Wren Boys? Don't make me laugh!

Oink · 27-12-2014 10:30AM

I got caught recently as I started answering the door again lately for some reason. I must have been sick or something. I'm better now, so the problem is solved. Unless they start singing through the letterbox thingy.

crockholm · 27-12-2014 12:21PM

I like the Dingle wren where they go around like the offspring of The Wicker Man and the Ku Klux Klan.

MRnotlob606 · 27-12-2014 12:36PM

Piss buckets at the ready.

snubbleste · 27-12-2014 01:41PM

Unless they rap this, they don't get anything
(wren = dreolín)

Chips O'Toole · 27-12-2014 02:31PM

Jawgap wrote: »

If it's done properly, it's a great tradition.

Eeehhhh, what country do you think this is? The new tradition is not to do things properly.

Cantremember · 27-12-2014 03:27PM

It's wren persecution. Picking on the smallest bird. Or one of the smallest to keep the bird police off my back. Think about the wrens. Think about the wrens. More turkey?

Axel Lamp · 27-12-2014 05:11PM

Nothing but travellers doing it now. Phuckers

chosen1 · 27-12-2014 05:40PM

mrsbyrne wrote: »

Mams and dads. Plonking Santa hats on your kids , driving them around the estates , having them ring doorbells to mumble two lines of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer , before they stick s bucket under the householders nose, while you sit smoking in the car is nit following the Wren. Its.sending your kids out to beg. At Chistmas. Please stop.

Do you say the same about Trick or Treaters?

At least it's keeping an Irish tradition alive rather than another American import. We always did it when we were kids and although it's rarer now, it's still good to see.

Liam McPoyle · 27-12-2014 06:19PM

I was in my local last night and a group of 4 gents from a particular ethnic minority came in, some dressed in drag, one wearing a pig onesie and started to "dance" in front of the guy playing music.

They then proceeded to go around the pub shaking a biscuit tin at the patrons looking for money.

Seemingly a couple of hours prior to that something similar happened.

Anyone else experience this or is it just a Longford thing?

jack of all · 27-12-2014 06:27PM

Myself and my missus went for late drink in Portlaoise last night and some proper wren boys came in to the pub- playing guitar, bagpipes and some class of a bongo drum. They were dressed up and played very well, there was great banter with the publican and patrons, it was great craic and I hadn't seen wren boys in years.

Kirby · 28-12-2014 02:32AM

I had this explained to me today as honestly, I had never heard of it before. It's obviously just a culchie thing as I've never seen this in Dublin or even heard anybody even mention it.

If it's just kids begging than I can see why it would be irritating....but on the other hand if some put in the effort and show up with instruments than I guess it would be worth listening to and paying for.

ronn · 28-12-2014 02:52AM

I was in a pub in cork and two seperate groups of kids came in looking for money screaming wren wren and shaking buckets,

Dempsey · 28-12-2014 02:56AM

Its just thinly veiled begging these days. They walk into pubs shaking their bucket and looking for money and dont do anything remotely competent or entertaining. Ask them to do something and they repeated sing the chorus of something incomprehensible and shake their buckets louder. It was a tradition dying out but a certain minority are bringing back in the worst form imaginable.

Peist2007 · 29-12-2014 03:13AM

diomed wrote: »

Brazilian footballer Garrincha earned his nickname from one of the names the house wren has in Rio de Janeiro.

Garrincha was born with one leg shorter than the other. Hence the shifty nature of tinker children performing the wren in pubs on stephen's day

upandcumming · 29-12-2014 03:32AM

A couple of years ago I had people come to the door before Christmas with the bucket singing. Told them to **** off lively.

Straylight · 29-12-2014 03:36AM

Thankfully I've never had to endure this sh*te in any of the parts of Dublin I've lived in. It's bad enough having to avoid the little fcukers at Halloween without them adding another day for more of the same.

Wren Boys? Don't make me laugh!

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