Ireland and Scotland should have patented Halloween before it went corporate
In my part of Dublin, at least, this has been the quietest lead-in to Halloween I can remember. Normally, starting in late August and escalating throughout September and October, the neighbourhood would sound evermore like a warzone every night.
And it must be the permeability of another Border – the one with a capital B – that explains why, although the sale of fireworks is illegal in the Republic, there has rarely been any shortage of them here.Time waits for Naumann – Frank McNally on a buried tragedy in Joyce’s UlyssesYou need a licence to buy them in the North too, apparently, but the number of outlets selling them within a banger’s throw of the Republic is suspiciously high.
This ancient Celtic festival of the dead fills some strange and unifying need in multicultural America, where even the blandest of suburbs are now decorated with flesh-crawling zombies, vampires, and half-buried bodies in gardens, none of them accompanied by the trigger warnings now considered necessary for everything else there.
He, she, or it was also called the “Coonian” ghost, because that’s the way Catholics pronounce the name of the wooded townland where the ruins of the haunted house still stand. The rappings sometimes extended to the rhythms of known marching songs. Confusingly, those appeared to span the sectarian divide .
That would normally have been the end of the story because, according to folk belief, ghosts do not cross water. This one seems to have been an exception, however.
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