Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!

Day 11: Ireland

Found two traditions that I liked:

1. In many towns om Easter Sunday, the local butcher would put a fish on a stick (often a herring), and parade it through the town in a mock funeral. Locals, sick of eating fish so often, would join in and often take a whack at the herring with a stick. The fish is "buried" (typically thrown back in the water), and the parade returns to town, probably to buy meat.

2. Farm kids on Easter Sunday also participate in what's called a cludog, where they gather up eggs and roast them in an area along the edge of the farmland. This apparently goes back to when eggs were included in the Lenten fast, though it's not clear why it's just kids and why the eggs are roasted rather than fried, boiled, etc.

One newer tradition (sort of) is pubs being closed on Good Friday. This was actually the law dating back to 1927, but the law was lifted last year. So for those pubs that chose to remain closed, a new(ish) tradition was born.