Halloween or Hallowe'en

[Tony Baloney]

Remember the preparations would be going on well in advance. One of the lads would bunk off school, get the train to Dublin, head straight to Moore Street to buy fireworks with all our saved up cash and get the train straight back down. We'd have an awful job not to let them all off before the actual night. Also got caps that you'd use in a toy gun and folded them and wrapped them round stones with sellotape. Made a nice bang when they landed.

Forgot about that one! Looking back on it now the old folks must have been tormented round our way as there would be lads running along roofs of bungalows etc. in some of the estates.

[The Gs Man]

Putting fireworks into a plastic tube and firing them down the street like a rocket launcher in the middle of the Troubles.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Remember the preparations would be going on well in advance. One of the lads would bunk off school, get the train to Dublin, head straight to Moore Street to buy fireworks with all our saved up cash and get the train straight back down. We'd have an awful job not to let them all off before the actual night. Also got caps that you'd use in a toy gun and folded them and wrapped them round stones with sellotape. Made a nice bang when they landed.

Forgot about that one! Looking back on it now the old folks must have been tormented round our way as there would be lads running along roofs of bungalows etc. in some of the estates.

2p bangers. Wrap a full roll of caps around an 2p and cellotape.

[magpie seanie]

Remember the preparations would be going on well in advance. One of the lads would bunk off school, get the train to Dublin, head straight to Moore Street to buy fireworks with all our saved up cash and get the train straight back down. We'd have an awful job not to let them all off before the actual night. Also got caps that you'd use in a toy gun and folded them and wrapped them round stones with sellotape. Made a nice bang when they landed.

Forgot about that one! Looking back on it now the old folks must have been tormented round our way as there would be lads running along roofs of bungalows etc. in some of the estates.

2p bangers. Wrap a full roll of caps around an 2p and cellotape.

"Improvised explosive device".....we could all have been locked up!

[GJL]

Remember the preparations would be going on well in advance. One of the lads would bunk off school, get the train to Dublin, head straight to Moore Street to buy fireworks with all our saved up cash and get the train straight back down. We'd have an awful job not to let them all off before the actual night. Also got caps that you'd use in a toy gun and folded them and wrapped them round stones with sellotape. Made a nice bang when they landed.

Forgot about that one! Looking back on it now the old folks must have been tormented round our way as there would be lads running along roofs of bungalows etc. in some of the estates.

2p bangers. Wrap a full roll of caps around an 2p and cellotape.

"Improvised explosive device".....we could all have been locked up!

Fold them up inside a pen lid with a match sticking out as a fuse. Light end of match and run!

[The Iceman]

Trick or treaters get nothing at my door. Feckin' American bullshit. When did that shite make it's way over here?!

came over with the potatoe plant

[johnneycool]

Trick or treaters get nothing at my door. Feckin' American bullshit. When did that shite make it's way over here?!

came over with the potatoe plant

Hallow'een was an Irish tradition taken over to Merica on the coffin ships and commercialised and shipped right back to us 150 odd years later.

Turnips were too hard to get stateside it seems. Pumpkins were handier.

[rosnarun]

Remember the preparations would be going on well in advance. One of the lads would bunk off school, get the train to Dublin, head straight to Moore Street to buy fireworks with all our saved up cash and get the train straight back down. We'd have an awful job not to let them all off before the actual night. Also got caps that you'd use in a toy gun and folded them and wrapped them round stones with sellotape. Made a nice bang when they landed.

Forgot about that one! Looking back on it now the old folks must have been tormented round our way as there would be lads running along roofs of bungalows etc. in some of the estates.

2p bangers. Wrap a full roll of caps around an 2p and cellotape.

"Improvised explosive device".....we could all have been locked up!

probably a better chance now for annoying a dog or a cat somewhere

[BennyCake]

You can make it religious though. Rearrange the grotto.

of course its a religious feast it the holy even before all saints day , it used to be samhain before these same people decided to become Christian and follow christian ways while keeping some of the previous customs.

knocking gates and kicking cabbage were the big thing in mayo also it was the last day to eat blackberrys before the devil pissed on them

Anything could be a religious feast if the church hijacks it, and makes up a story around it.

Also, I doubt ordinary people "decided" to become Christian. Hairy arsed pagans deciding to become Christian? I don't think so.

[weareros]

The poor yanks, they think Sam Hain is the prince of darkness.

[ziggysego]

Bobbing for apples and all the monkey nuts I could ever eat. However, for me, Halloween is all about the purdy puddin'.

[laoislad]

Trick or treaters get nothing at my door. Feckin' American bullshit. When did that shite make it's way over here?!

+1

[rosnarun]

You can make it religious though. Rearrange the grotto.

of course its a religious feast it the holy even before all saints day , it used to be samhain before these same people decided to become Christian and follow christian ways while keeping some of the previous customs.

knocking gates and kicking cabbage were the big thing in mayo also it was the last day to eat blackberrys before the devil pissed on them

Anything could be a religious feast if the church hijacks it, and makes up a story around it.

Also, I doubt ordinary people "decided" to become Christian. Hairy arsed pagans deciding to become Christian? I don't think so.

and on what basis do you say that? ,
the evidence the people decided to become  Christianised For  is that they became Christian and embrassed it wholly and the Irish church was not strongly under the Influence of Rome until 100's of years later and not successfully till the English pope adrian in  1154 . the Gaelic  were a far from the Hairy arsed pagans  you dismiss so disdainfully  much like the normans did upon invasion and the 'Histories ' written by gerard of wales .
the Evidence against seem to be it suits the modern atheist theology

[omaghjoe]

Used to run a needle through the caps and squeeze them together as tight as possible, he theory was the tighter they were the louder the bang. Twas alot more time consuming than folding the caps but the result was supposed to be better. not sure about that at all

I was only at the tail end of that tho before the French (chinese) bangers flooded the market. Tub of margarine, banger and a phone box always had an interesting conclusion.

Purdy puddin tho sure ye couldnt beat it

[JimStynes]

We had the local area tortured when we were younger. Hardly even hear a banger go off now.