bonfire night galway?

g_e_r_a_r_d

hiya!any info on bonfire night in galway!?

biko

1st or 12th of July?

Sherifu

Yes. It's tonight \o/

g_e_r_a_r_d

gonna wait til it gets dark and follow the smoke!does anyone know if theres any fires round cladagh or anything?

Sherifu

Dunno man, take pics for me please

Mars Bar

Will there be any bonfires that wil stay alight with the rain and all?!

Sherifu

Get enough petrol and tyres, anything's possible.

DRakE

why exactly are there bonfires?

JIZZLORD

DRakE wrote: »

why exactly are there bonfires?

because you touch yourself at night

Zzippy

DRakE wrote: »

why exactly are there bonfires?

St. John's night, its a tradition in Ireland to light bonfires on the 23rd of June. Probably goes back to pagan times celebrating midsummer, another pagan feast appropriated by the Church...

OP I think its more a rural tradition, I've never seen any bonfires in urban areas for it

Fracture

they should have one in eyre square, now that would be funny as hell.

Fly High

It's an ancient festival, something to do with mid summers and all that lark so when the christians couldn't stamp it out they claimed it as their own...
I'm down in the sticks of east galway at the minute and there are several bonfires, rain or no rain...

BrokenArrows

bonfires for those not wanting to burn a another hole in the ozone.

drunknmunky_69

3 pieces of wood in a bbq is not a bonfire.....wheres the broken couches,the million slabs of wood,the tires :O

BrokenArrows

dont forget the crates and petrol to get the thing going.

kevmy

A few auld mattress and some black plastic from the silage pit are also essentials.

Some bags of crisps and a bottle of TK lemonade and your set for the evening

connemara man

or every bit of burnable rubbish/ material to be found near or around ones premises.:D:D

three hours ours lasted thats how much c**p collected

gd1987

As someone said already its a rural thing, I've never seen or heard of any bonfires in the city, except for halloween.

BrokenArrows

gd1987 wrote: »

As someone said already its a rural thing, I've never seen or heard of any bonfires in the city, except for halloween.

well oviously. where do you expect them to have one in a city.

Can you imagine kids for weeks piling up a mountain of stuff in the center of eyre square.

chris_oc

tis a rural thing alright! great craic:D

what i really never got into though was the burning of tyres. never really appealed to me because of the ridiculous amount fumes that comes out of them when they're burning. bit more of an old fashioned man mysHelf, i like me tea with milk, me toast with butter and me bonfires with sHticks and kippens:p:p (bitta petHrol ta sHtart the thing off too!)

anyone else think its sh*te that to use tyres instead of good old fashioned wood??:rolleyes:

Tar.Aldarion

DRakE wrote: »

why exactly are there bonfires?

because it was my birthday.

ethernet

These horrid things are still going. Such a bogger thing. Was dragged to many in my younger years. Not much fun enduring a few hours of toxic smoke inhalation (tyres, matresses, dead bodies, whatever) while the adults got completed twisted on 'fine' wine and gossiped endlessly about every- and anyone.