went to alot of mass and religious ceremonies until Easter Monday. No egg hunts, no easter bunnies but we did get to pick out our chocolate egg and that was eaten on Easter Sunday. Lent was a nightmare as our local
Shop used to put different bars and sweets on offer but we were off them for lent

How Soon Is Now · 21-04-2019 12:29PM

Used to enjoy the whole Easter egg hunt thing as a kid just as much as eating the actual eggs!

Always remember the pope and his mass on telly that morning as well.

I remember the one year me da got an absolute **** loada small 101 Dalmatians eggs from work for some reason. We where finding them hidden around the house for at least a day or two haha!

branie2 · 21-04-2019 12:32PM

I went to Lourdes on Easter Sunday on two occasions.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-04-2019 01:46PM

Speedsie wrote: »

Grew up the the 70s & 80s.
On Easter Saturday we would wrap hen's eggs in string, then boil them with onion peel and gorse blossom to colour the shells. Then we'd 'blow' some raw eggs to get the white & yolk out, and paint the shells, which would later be hung on branches with ribbons.

After church on Easter Sunday, there was an Easter Egg hunt in the church grounds. Every child got at least one, but max was three very small eggs.

After lunch (lamb of course) we had a simnel cake. One shop bought Easter egg for the whole family. I suppose it was medium.

House decorated with the painted eggs, and one lovely clock work musical egg carousel with six beautiful painted eggs.

This was in Kildare.

Was this a Protestant Church?

Speedsie · 21-04-2019 04:23PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Was this a Protestant Church?

Church of Ireland, so sort of!

jimd2 · 21-04-2019 04:47PM

Vicarious Function wrote: »

Sounds like it was sad if you did or you didn't - celebrate Easter, that is.

It sounds like they didn't celebrate any holidays at all.

ToddyDoody · 21-04-2019 04:57PM

I can only remember the chocolate, being the dirty pagan that I am.
We did go to mass but I can't remember if the 3 purple candles, 1 pink and 1 white was for Christmas or Easter.
I think we 'ate out' some Easters.

The father used raid the chocolate in the coming days, which was a bit of a kick in the balls.

21-04-2019 04:59PM

We did the easter egg hunt thing, it was great fun checking everywhere for them, probably better than eating the eggs like someone said above. The thrill of the hunt I suppose.

To the sour shiites who think it's a load of crap, well, I'm sorry you missed out on the fun and excitement

21-04-2019 05:01PM

I met an elderly neighbour on the street one of the last times I was home and I reminded her that about 30 years before she invited me and my friend into her house at Easter and told us she had seen the Easter Bunny leave bunnies in the nest in the tree in her back garden.

We went out full of excitement and climbed up to find our first ever chocolate Easter Bunnies. It was such a magical experience to discover it, and she couldn't believe I remembered it so long later. How could a child forget it! Feck rationality, science and all the rest sidelining such memorable magic in a child's imagination in our "advanced" world. We need to be passing on more of our oral tradition regarding fairies, fairy forts, fairy trees, rag trees, an saol eile, Oíche Shamhna and all the rest.

Hoboo · 21-04-2019 05:03PM

jester77 wrote: »

The kids are after finishing their Easter egg hunt, they found plenty of chocolates and some small presents. In the days leading up they have been painting eggs and baking Easter bunnys. It's like a mini Xmas.

I made a few comments about this being a little over the top the last few years, but was told that this how it always was when she grew up. I'm living in Germany so maybe it is different here.

Or maybe not? I grew up in Ireland in the 70s and 80s. I would get asked if there was a particular type of Easter egg I would like, my mum would buy that one and we would get it after dinner on Easter Sunday. And that was it, just a regular Sunday with a chocolate egg.

How did you celebrate it growing up?

Guessing born 77 by your username. So pretty much the same age. Had Easter egg hunts at home and then at the grandparents with my siblings and cousins. Found an egg one year in a bush in November when getting my football out.

tuxy · 21-04-2019 05:08PM

Was anyone else encouraged to give up chocolate for lent but the parents would hold on to any chocolate people gave you.
Then on good Friday we were given the full container and would eat to the point of almost throwing up, just about recovering in time to eat one easter egg on Sunday.

Rubberchikken · 21-04-2019 05:13PM

midnight mass. mass on sunday. easter sunday dinner. easter egg. school holidays. whats not to like!

OldMrBrennan83 · 21-04-2019 05:14PM

We got Easter eggs and that was it.

Not sure when all this "Happy Easter" and other Americanised ****e started.

tuxy · 21-04-2019 05:15PM

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

We got Easter eggs and that was it.

More than one? Madness! :eek:

OldMrBrennan83 · 21-04-2019 05:16PM

tuxy wrote: »

More than one? Madness! :eek:

One each. We.

Conall Cernach · 21-04-2019 05:34PM

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

One each. We.

We used to get one each too. My brother pulled a fast one one year by eating half of my egg and then turning it round in the packaging so that it looked whole.

iamwhoiam · 21-04-2019 06:47PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I met an elderly neighbour on the street one of the last times I was home and I reminded her that about 30 years before she invited me and my friend into her house at Easter and told us she had seen the Easter Bunny leave bunnies in the nest in the tree in her back garden.

We went out full of excitement and climbed up to find our first ever chocolate Easter Bunnies. It was such a magical experience to discover it, and she couldn't believe I remembered it so long later. How could a child forget it! Feck rationality, science and all the rest sidelining such memorable magic in a child's imagination in our "advanced" world. We need to be passing on more of our oral tradition regarding fairies, fairy forts, fairy trees, rag trees, an saol eile, Oíche Shamhna and all the rest.

Absolutely keep the magic for the kids. Grandchild called in today and was mesmorised that Granda had spotted a white tail in the garden and found a piece of bunny fur on an azalea bush . The bunny had hidden two kinder eggs under that bush would you believe !

Hedgelayer · 21-04-2019 06:50PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Absolutely keep the magic for the kids. Grandchild called in today and was mesmorised that Granda had spotted a white tail in the garden and found a piece of bunny fur on a bush . The bunny had hidden two kinder eggs under that bush would you believe !

I know someone who can fit 3 kinder eggs in her bush, they call her the gadget she's a the human version of a swiss army knife...

The GADGET

Erik Shun · 21-04-2019 06:59PM

Hedgelayer wrote: »

I know someone who can fit 3 kinder eggs in her bush, they call her the gadget she's a the human version of a swiss army knife...

The GADGET

Give my love to your mam, tell her I'll Inspector Gadget

Teapot22 · 21-04-2019 07:26PM

I'm an 80's child so lots of memories of Mass. I always cried at the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday.

We always had the Easter Bunny too, my husband finds it bizarre, but seems a lot didn't have the Bunny delivering their eggs.I asked my Mum about it. My parents lived in Australia for a number of years and she said it was big there so she carried on the tradition when we came back.

branie2 · 21-04-2019 08:44PM

We never did the Easter Bunny in our house, the Easter eggs came from our parents.

21-04-2019 09:08PM

My mother used to go to mass every day during Lent. For a couple of years, I had to go along with her.
I remember Palm Sunday had the long gospel. Holy Thursday meant another mass (usually around 5.00pm) and that torturous service on Good Friday (the long gospel again). Good Friday was a terrible day in the 1970s and 1980s. Aside from petrol stations and the odd corner shop, nowhere else was open. There was nothing good on television. It was a day of "black fast" so I always remember being hungry.

We didn't go to the Easter Vigil mass on the Saturday but Easter Sunday 10.30am was the usual destination. We got our eggs afterwards - usually two each. In the 1970s I remember a plain chocolate egg in a mug.

For a couple of years, my father would hide creme eggs in the garden so my sister and I would search for them. I ate nine in one go in 1984 and puked up onto my pillowcase that night.

brookers · 21-04-2019 09:22PM

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in the country, I have been trying to explain to anybody that would listen, that Good Friday was a very black day then, I often remember the sky would turn dark around 3pm, you could only eat fish, no place was open. church went on a very long time, we would have gone about 3 or more times during holy week, it was all about how they dragged jesus to the cross and nailed him, cocks crowing three times, Jesus calling out why have you forsaken me. By the time easter sunday came you were really looking forward to a nice dinner. Dont really remember many eggs, they were quite expensive then, we probably had trifle. no easter bunnies or egg hunts or we didnt decorate the house, my mother would have sent easter cards though.

mvl · 22-04-2019 10:06AM

(80s') Grew up with Easter being influenced by protestant/orthodox traditions from mass point of view.
No chocolate eggs, but we had lovely home made cakes instead. No egg hunt.
Easter eggs were boiled/died. And we did egg tapping with them (still do today for our kids): before tapping two eggs, first person had to say the phrase, "Christ is Risen!" the second person would reply "Truly. He is Risen!"; the winner was whoever's egg lasted longer.

22-04-2019 07:10PM

_Brian wrote: »

I remember we had a Cludog once, think I doesn’t happen anywhere now.

Was common enough when we were kids.

somesoldiers wrote: »

For anyone else that never heard of a Cludog

Conduct a “cludog," where children gather eggs and roast them on a special device or contraption on the farm. Shells are saved and placed around the bottom of a May bush.

There has to be a name for this level of coincidence because I had never heard of clúdóg before yesterday, when I was sitting talking with a man in his mid-80s from north Leinster and he was telling me about clúdóga when he was but a garsún. Niall Ó Dónaill defined the clúdóg as a 'Batch of (Easter) eggs.' I started googling and there's a slew of entries about clúdóg on the (addictive) Dúchas website which has the collection from the Irish Folklore Commission's archive in UCD that de Valera established in 1935. Somebody connected to you is possibly recorded in it as they went around Ireland on bicycles, cars and trains recording stories so put in your surname or village just out of interest.

Fortunately, the search function on the Dúchas website is superb so the first page tells us where in Ireland the word 'Clúdóg' is most commonly recorded in their folklore archive: Cavan, Westmeath, Meath, Longford... (in that order)

Here's one of the 43 stories that return where 'clúdóg' occurs, collected in the 1930s in Longford from 84-year-old Paddy Donohoe, Farmullagh:

Old Festive Customs - Easter

The following was told me by Paddy Donnohoe:- To all the Irish people even now-a-days but more so back twenty years ago Easter meant "a good feed of eggs".
I often heard my father telling that when he was a wee gassoon [garsún!] running about barelegged along with the other youngsters they would "put in" as they used to say to be asked to "gugger" praties to their neighbour's house on Easter Saturday so that they would be sure to receive a few eggs as a gift for their cludóg on Easter Sunday. Here is his description of Easter Sunday custom.
We always heard that the sun danced early on Easter Sunday morning so many a time we were up with the lark and away to the hilltop to see the rising sun. "Look there is dancing" Seán's Pat would say. We'd all strain our eyes watching and then go home firmly believing that we had seen it. Ha! Ha! you weren't up to see it dancing we'd shout to the lazyboots who wouldn't get up. Anyhow when we'd go home the basket of praties was teemed and each one had an egg or maybe two boiling in the black porringer on the fire - this was a special breakfast for this morning alone. Often our elders strove with one another to see who would eat the most eggs. I heard that old Jimin Lojain ate fourteen and nearly died with a colic - Gold bless us"
When evening came we collected all our eggs and went down the long field to hold our cludóg. We had it under the lone bush and had a fire of sticks placed there a few days before. The girls joined in and brought a kettle, mugs, milk, tea and sugar. We usually had a "join" that is each paid a halfpenny a piece and bought a loaf. A halfpenny was a big thing in them days, sure the best workman had only four pence a day - behold you! Well we lit the fire, boiled the eggs and made the tea and ate our cludóg in grand style under the lone bush. When it was over we danced, sung and played games until we were worn out, then off home to bed giving thanks to God for a happy Easter Sunday.

Atoms for Peace · 22-04-2019 07:16PM

The only imaginary beings allowed in my house growing up were santa and the Virgin Mary.

namloc1980 · 22-04-2019 07:34PM

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

We got Easter eggs and that was it.

Not sure when all this "Happy Easter" and other Americanised ****e started.

Had egg hunts and Easter bunny and the likes growing up in the 80s. Some very miserable people in here.

TeaPot918 · 22-04-2019 07:37PM

Not in the religious sense, only the chocolate sense.

OldMrBrennan83 · 22-04-2019 07:39PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Had egg hunts and Easter bunny and the likes growing up in the 80s. Some very miserable people in here.

The 'Happy Easter" on the likes of Facebook or texts/whatsapps. Wishing someone (people outside the home at the very least) a Happy Easter is a new thing I've only noticed lately. Is it being creep introduces to push cards, etc?

Did you celebrate Easter as a kid?

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