Since the very meaning of “Christmas Carol”,
the topic we’ve chosen for our project, has literary traceable origins in the short story written by Charles Dickens in 1843 with the title Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol)
me and all my pupils have started reading the [...]
Archive for December 5th, 2007
A Christmas Carol… by Charles Dickens
December 5, 2007Wren Boys Procession
December 5, 2007One very old tradition in Ireland is the Wren Boys Procession that takes place on St. Stephen’s Day.This goes back to ancient times when a real wren was killed and carried round in a holly bush. Some processions still take place, but no wren is hunted or used. The wren is one of the smallest [...]
Christmas food in Ireland
December 5, 2007An Irish Christmas Dinner
Nowadays almost everyone eats turkey for dinner on Christmas day, though some people prefer Goose, which is probably more ‘traditional’. Most people also have roast ham, along with the turkey. The turkey is usually accompanied with cranberry sauce. Dinner is usually eaten in the mid-afternoon or early evening on Christmas day, though [...]
