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1st in with Boxing Day

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  • #32
    saiint
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    i call it boxing day
    and im irish
    and im ashamed now :(

    in future i shall call it the 26th!


  • #33
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Winty wrote: »
    Every year on AH we discuss topics again and again.

    One annual event is " Irish people and poppies on Remembrance Sunday " as I missed that one I am jumping in first with "Boxing Day"

    As a Donegal man we always call the day after Christmas Boxing Day and I am sick of people from down south correcting me with St Stephens Day

    I say Boxing Day what say you

    Depends on who i'm with.
    I use both


  • #34
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    saiint wrote: »
    i call it boxing day
    and im irish
    and im ashamed now :(

    in future i shall call it the 26th St Stephen's Day!

    FYP ;)

    Rabies wrote: »
    Depends on who i'm with.
    I use both

    Lickarse! :pac:


  • #35
    notfromhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭notfromhere


    u live in donegal winty


  • #36
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    My ex was from Stroan in Drumkeen and her, all her family and friends said Boxing Day. None of them would be unionists at all.

    It's fairly common in Donegal for it to be called Boxing Day.


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  • #37
    notfromhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭notfromhere


    am from donegal dont call it boxing day think its more a protestant thing


  • #38
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    notfromhere wrote: »
    am from donegal dont call it boxing day think its more a protestant thing


    I do not believe a Donegal Town man has never been to the boxing night disco in the Abbey or back in the day Neors but you may to a bit young for that


  • #39
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    notfromhere wrote: »
    am from donegal dont call it boxing day think its more a protestant thing

    boxing day is nothing to do with religion. It is the day when workers used to receive their xmas bonus from their bosses. (probably means rich people giving poor people the left-overs from the 25th but still...)


  • #40
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    corktina wrote: »

    boxing day is nothing to do with religion. It is the day when workers used to receive their xmas bonus from their bosses. (probably means rich people giving poor people the left-overs from the 25th but still...)

    Cheers corktina

    That explains why Donegal people say Boxing Day as we always had jobs up here unlike the rest of Ireland :)


  • #41
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    And whats with everyone having kippers for breakfast on St Swithuns day??

    Whats that all about.


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  • #42
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Winty wrote: »
    If You don't want to call it Boxing Day that's fine but you cannot lie and say its not common for others in Donegal to say Boxing Day


    Who cares. Call it what you want.


  • #43
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    corktina wrote: »
    boxing day is nothing to do with religion. It is the day when workers used to receive their xmas bonus from their bosses. (probably means rich people giving poor people the left-overs from the 25th but still...)

    It has evertything to do with religion when you consider that the UK call it Boxing Day but we call it St. Stephen's Day, thus, there would be an obvious divide in the North between who refers to it as one or the other.

    That tradition of servants receiving a gift from their bosses didn't happen in Ireland. It was in England and some Commonwealth countries, not including Ireland.

    The gesture itself in those countries is not relgion-related, but it's meaning in Ireland is to a certain extent owing to the unique political landscape on the island.


  • #44
    notfromhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭notfromhere


    donegal people do not say boxing day


  • #45
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Who gives a fcuk what it's called?

    Honestly build a fcuking bridge and get over it.


  • #46
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    The less of these saint's days we have the better.


  • #47
    notfromhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭notfromhere


    if all u can do is curse why do u post in another forum u muppet


  • #48
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    NiallSparky wrote: »
    The less of these saint's days we have the better.

    To be fair, as long as we get the day off I'm all for them. Throw in a few Jewish and Muslim holidays too.


  • #49
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    "In fairness, this is a really controversial and divisive issue" said no one ever.


  • #50
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    notfromhere wrote: »
    if all u can do is curse why do u post in another forum u muppet

    you do know text speak is banned in this forum?


  • #51
    notfromhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭notfromhere


    yes,


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  • #52
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    if you want to be different call it boxing day, nobody gives a fcuk - well they shouldn't


  • #53
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Don't see it as a religious thing coz my mums family (Catholics from Tyrone) and my dads family (Catholics from Monaghan) all say boxing day. My little bro is called Steven and is far from a saint so I refuse to give him a day.:-D


  • #54
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    I say boxing day, what with having been raised in England and all. I've only met one person that actually cared though, and he gave out for using a non-Irish accent while in Ireland. Twat didn't put on a cockney accent when visiting London.


  • #55
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    kraggy wrote: »

    It has evertything to do with religion when you consider that the UK call it Boxing Day but we call it St. Stephen's Day, thus, there would be an obvious divide in the North between who refers to it as one or the other. .

    This simplistic reply suggest all of the people in the UK are one religion and people in Ireland another


  • #56
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    notfromhere wrote: »
    if all u can do is curse why do u post in another forum u muppet


    Are you from London Town Brother

    Only London Boys say muppet


  • #57
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    In South Africa we called it "Oh No the Maid Won't Be Cleaning Up" Day.


  • #58
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Dec 26th 5 days since the solstice


  • #59
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    efb wrote: »
    Dec 26th 5 days since the solstice


    A few more weeks and the days start to get longer, W00t :D


  • #60
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Winty wrote: »
    This simplistic reply suggest all of the people in the UK are one religion and people in Ireland another

    No it doesn't. It suggests that traditionally, most people in the North that want stay in the UK are protestant, and most those who want it to be part of Ireland are Catholic. Which, traditionally, is the case.

    And thus, would employ the respective traditions of such countries more than than the people in those countries themselves

    e.g. Higher percentage of Catholics in the North playing Gaelic Football than those in the South; higher percentage of Protestants taking their Protestant religion more seriously than in Britain.

    Therefore, Catholics in the North more likely to call 26/12 St. Stephen's Day and the Protestants more likely to call it Boxing Day.


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  • #61
    darced
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


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