Social Studies Lab - Nollaig: Irish Christmas
Click on the Halo Christmas link, http://www.iol.ie/~marist/halo/halochristmas.htm, and navigate through while reading about decorations, food, traditions, and folklore. Then return to the blog and compare/contrast your holiday celebrations with the Irish. You must write in complete sentences and have a minimum of 5 topics to compare/contrast.
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One thing that is similar in both, tinsel, wreaths, boubles, christmas trees, fairy lights and holly are just some of the decorations used at Christmas time. With their Christmas they LOVE chocolate, they eat a lot of chocolate! We eat some chocolate but we don't eat that much at christmas; instead we eat christmas candy and other things. Also they have a church mass at 12:00 a.m., we also have that option but we can go to mass at 7 and or 8 p.m.but in each custom families go to church to worship the birth of "their" lord. Along with that, it says that some families and or churches have a crib, with Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we do the same for the most part. They sing Christmas carols and they sing some of the same that we sing, such as "Silent Night and We Three Kings" are just a few. Santa Claus is a big deal in Ireland as well as here. Children all around the world believe in something similar to the customs we believe and Ireland is included.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing my Christmas has in common with Ireland's Christmas is puyying up a tree, decorations, and lights. Ireland Christmas is much different because they have stuff like plum pudding. Most of the food they make is made a few weeks or months before Christmas, which is gross. I personally like my Christmas much better then theirs.
ReplyDelete1.They have a turkey fore dinner and plumb pudding.
ReplyDelete2.They decorate trees with lights and other traditional decorations.
3.The children get gifts from there parents.
4.They will tell each other stories and eat sweets.
5.They also get presents under the tree from Santa just like the christian Christmas.
Nollaig and Christmas have many similarities, but they have some differences. In Ireland they have to put out Christmas cribs, and decorate them. Where we live, we sometimes put Christmas cribs out, but most people don't. While I normally put out milk and cookies, they sometimes put whiskey and cookies. Both holidays eat a lot of turkey. In Nollaig they eat plum pudding, which isn't like the pudding we have here. Both holidays carol, too. We mostly sing the same songs, which is pretty cool. the decorations they put up are the same as ours: colorful lights, Christmas trees, boubles(to us it's ornaments), and tincils. I think the two holidays are very similar, but they're celebrated in different places. Super cool!
ReplyDeleteThey have Christmas trees in school we don't.
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas dinner they have is the same as mine except my family doesn't eat fruit cake or plum pudding, we have angel food cake usually.
They decorate the streets and Christmas trees so do we. They leave cake and Whiskey out for Santa, we leave milk and cookies. They call some decorations boubles, we just call them decorations.
I thought it was very interesting how we have so much in common for that holiday. I assumed it would be a lot different.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I found interesting is how we both have the same Christmas Songs. I didn't expect to have the same songs, especially those really popular ones we have here!
It is 4 weeks exactly before Christmas Day in the U.S. (December 25th) Is there a reason for that? I'm really interested in that.
We at pretty much the same food too! I know at my Grandma's house on Christmas day there is plenty of chocolate!
I think it's really cool that Santa's "elves" are the modernization of the "Nature folk" of the Pagan religions. :)
One thing is that we both use tinsel, wreaths, and Christmas trees for Christmas. We both sing carols at Christmas time, such as Silent night and We three kings. They eat chocolate as their candy, but we eat candy canes. We both use nativity sets. They put candles, or one big candle, and extra plates for Joseph and Mary. We don't. And lastly we both beilive in Santa Clause.
ReplyDeleteThere are many things the same with both our Christmas and there's. My favorite tradition that we share with them is midnight mass, and Santa Claus. We also share the traditions of: food, songs, gifts, decorations, and celebration. I think its really cool that there traditions are almost the same as ares'. Children in Ireland celebrate almost just like us, I think its really cool.
ReplyDeletethey holidays like us but they out lights out on the street and we just put lights on are house
ReplyDeleteand the have holiday treats like cake and pudding
and they sing just like us they go around singing
and they don't have a santa they have a different person.
One thing that is alike to my family's traditions and celebrations is decorating the Christmas Tree, or as they call it the Yule Tree. Although we decorate it to look pretty, not to represent certain things. We also believe in Santa Claus, or as they call him Father Christmas. However my family doesn't burn a Yule log. We do burn candles. My family always has a couple Nativities around the house, which is alike to the nativity cribs they have. My family also has a wreath but we hang it on the door.
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas isn't really the same. They have differences like the decorations. the decorations are like the wreaths that are just the tree branches that hang over the shops.They have the tinsel and wreaths. Another difference is the food. They have a lot of different food and the same like potatoes and ham. They also eat deserts after the meal like pudding. The folk is very different. The guy kind of scares me in that picture.(green eyes)
ReplyDeleteThe decarations are very similar. We both put up Christmas trees and decerate those with boubles and tinsle. They also have Santa Claus, but instead of milk and cookies they leave out whiskey and Christmas cake. They also sing Christmas carols. They sing many of the same songs as us such as "We Three Kings" and "Silent Night". They eat ham and turkey as the main course just like we do, but they have lots of vegtables too. One of the traditions they have is going to church on midnight Christmas eve/Christmas day to celebrate Jesus' birth. Another tradition is to light candles letting Jesus know that there is room in their house even if there was no room in Bethlehem. Some even set extra diner room for unexpected guests.
ReplyDeleteKids in America believe in Santa Claus and so do kids in Ireland. People decorate trees and give gifts in Ireland and they do in America too. Kids like to leave out milk and cookies for Santa but in Ireland they Leave out milk or whiskey. People in Ireland eat turkey and many Americans do for Christmas. Their pudding has a lot of stuff that Americans probably wouldn't put in their pudding.
ReplyDeleteIreland's Christmas is more similar to ours than I had realized. Ireland''s Santa Claus is almost exactly like ours. But the Irish have very different opinions about what Santa likes to eat. Their religious beliefs are similar to ours. They also have similar decorations. They have a lot of Christmas food that is similar to ours. Except the pudding! I thought it was interesting that they sometimes set another place at the dinner table.
ReplyDelete1.we both decorate they use tinsel which is so uncommon here i'm not that sure what it even is.
ReplyDelete2.we both believe in Santa Claus and we both know that if you misbehave you get coal but what i didn't know is that you can get ashes also. i find it funny that they leave whiskey out for Santa Claus because i wonder if that tastes good, cookies and whiskey.
3.we do not have traditional food but we do have stuffed turkey and potatoes. i never heard of plum pudding before reading this article.
4. i like they they also have nativity scenes because they are a big part of our culture to put out a nativity scene. i also like it because my grandma tells my sister and i the stories and i enjoy them so i am glad they can enjoy them also.
5.i think that we might not enjoy chocolate as much because we eat it all the time so it isn't as much of a treat, but we all love chocolate i especially like the guy's face in the picture of the guy with chocolate.
when we eat Christmas dinner here we eat ham,turkey,rolls and some other stuff,in Ireland they eat stuffed turkey and ham. After dinner we have pie or Christmas cookies, they sometimes eat plum pudding. The Irish think of Santa as a big guy in a red suit with a white beard. We think of him as the same but he's jolly too. They decorate the city with lights and we decorate Marion with lights. They put a candle in the window and the meaning for it is it shows Mary and Jesus. In Ireland they have a scene that has Jesus in this crib with all the people that were with him.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really see a big difference in the way they cellabrate Christmas. The only things that I really noticed were they leave whiskey out for Santa.(but i used to leave alchol out for Santa when i was little anyway.) They have Santa like we do. Also the folklore was very unusual and i don't think that ours is the same. For the most part they decorate the same. Their Christmas dinner is the same besides the plum pudding and the cake things.
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