In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, female and male, young and old.
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“An excellent and incisive probe into what a festival means to a separated culture." -- Journal of Popular Culture
“The definitive look as the uniquely Irish origins of Halloween.” -- Green Man Review
“The definitive look as the uniquely Irish origins of Halloween.” -- Green Man Review
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This review is from: The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland (Irish Literature, History, and Culture) (Hardcover)
There are many books on Halloween (including another by Jack Santino), but this book is unique in presenting a look at how very old customs have persisted amid the social turmoil and political unrest of Northern Ireland. Since Santino is an American folklorist, one would expect an outsider's view of Halloween. Instead, having lived in Northern Ireland for an extended period and formed working relationships with folklorists there, Santino offers a view of a cultural phenomenon that is both sympathetic and objective. His insights are worth considering. Perhaps the only drawback to this volume is its lack of historical perspective or comparison with other Celtic cultures. Despite this, the present volume is a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in Halloween itself or Celtic cultural remains.
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People I interviewed about Halloween invariably told me that it was a great family day, and they frequently likened it to Christmas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, Guy Fawkes Night, Hallow Eve, United States, Bonfire Night, County Down, Philip Robinson, Roman Catholic, American Halloween, County Antrim, Irish Folklore Commission, Old Halleve, Bangor Abbey, Church of Ireland, Northern Irish, Republic of Ireland, Eleventh Night, Great Britain, Help the Halloween, Twelfth of July, Biddy Early, Ferris Dennison, Irish Christmas, Irish Halloween, Linda Ballard New!
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People I interviewed about Halloween invariably told me that it was a great family day, and they frequently likened it to Christmas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, Guy Fawkes Night, Hallow Eve, United States, Bonfire Night, County Down, Philip Robinson, Roman Catholic, American Halloween, County Antrim, Irish Folklore Commission, Old Halleve, Bangor Abbey, Church of Ireland, Northern Irish, Republic of Ireland, Eleventh Night, Great Britain, Help the Halloween, Twelfth of July, Biddy Early, Ferris Dennison, Irish Christmas, Irish Halloween, Linda Ballard New!
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- Northern Ireland by Paul Bew on page 162, and Back Matter
- Northern Ireland (Cambridge Regional Geography) by Douglas A. Hill on page 88
- Unwrapping Christmas (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Daniel Miller in Back Matter
- Northern Ireland by Robert Blair on page 88
- Northern Ireland (Flashpoints) by Simon Adams in Front Matter
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