Christmas Things that are uniquely Irish

Tins of Kimberly, Mikado and Coconut Creams! I'm not sure if coconut creams still exist, but I'm fairly sure those biscuits can only be bought here.

Christmas lights up outside a house on 26th January.

I don't have pics but agree with the post. There are several houses around here still bedecked with Christmas lights - they aren't lit however.

& still going strong, our two get them every year in school. To be fair they both read them too, doesnt take long mind.

I think we share the Christmas pudding tradition with the Brits...

Some of the other traditions here are local variations of Brit ones eg Christmas Radio Times -> Christmas RTE Guide.

Try get a copy of that now - they are like hens teeth!

Tell me about it. I was chasing a copy for years & finally got the last one in an online store someone in here kindly recommended. I know of others still chasing copies of it.

Must check back & see if I can find the online shop that I got it in.

Remember seeing it on Amazon and it was over €300 at one stage... likewise didn't want a copy that much!!

Not Christmas per se however a very Irish saying!

All members of the family hugging the ham before it goes onto boil!

Unfortunately not.

I suppose its an idea.

As someone mentioned, collecting Holly. We used to put it above pictures. Also ensuring we went with Christmas wreath to lay on our loved ones' graves, I still do this every Christmas. A tin of USA biscuits and the Lemons sweets I remember, probably did untold damage to my teeth!! 🙂

Yep. 4 of them, one for each 2 year school group - JI/SI, 1st/2nd....

The Christmas robin, a kind of elf on the shelf to report back to Santa

Popular up there too (in our house anyway!)

Was defentialy a bad one, bad workman and all that 🤣

A tradition still going strong in my home town is Santy in the local hotel.

I think it is the local women's group in the town that organise it, a local man does Santy and you pay at the door of the ballroom and the kids q up and meet Santy, tell them what they want and they get a reasonable enough present. It's been going since I was a kid anyway and it went ahead again one of the Sunday's before Christmas last year. A great social event as the parents who are there now remember when there parents brought them.

Did this go on in anyone else's town?