How do they celebrate Halloween in Ireland?

its so different where i come form =] i come from the isle of man. halloween here is called hop-tu-naa [pronounced hop-chu-NAY here kids dress up in something scary [it has to be something scary], knock on a door and sing: hop-tu-naa put in a pot hop-tu-naa scold your throt hop-tu-naa i met an old women hop-tu-naa she was baking bonnig hop-tu-naa i asked for a bit hop-tu-naa she gave me a bit as big as my big toe hop-tu-naa she dipped it in milk hop-tu naa she wrapped it in silk HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY ginnie the witch is in ya house give us a penny we'll chase her out HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY now give us a penny before we run away and light the MOOOON! lol we tend to shorten it to this though: HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY ginnie the witch is in ya house give us a penny we'll chase her out HOOOP-TUUU-NAAAA TRAAA-LAAA-LAAAY now give us a penny before we run away and light the MOOOON! it's all funny =] we get money here rather than sweets, but you do get sweets from people who have moved here from across i know you wanted ireland, but the isle of man is way better!

Ha I'm not kidding, Halloween originated just up the road where I live! Seriously! No lies. Children bob for apples, trick or treat go to Halloween parties an basically try to scare the sh*t out of you! `Same in every country! Bangers are let off left, right and centre, fireworks light up the sky and there are sometimes bonfires (emphasis on the sometimes. You dunno what the county council could fine you for)

Halloween here involves that age old and revered tradition of bored teenagers egging anything that crosses their path. Cars, houses, pensioners, you name it, you can egg it. A more recent take on this tradition is fecking a load of flour onto what ever you have already egged which makes it even more difficult to remove.

Its pretty well identical! We have a few variations. I come from Sligo on the west coast of Ireland, I'm currently living in Kildare in the east. Even between these two places there are differences. Everybody has the trick or treating and the corny costumes, and there are fancy dress and horror movie nights, and egging and fireworks and the rest. There are slightly more mundane traditions that vary. In the west, we make a special type of hard ginger cake. In the north of Ireland, there is a peculiar dish made with cabbage and potatoes, with brass rings in it for people to find (dangerous to the teeth, if you ask me!). The east of Ireland is more heavily influenced by English tradition...i.e. they don't do anything other than the usual, generic stuff mainly! A friend of mine from Cork in the south told me that they ring church bells to bring the good spirits somewhere safe while they walk the earth. There are millions of local traditions, but overall, its celebrated the same as anywhere else.

There are many games associated with Halloween. Apples are a traditional Halloween fruit as they were very plentiful in October. These games are still played today. One of the most popular Halloween games in Ireland is 'Snap Apple'. In this game an apple is hung from the ceiling and the children are blindfolded. The first one to take a bite from the apple wins! This game can also be played by putting apples into basin of water. The first person to lift out an apple by grabbing the stem with their teeth is the winner.

Well if it was up to us we'd round up all the feckin teenagers in this country and intern them at the Curragh from October 25th to November 4th. We'd also pass a law that forbade eggs and flour being sold to persons under 25. That would soften their cough, right enough.

am ya we do pretty much the exact same thing over here in ireland except we don't have many haunted attractions or parades or theme parks! well i have never come across any of this things! by the way im irish!lol!

We get drunk and beat each other senseless with coal shovels.

The tradition of halloween in the US comes form Ireland, it comes from the celtic festival of samhain,Meaning the festival of the dead, the dead being the harvest, it traditionally covers the period up to the winter solstice which is the rebirth of the harvest year. For catholics this has been incorporated by the church to be all souls where the dead are remembered in prayers. The wearing of masks probably comes from the Mummers, Celtic people celebrated the seasons with feasts so an end of harvest celebration was probably observed. The puratian settlers in america would not have celebrated this, it would have to have come from irish emigrants and given its own unique twist and exported back to the rest of the world as the halloween we see today.