HOLIDAYS WALES AND IRELAND

WALES

HOLIDAYS: 1. NEW YEAR AND CHRISTMAS-DECEMBER 24-252. ST DAVID'S DAY-MARCH 13.BOXING DAY AND CHRISTMAS BANK HOLIDAY-DECEMBER 26-274.ST. VALENTINE’S DAY-FEBRUARY 145.ST. PATRICK’S DAY-MARCH 176.APRIL’S FOOL-APRIL 1

7.QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY-APRIL 218.EASTER-MARCH9.AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY-AUGUST10.NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL-AUGUST11.HALLOWEEN-OCTOBER 3112.GUY FAWKES NIGHT-NOVEMBER 5

Christmas in Wales, accompanied by many ancient traditions. Houses are decorated with candles and holly branches . The morning service people sent with the same candles - even before it was common for women to organize a competition for the best decoration candles. One of the really specific features for Wales - choral singing . Annually among residents organized festivals choirs . As a result, they selected the best writer and performer of ballads. If in the northern part of Wales a real holiday - Christmas and New Year just attached to it , but in the south and the new year is celebrated widely , loudly and solemnly . Here observe the custom of New Year's - when the host opens at midnight and keeps the front door open until the clock strikes : in this way the old year may leave and new - to enter the house . The houses and streets singing hymns and Welsh miners grandiose procession through the streets of the town or city - also with the singing of hymns and festively lit bulbs. Morning of the first of January in all the houses go boys , sprinkles water each . At the same time they enjoy evergreens symbolic here, as in any other country in the world . Boys sing Christmas songs and , of course , get paid for it sweets . Welsh traditional holiday meal for the whole of Great Britain : this pudding , apples baked in pastry , cakes. Like all the Celtic peoples , Welsh customarily baked round cakes with a hole in the middle if the tortilla breaks, it is considered a bad omen .

NEW YEAR AND CHRISTMAS

MARCH 1 EACH YEAR IN WALES PARADES MEMORY OF SAINT DAVID . THE LARGEST OF THESE IS THE PARADE IN CARDIFF. IT IS ATTENDED BY SOLDIERS OF THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENT , AS WELL AS ORDINARY CITIZENS OF WALES. ST DAVID'S DAY CELEBRATION ARE BECOMING MORE COMMON. CONCERTS ARE HELD IN PUBS , CLUBS AND OTHER VENUES .ON THIS DAY THE PEOPLE OF WALES ARE ATTACHED TO CLOTHING , ONE OR BOTH NATIONAL SYMBOLS OF WALES : DAFFODIL (TOTAL WELSH CHARACTER) OR THE LEEK ( SAINT DAVID'S PERSONAL SYMBOL ) . GIRLS SOMETIMES WEAR TRADITIONAL WELSH COSTUMES TO SCHOOL. ALSO IN CELEBRATION OF THIS DAY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE FLAG OF SAINT DAVID , WHO CAN OFTEN BE SEEN ON THE STREETS OF WALES.

ST DAVID'S DAY

Holiday, which is celebrated on March 17 in memory of St. Patrick. During the celebration with parades in 1762 made wearing green clothing. The official symbol of the holiday is the shamrock - is a graphical representation of clover and leprechauns and Irish flags.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY

The official birthday of Queen (sometimes referred to simply as "Queen's Birthday") - the day that officially celebrated the birthday of the monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (usually does not coincide with the real birthday). Date varies from country to country and only symbolizes the birthday of the ruler (the current monarch, Elizabeth II, was born April 21, 1926).

QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY

Held every last Sunday of August. This street festival for two days, during which time, everyone is trying to put on a fancy or extravagant clothes, music played nonstop until late, fairs are held with a variety of dishes and many other interesting activities. Sometimes the streets playing famous musicians and orchestras perform Caribbean or Arabic music.

NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

On this night , the fifth after Halloween , there is a failure of the Gunpowder plot , when a group of Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up the British Parliament in London on the night of November 5, 1605 , during a speech from the throne of the Protestant King James I, when, apart from him , at the House of Lords would be present members of both Houses of Parliament and representatives of the supreme judicial authority of the country. Guy Fawkes tried to set fire in the basement of the Palace of Westminster barrels of gunpowder . One of the partners warned royal Lord William Parker on the intended explosion and said that he did not come the next day at the palace building . Lord decided to save not only their lives , but also the royal life. He warned the king, and the next day Guy was arrested and taken to the Tower.  In the UK, Guy Fawkes night fireworks and bonfires are lit on which burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes . And before the boys begging for coins " for a great guy Guy " to buy firecrackers .

GUY FAWKES NIGHT

Ireland

Holidays:1. New Year-January 12. Day of St. Brigid's-

February 13. Good Friday-before

Easter4. Easter Monday-after

Easter5. May Day-May

6. Lugnassad-August 17. St. Stephen's

Day-December 26

8. Samhain-October 31

9. Mabon-September 22

Holy Brigita - one of the three most revered saints of Ireland , which also include St. Patrick and St. Columba Killy. In the most popular legend says that the saint Brigit was the midwife of the Virgin Mary . It was believed that on the eve of his feast of St. Brigit travels the country , blessing the people and their homes. As a symbol of the fact that in this house her happy and looking forward to her visit , laid out on the windowsill or pie slices of bread with butter (in some parts of Ireland specially for this day to bake bread in the shape of a cross ) . Next put a few ears to her favorite white cow .

Day of St. Brigid's

Celtic pagan holiday of the beginning of autumn , his name means " gathering Meadows " or " wedding Meadows ." According to legend, he found god Lugh in honor of his foster mother , the goddess Tayltiu after her death.August 1 is celebrated as the beginning of the collection and production of blueberry pies from grain. Analogue Slavic holiday Honey Spas .

Traditional Irish blueberry pie : berries are harvested in the vicinity of Dublin on the last Sunday of July, which is called " blueberry Sunday ." This is one of the customs associated with the holiday Lunasa .

Lugnassad

The first Christian martyr, Archdeacon Stephen was one of the Seven Apostles, chosen by the Apostle Peter to help the poor and preaching Christianity. He was martyred (Stephen stoned) about 35 year of a new era. It is known that one of his tormentors was Saul - who later became the apostle Paul, a beacon and a pillar of Christianity.

St. Stephen's Day

Celtic festival of the end of harvesting. Marked the end of one agricultural year and the beginning of the next. Festival lasted seven days. Sometimes confused with the Halloween holiday.

Samhain

This day is the time of harvest, and it is traditionally associated with the hunting of all the gifts of Mother Earth . This is the second day of the year , when the night is the day in the Wheel of the Year. References to the arrival of winter, during this period veduny Celtic rituals performed to ensure the adequacy of food in the winter. The rite was that first demonstrated at the festival , and then eaten the best gifts of summer. Druids traditionally climbed on top of the mountain to spend more time with the summer sun , since the nights are getting longer . Mabon usually go on nature, in the woods , collect seeds and fallen leaves . Some of them are used to decorate the house , others retain the future for herbal magic. Meals on Mabon is the second harvest of the fruit , such as grains, fruits and vegetables .

Mabon

I gave you some holidays Wales and Ireland. You probably saw that the holidays in these countries are very fun. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your attention!

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Work done: Davlethanova Dinara, a student of class 8a number 3.Teacher:Nigmatullina L.R.