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I heard that pumpkin carving actually came from an Irish tradition of carving turnips that got imported to the US where they switched to pumpkins. The legend of the jack o’lantern certainly originated from Irish communities.
I heard this as well. I also read that trick or treating is because in Ireland they would go door to door and sing songs for the spirits and then people would give them bread/cakes as payment.
Seeing as I was born on Halloween and have Irish blood in my ancestry, I LOVED learning what you taught in this video. Thanks so much! Oíche Shamhna Shona duit!
Yeah, I know my granny and great grandmother carved turnips back in the day and it's my understanding Irish immigrants brought that tradition to the USA and then substituted pumpkins for turnips 🎃
I still carve at least 1 turnip every year along with 2 or 3 pumpkins, I actually did one tonight! they take forever to hollow out but if done well can be even creepier than pumpkins but a hell of a lot of work, no wonder when they discovered pumpkins in the us they opted for them!
We never did turnips (1980s pre-pumpkins arriving) so that may have been a region specific thing, & perhaps why Clare didn’t mention it. Plus in those days all you got was nuts, fruit, & pennies. Chocolate & sweets are a new thing, another import from America. As is decorations - not a thing back in the day.
I knew it (Irish grandparent on my dads side) But I love when you tell history! I honestly think you should’ve been an educator for children! Seriously! Because the way you tell history is fun and you know your facts! Keep making videos like this😊
A couple of people have said that and I'm not 100% sure if it's true. The pumpkin carving info came from the Newgrange website, which I'd trust. I'll have a look and see can I find anything else.
"Bad luck would descend on the household for the following year..." So in 2019, no one offered the ghosts anything? Because 2020, the ghosts have been busy distributing all that ill will and bad luck. Great video, Clisare. Happy Halloween!
I learn so much from you! I'm American, 70.2% Irish ancestry. Also, I received a piece of your merch yesterday. A super soft, warm hoodie! Everyone should purchase!
Glad I had some of the correct info in my Halloween lesson! It's also interesting to compare different countres' traditions of remembering the dead. Irish Halloween, Mexican Day of the Dead, and Japanese Obon are all traditions where they believe on one or a few nights of the year the spirits of their families are able to return and the celebrations involve the offering of food and candles or lanterns to guide them.
Thanks for a great video! American pagan here and it was so fun to have a favorite youtuber talk about the Irish roots of what we practice these days. Really looking forward to seeing your podcast episode with the wiccan guest! Happy Samhain!
The Irish and Scottish ancestry in me has been nourished by learning more about the distinguishing and fascinating holiday of All Hallows Eve. Thanks for the treat!
Thank you Claire for this, i didn't know it was specifically from Irland but i did absolutely know that it was Samhain, and like so many other holidays the Christians tried to make it their own, but it is great to hear the more defined beginning
You know that you're Canadian if you design you Halloween costume to fit over a snow suit. Pumpkins. and other type of squash, were grown by the Iroquois, along with corn and beans. The plants help each other grow and a soup made from them is called "Three Sisters".
Lol, yes. I'm on the east coast now (Midwestern transplant), and was steamed this morning.. they'd predicted rain, but we had a mix of rain/snow, and it was coming down sideways! Now, just fat, lazy flakes. This isn't supposed to happen before Halloween, not here! 😁
@@allanlank Yeah, I still like fall... But Lord, it was coming down sideways...and my office is in a different bldg....and I had not dressed for that weather this morning! (Whinge, whinge)
Brilliant Clare - yeap you pretty much nailed it from what I remember from school too and actually taught me some new things 😀 😊. Thank you, as a country lad myself I miss the bonfires and association with harvest and turning of the year in Dublin. Thank you for bringing a bit of Halloween sparkle into this Level 5 lockdown 👻👻🎃🎃
Okay so I have to agree, I always thought that everyone knew the background and history of Halloween and similar celebrations, but my mother raised me as a pagan, and taught me a lot of Celtic history as well, so I always felt the same way, how is it that not everyone knows this information? My family is I think roughly 5th or 4th generation Irish, I know that I have generally close relatives that immigrated from Ireland, and it meant a lot to our family, because there was and is, always a lot of pride when the family speaks of the "homeland ", but either way I was brought up to know and respect the history of our ancestors, so I love watching your videos about Ireland's history, and all the knowledge that you share, it really means a lot, I really love your channel and look forward to your next video. Thank you so much for sharing 😊❤😊❤
Hello! American here..We were always taught that the Irish carved scary faces into turnips to ward off evil spirits and that is where jack-o-lanterns (carved pumpkins) came from.
I tried last year to carve a turnip into a jack o lantern in the traditional way, just for fun. I went out and bought the largest turnip they had, and well…it was a nightmare! Anyone tried this?! Like carving into solid wood…would not recommend 😂 pumpkins are an absolute improvement!!
OMG you look soo pretty- black outfit, pale makeup, red lipstick against a rainbow background :) Nailed it! FYI in America, there are churches that do trunk-candy events around Halloween for the kids. Everybody can dress up in costume and they throw an event in the church parking lot with food, displays and booths and stuff to make a safe environment for the kids to celebrate Halloween and give out candy. Some people get overly uptight about this holiday, but I always liked it.
Hi Clare, I'm living in Cork and my family told me what your saying above but also that the carving also came from us. Though originally it was turnips that were craved, would love to hear the history behind this though. Can't believe that you haven't been to a bonfire in 10 YEARS!! Poor you.
Also, above all else, the church is a really good business. They know how to give people what they want. So rather than try to stamp out old (non Christian) festivals when trying to convert people, they said “ok, you guys can keep your crazy festival, we’re just gonna change a few important names/details so you remember it differently.” So people still party/get drunk at the same times of the year, just for different reasons 🤷🏼♀️
Great video love learning about irish culture, I got allot of celtic heritage. Ever consider a video about irish mythology/pagan roots? That would be fantastic
The mind of Clisare is the engine that runs this channel.Thank you for the Samhain lesson. Once I was old enough to realize what Hallowen was really about, I couldn't understand why our church put so much effort into having a big Halloween costume party for the kids. Possibly just to put a non mysticism twist on the day.
Queen Maeve is one of the biggest figures from the Ulster cycle of Irish mythology. It's by far the bloodiest, sexiest and most violent of all 4 cycles of Irish mythology so school teachers tend to gloss over it. I think it''s also the longest, to really tell the story in full, you'd need a whole book. I think Kinsella was the one who first translated it unsanitised. Lady Gregory was the first one to really gather Irish myths and legends and write them all down in one place but she was interested in making them child friendly and aiming them at school kids (one thing that was cut for example is in the story of Deirdre of the sorrows, after Naoise is killed, there's a curse that...I think it's for the next 500 years? I could be off with that number, anytime a man of Ulster rode into battle, he would experience birthing pains throughout the fight), her stories for the mythological, historical and Fenian cycles are probably the ones most Irish people are familiar with and she did do a much better job with those cycles. Essentially, the way the story of Queen Maeve starts is that she and her husband, Ailill are lying in bed after a night of passion. Her husband jokes that she's a lucky woman to be with him and she points out that she is the daughter of the previous king, everything he has is because he married her. So this leads to a debate over who has more riches. They decide to line up all of their possession and discover that Ailill is richer by one bull. So Maeve can't let this stand and decides she has to get another bull and it has to be better than her husband's. But there's only one bull in the country that's better that the one that he has, the brown bull of Cooley. She offers sexual favours to the bull's owner. He agrees to the deal, however he then overhears some of his people gossiping that if he had not agreed to give it to her, she would have taken in by force. He goes back on his word and Maeve (and Ailill. He doesn't actually care about the bet anymore, he's just cheesed off that someone offended his wife) go to war with him. As I said, it's an extremely long story, regularly referred to as 'the Irish Iliad and I doubt anyone could really do the story well with one video. But if you're interested in hearing more, you should really check out Kinsella's translation.
For anyone interested in the Tain or cattle raid of Cooley there is a great live telling of it on the Candlelit tales RUclips page, hope this helps, Clare you are a shtar!
I'd be interested to know how Dia de los Muertos came to be a big thing in Mexico. It's about honoring the spirits of one's ancestors, so it seems close to the historical Irish Halloween, but as far as I know there aren't many Irish immigrants in Mexico. Pumpkins came from the Americas, along with a bunch of other food crops (like cacao, vanilla, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, etc). They couldn't have had anything to do with the original Irish Halloween because they hadn't made it across the Atlantic by that time.
i was taught how Halloween was started in school but that was sooo long ago now they probably don't do that anymore. However we were always taught that Irish carved turnips and such and then we started with gourds. :D love your channel
@@jacksonleevery5072 oh i completely agree i love her, she is amazing! Mostly what i was saying is that back when i was in school it was taught but probably not now and also sometimes what we are taught is wrong because of the turnips.
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Thank you for the history of Halloween. I know about it's origins, and the thin boundary between the other world and ours. DId not know about the bonfire;. Need to liberate wood now for today.
Some tea I heard through a Musgraves wholesaler; Apparently there was a load of problems with pumpkin crops this year and the ones that did grow were super small. This, and people looking for an indoor activity helped them sell out faster than expected! Sickened I missed my annual ritual carving :(
Thank you for making this! Also I’m glad to know the proper way to pronounce Samhain. The ghostbusters cartoon show in the late 80s early 90s completely slaughtered it and I’ve been saying it wrong ever since lol. Also some of what you talked about comes up in the book A Discovery of Witches and it’s sequel. Highly recommend the series by Deborah Harkness if you’ve not read it already.
Thanks Sooooooooooooooooooooooo Much Clare for making this hell yeah we invented Halloween!!!!! I learned about it in school as well catholic school at that but I learned that the carving actually came from Ireland as well that it was just turnips that were carved and left for the spirits as an appeasing gesture. We were also taught that trick or treating was derived from the famine when sadly our ancestors dressed in what little they had and went door to door begging for food due to the hardship of the famine but I always kinda had to question that theory. Very interesting topic love it fascinating thank you thank you Great video. God Bless from America.
The colourful background is actually quite fun! Very interesting video! I knew the festival was Irish (my fam is from Dublin) but I didn't know many of these other details. One thing I thought was interesting is your reference to the Celts as a separate group of people since you describe them as "they" in the video. I always thought of Ireland as being essentially a Celtic nation and would refer to the Ireland of 2000 years ago as "we" personally. It's just an interesting identity thing. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that.
not at all, irish people are a mixture of picts (the oldest settlers, they precede writings) the celts (they came later,mainly from france) the normans (later again,from normandy) and the vikings ,add into them the anglo irish that are about 3% of the population that came in from the victorian age. by my physical stature i look viking but my mother is norman (basically french) yet i have a celtic surname ,but that is probably the smallest part of my genetic makeup ,if you look at ireland my fathers city is the first place the vikings could land . theres also welsh (another type of celt) due to frequent trading too the normans were more prevalent in connacht where clare (and my mother) are from
Pumpkins with ghoulish faces and illuminated by candles are a sure sign of the Halloween season. The practice of decorating jack-o'-lanterns originated in Ireland, where large turnips and potatoes served as early canvasses. In fact, the name, jack-o'-lantern, comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack. Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities.
Irish emigrated in great numbers to Canada as well, so I'd assume they brought Halloween here too and it spread throughout my country in parallel with its propagation in the USA (rather than it developing first in the U.S. and only then spreading north via America's overwhelming cultural dominance on this continent). A most interesting and very educational video, Clisare!
Growing up in ireland in the 70s and 80s I never saw a pumpkin. It was from memory about the early to mid 90s that they started to become popular in ireland. That also seemed to coincide around that time with trick or treaters getting more in the way of candy etc rather then fruit and nuts etc. So it could be said that in the early to mid 90s in ireland that halloween became more americanised.
Definitely turnips up here in the north. They were bloody awful to carve out. I only did it the once and nearly wrecked myself in the process. An old bit of candle to light it up. None of your fancy wee tea lights! I’ve since done pumpkins for my grandkids. Dead easy!
Being a first generation American with my father coming from Dublin all that you said is spot on including the correct wording (all the people of the world think all we speak is English) I grew up to these stories and tales of the living and dead. Thank you PS the Americans carved the pumpkins to ward off the bad spirits from the entire house
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I heard that pumpkin carving actually came from an Irish tradition of carving turnips that got imported to the US where they switched to pumpkins. The legend of the jack o’lantern certainly originated from Irish communities.
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Me too.
I have heard that as well
I heard this as well. I also read that trick or treating is because in Ireland they would go door to door and sing songs for the spirits and then people would give them bread/cakes as payment.
@@kammymarie13 yes that too. In a part of the country where I'm from we did sing at doors up to the '80s/early 90s
Thank you Ireland! And thank you Claire! From Portugal.
I’m studying pagan right now I’m obsessed with it. My whole room is turning into an alter I love it!
Seeing as I was born on Halloween and have Irish blood in my ancestry, I LOVED learning what you taught in this video. Thanks so much! Oíche Shamhna Shona duit!
Thanks for breaking down the Irish origins of Halloween. The video was very informative.
I thought the Irish carved turnips and suade and things before pumpkins came over? I dunno. Thank you for a great video Clare!!
Yes we did so she is wrong on that aspect sadly
Yeah, I know my granny and great grandmother carved turnips back in the day and it's my understanding Irish immigrants brought that tradition to the USA and then substituted pumpkins for turnips 🎃
Yep. In our house in Armagh Gran would help us carve turnips which we would then line up in the front sill. Pumpkins are a North American squash.
I still carve at least 1 turnip every year along with 2 or 3 pumpkins, I actually did one tonight! they take forever to hollow out but if done well can be even creepier than pumpkins but a hell of a lot of work, no wonder when they discovered pumpkins in the us they opted for them!
We never did turnips (1980s pre-pumpkins arriving) so that may have been a region specific thing, & perhaps why Clare didn’t mention it. Plus in those days all you got was nuts, fruit, & pennies. Chocolate & sweets are a new thing, another import from America. As is decorations - not a thing back in the day.
Your channel is "Inside the mind of Clisare". There are no limits to what you can do here.
Yeap, every journey is a great one!!
For sure - variety is the spice of life! 👍
I knew it (Irish grandparent on my dads side)
But I love when you tell history! I honestly think you should’ve been an educator for children! Seriously! Because the way you tell history is fun and you know your facts! Keep making videos like this😊
The way I heard it, the Irish carved turnips originally, but when they got to america they found pumpkins which were much easier to carve.
A couple of people have said that and I'm not 100% sure if it's true. The pumpkin carving info came from the Newgrange website, which I'd trust. I'll have a look and see can I find anything else.
@@Clisare Ask Ciara - she said this on her Halloween Drink vid :-) Happy Halloween!!
I heard the turnip thing on Diane Jennings video
"Bad luck would descend on the household for the following year..."
So in 2019, no one offered the ghosts anything? Because 2020, the ghosts have been busy distributing all that ill will and bad luck. Great video, Clisare. Happy Halloween!
Damn it. I knew I forgot to do something last year.
Makes perfect sense why 2020 been such a fucked up year!!
I learn so much from you! I'm American, 70.2% Irish ancestry. Also, I received a piece of your merch yesterday. A super soft, warm hoodie! Everyone should purchase!
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@@Clisare I tagged you on Instagram. My name is different there. I've got the blue one.
Glad I had some of the correct info in my Halloween lesson! It's also interesting to compare different countres' traditions of remembering the dead. Irish Halloween, Mexican Day of the Dead, and Japanese Obon are all traditions where they believe on one or a few nights of the year the spirits of their families are able to return and the celebrations involve the offering of food and candles or lanterns to guide them.
I had Dia de los muertos running through my head, as well.
You forgot russian Maslenitsa
Thanks for a great video! American pagan here and it was so fun to have a favorite youtuber talk about the Irish roots of what we practice these days. Really looking forward to seeing your podcast episode with the wiccan guest! Happy Samhain!
The Irish and Scottish ancestry in me has been nourished by learning more about the distinguishing and fascinating holiday of All Hallows Eve. Thanks for the treat!
May I say great video! I love your videos. But when you do anything with history. I love it even more. Thanks so so much!
My mind has been blown only one minute into the video.
I love when you do new stuff like this, variety is the spice of life and who doesn't like spice, anyway keep them coming.
Thank you so much for the education of Halloween. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you Claire for this, i didn't know it was specifically from Irland but i did absolutely know that it was Samhain, and like so many other holidays the Christians tried to make it their own, but it is great to hear the more defined beginning
You know that you're Canadian if you design you Halloween costume to fit over a snow suit.
Pumpkins. and other type of squash, were grown by the Iroquois, along with corn and beans. The plants help each other grow and a soup made from them is called "Three Sisters".
Lol, yes. I'm on the east coast now (Midwestern transplant), and was steamed this morning.. they'd predicted rain, but we had a mix of rain/snow, and it was coming down sideways! Now, just fat, lazy flakes. This isn't supposed to happen before Halloween, not here! 😁
@@LindaC616 Slush (wet snow or freezing rain), the worst type of weather and why I prefer Summer heat and Winter cold rather than Spring or Autumn.
@@allanlank
Yeah, I still like fall...
But Lord, it was coming down sideways...and my office is in a different bldg....and I had not dressed for that weather this morning! (Whinge, whinge)
Brilliant Clare - yeap you pretty much nailed it from what I remember from school too and actually taught me some new things 😀 😊.
Thank you, as a country lad myself I miss the bonfires and association with harvest and turning of the year in Dublin. Thank you for bringing a bit of Halloween sparkle into this Level 5 lockdown 👻👻🎃🎃
What a cool story! I learned a lot today, thanks Clare for sharing! I know it’s an old video but I still enjoyed it.
Top Notch video. i used to work at an Irish pub and we made pamphlets about the history of Halloween. Thanks for being amazing.
Okay so I have to agree, I always thought that everyone knew the background and history of Halloween and similar celebrations, but my mother raised me as a pagan, and taught me a lot of Celtic history as well, so I always felt the same way, how is it that not everyone knows this information? My family is I think roughly 5th or 4th generation Irish, I know that I have generally close relatives that immigrated from Ireland, and it meant a lot to our family, because there was and is, always a lot of pride when the family speaks of the "homeland ", but either way I was brought up to know and respect the history of our ancestors, so I love watching your videos about Ireland's history, and all the knowledge that you share, it really means a lot, I really love your channel and look forward to your next video. Thank you so much for sharing 😊❤😊❤
Hello! American here..We were always taught that the Irish carved scary faces into turnips to ward off evil spirits and that is where jack-o-lanterns (carved pumpkins) came from.
That’s what I’ve heard as well here in America. Though, carving a turnip is apparently a very difficult feat. Pumpkins are much easier.
All my school memories are fuzzy too... 😂😂😂. especially college 🍺 Thanks for Halloween 🎃 we do love it here in America!
I love it!! Thank you love for this!! Love the history and the channel!!
Thank you Ireland! And thank you Claire!!!
Halloween is the best holiday of the year. Simply fun for fun's sake.
Thank you Ireland, thank you for Halloween 👻
I love you so much Sarah you're such a beautiful amazing sweet person sweetie stay safe 💙
Thank you. This is really interesting and just what I was hoping for in the informational video.
"This one's for you, Tony." had me DED. Loved that video!!
Thank you Wish I had grown up with these Facts
Thanks for the Gaelic pronunciations! Have you already done a video on it? You should do more Pagan videos!
I tried last year to carve a turnip into a jack o lantern in the traditional way, just for fun. I went out and bought the largest turnip they had, and well…it was a nightmare! Anyone tried this?! Like carving into solid wood…would not recommend 😂 pumpkins are an absolute improvement!!
Can't wait for the Storytime episode with Lora :D
This Friday!
My favorite holiday, and my favorite time of the year. The ber months...September, October, November, December.
Your deep dives are addictive! Great channel and content. 😀
Thank you Ireland!!! Halloween is my favorite holiday 🖤🖤🎃🎃🎃🎃 Thank you as well for the info🤘🎃👌🏼
Very interesting! Thanks for including those Pagan roots of Oiche Samhna. Blessed be!
OMG you look soo pretty- black outfit, pale makeup, red lipstick against a rainbow background :) Nailed it!
FYI in America, there are churches that do trunk-candy events around Halloween for the kids. Everybody can dress up in costume and they throw an event in the church parking lot with food, displays and booths and stuff to make a safe environment for the kids to celebrate Halloween and give out candy. Some people get overly uptight about this holiday, but I always liked it.
Love this on so many levels! Thank you ♡
A very Happy Samhain to Clisare , Alex & Millie. Boo !
Thank you for making this!
And it was much easier to carve a pumpkin than a turnip. Thank you Ireland for Halloween! It's my my fav holiday.!
Hi Clare, I'm living in Cork and my family told me what your saying above but also that the carving also came from us. Though originally it was turnips that were craved, would love to hear the history behind this though. Can't believe that you haven't been to a bonfire in 10 YEARS!! Poor you.
Also, above all else, the church is a really good business. They know how to give people what they want. So rather than try to stamp out old (non Christian) festivals when trying to convert people, they said “ok, you guys can keep your crazy festival, we’re just gonna change a few important names/details so you remember it differently.” So people still party/get drunk at the same times of the year, just for different reasons 🤷🏼♀️
Great Video! Thank you for doing the research and presenting it so well.
Great video love learning about irish culture, I got allot of celtic heritage. Ever consider a video about irish mythology/pagan roots? That would be fantastic
The mind of Clisare is the engine that runs this channel.Thank you for the Samhain lesson. Once I was old enough to realize what Hallowen was really about, I couldn't understand why our church put so much effort into having a big Halloween costume party for the kids. Possibly just to put a non mysticism twist on the day.
Thank you for giving us Halloween Clisare !
I would love to hear the story about Queen Maeve, seeing as my parents named me that 75 years ago.
Queen Maeve is one of the biggest figures from the Ulster cycle of Irish mythology. It's by far the bloodiest, sexiest and most violent of all 4 cycles of Irish mythology so school teachers tend to gloss over it. I think it''s also the longest, to really tell the story in full, you'd need a whole book. I think Kinsella was the one who first translated it unsanitised. Lady Gregory was the first one to really gather Irish myths and legends and write them all down in one place but she was interested in making them child friendly and aiming them at school kids (one thing that was cut for example is in the story of Deirdre of the sorrows, after Naoise is killed, there's a curse that...I think it's for the next 500 years? I could be off with that number, anytime a man of Ulster rode into battle, he would experience birthing pains throughout the fight), her stories for the mythological, historical and Fenian cycles are probably the ones most Irish people are familiar with and she did do a much better job with those cycles.
Essentially, the way the story of Queen Maeve starts is that she and her husband, Ailill are lying in bed after a night of passion. Her husband jokes that she's a lucky woman to be with him and she points out that she is the daughter of the previous king, everything he has is because he married her. So this leads to a debate over who has more riches. They decide to line up all of their possession and discover that Ailill is richer by one bull. So Maeve can't let this stand and decides she has to get another bull and it has to be better than her husband's. But there's only one bull in the country that's better that the one that he has, the brown bull of Cooley. She offers sexual favours to the bull's owner. He agrees to the deal, however he then overhears some of his people gossiping that if he had not agreed to give it to her, she would have taken in by force. He goes back on his word and Maeve (and Ailill. He doesn't actually care about the bet anymore, he's just cheesed off that someone offended his wife) go to war with him. As I said, it's an extremely long story, regularly referred to as 'the Irish Iliad and I doubt anyone could really do the story well with one video. But if you're interested in hearing more, you should really check out Kinsella's translation.
For anyone interested in the Tain or cattle raid of Cooley there is a great live telling of it on the Candlelit tales RUclips page, hope this helps, Clare you are a shtar!
@@antoanto5301 Thanks, I'll look it up.
@@MsAsh3070 So that's where they got the character of Queen Maeve for 'The Boys' TV show.
I'd be interested to know how Dia de los Muertos came to be a big thing in Mexico. It's about honoring the spirits of one's ancestors, so it seems close to the historical Irish Halloween, but as far as I know there aren't many Irish immigrants in Mexico.
Pumpkins came from the Americas, along with a bunch of other food crops (like cacao, vanilla, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, etc). They couldn't have had anything to do with the original Irish Halloween because they hadn't made it across the Atlantic by that time.
Thanks for the video was very well put together and enjoyable.
would love more videos about Irish history and cultural influences!
As an Irish-Canadian and a history major, I remember learning all of this, but bless you for reminding me.
So interesting! Love that you keep your content interesting 🧐
i was taught how Halloween was started in school but that was sooo long ago now they probably don't do that anymore. However we were always taught that Irish carved turnips and such and then we started with gourds. :D love your channel
@@jacksonleevery5072 oh i completely agree i love her, she is amazing! Mostly what i was saying is that back when i was in school it was taught but probably not now and also sometimes what we are taught is wrong because of the turnips.
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Thank you for the history of Halloween. I know about it's origins, and the thin boundary between the other world and ours. DId not know about the bonfire;. Need to liberate wood now for today.
thank you so much for Halloween Ireland and thanks for sharing the history Clare happy Samhain 💙
Some tea I heard through a Musgraves wholesaler; Apparently there was a load of problems with pumpkin crops this year and the ones that did grow were super small. This, and people looking for an indoor activity helped them sell out faster than expected! Sickened I missed my annual ritual carving :(
I learned something new about my favorite holiday/season. Much appreciated!
Thank you for making this! Also I’m glad to know the proper way to pronounce Samhain. The ghostbusters cartoon show in the late 80s early 90s completely slaughtered it and I’ve been saying it wrong ever since lol. Also some of what you talked about comes up in the book A Discovery of Witches and it’s sequel. Highly recommend the series by Deborah Harkness if you’ve not read it already.
sorry I have to say... your eyes look AMAZING with the black background (your hat) !!
Thanks Sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Much Clare for making this hell yeah we invented Halloween!!!!! I learned about it in school as well catholic school at that but I learned that the carving actually came from Ireland as well that it was just turnips that were carved and left for the spirits as an appeasing gesture. We were also taught that trick or treating was derived from the famine when sadly our ancestors dressed in what little they had and went door to door begging for food due to the hardship of the famine but I always kinda had to question that theory.
Very interesting topic love it fascinating thank you thank you Great video. God Bless from America.
ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SHOULD PAY Clisare FOR THIS!! [no ownering of Hllwn]
Loved this video!! Great info! I love Halloween!!
I am Irish American and I recently had to explain this very thing to other Americans on Facebook. Yikes! I thought everyone knew too 🤷🏻♀️
The colourful background is actually quite fun!
Very interesting video! I knew the festival was Irish (my fam is from Dublin) but I didn't know many of these other details. One thing I thought was interesting is your reference to the Celts as a separate group of people since you describe them as "they" in the video. I always thought of Ireland as being essentially a Celtic nation and would refer to the Ireland of 2000 years ago as "we" personally. It's just an interesting identity thing. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that.
not at all, irish people are a mixture of picts (the oldest settlers, they precede writings) the celts (they came later,mainly from france) the normans (later again,from normandy) and the vikings ,add into them the anglo irish that are about 3% of the population that came in from the victorian age.
by my physical stature i look viking but my mother is norman (basically french) yet i have a celtic surname ,but that is probably the smallest part of my genetic makeup ,if you look at ireland my fathers city is the first place the vikings could land .
theres also welsh (another type of celt) due to frequent trading too
the normans were more prevalent in connacht where clare (and my mother) are from
THIS... was an extremely interesting and illuminating video.... I cant wait to do a bit more research on this! Thank you!
@4:45 my father taught me how to carve a turnip, saying pumpkins were a yank thing.
Love the video. So refreshing to hear things pronounced properly like Samhain and not Sam Hane. Fair play to you.
What a great video !! Fun and informative.
Love this..! Explains the unrest I feel on Halloween, gotta be the wee bit of Irish in me...
Very interesting video. Wish we could have seen all your costume dear. Cheers from USA.
Loved this. I am very keen on Celtic history and tradition.
I LOVED THIS ONE CLISARE.. THANK YOU AND "HAPPUS SAMHAIN" TO YOU ..
American Irish here, Jamieson Sullivan at your service ma'am!! I'm truely in love with every piece of you!!
Thank you, entertaining and good information.
It makes my day to watch your vids, look forward to them after studying all day! This one was really interesting, learned something new.
Pumpkins with ghoulish faces and illuminated by candles are a sure sign of the Halloween season. The practice of decorating jack-o'-lanterns originated in Ireland, where large turnips and potatoes served as early canvasses. In fact, the name, jack-o'-lantern, comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack. Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities.
Awesome vid and your makeup was put on perfectly. Be safe
Thank you! I really enjoyed it!!
Lovely video, looking forward to your Lora O'Brien interview, will it drop soon? You two together will be class! Go raibh maith agat!
Irish emigrated in great numbers to Canada as well, so I'd assume they brought Halloween here too and it spread throughout my country in parallel with its propagation in the USA (rather than it developing first in the U.S. and only then spreading north via America's overwhelming cultural dominance on this continent). A most interesting and very educational video, Clisare!
Love you and love Lora OBrien. Looking forward to that podcast
This was great. Thank you
Growing up in ireland in the 70s and 80s I never saw a pumpkin. It was from memory about the early to mid 90s that they started to become popular in ireland. That also seemed to coincide around that time with trick or treaters getting more in the way of candy etc rather then fruit and nuts etc. So it could be said that in the early to mid 90s in ireland that halloween became more americanised.
Love your channel . You look so much like my Granddaughter , it makes it even more enjoyable. stay safe & wear a mask.
Definitely turnips up here in the north. They were bloody awful to carve out. I only did it the once and nearly wrecked myself in the process. An old bit of candle to light it up. None of your fancy wee tea lights! I’ve since done pumpkins for my grandkids. Dead easy!
Thanks for the Halloween history lesson. I learned something today. Have a wonderful weekend.
WoW ..What A Wonderful Witch~!!! 🎃
That makes a lot of sense
I'm in LOVE!
Love this thanks!!💕🎃💕🎃💕🎃💕
Thanks, from America.
Being a first generation American with my father coming from Dublin all that you said is spot on including the correct wording (all the people of the world think all we speak is English) I grew up to these stories and tales of the living and dead. Thank you
PS the Americans carved the pumpkins to ward off the bad spirits from the entire house
About bonfires...Texas A&M used to have a legendary 54' bonfire before playing the arch rival Texas Longhorns... animal bones into the fire...
This was brilliant, go raibh maith agat!