TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santino,Jack
TI  - The hallowed eve: dimensions of culture in a calendar festival in Northern Ireland 
T2  - Irish literature, history, and culture
SN  - 9780813149943
AV  - GT4965 .H355 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Halloween
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Irish Christmas --; The personality of the season: rhyming, pranking, and bonfires --; Harvest --; The Feast of Autumn --; Oiche Shamhana, Night of the Spirits --; Tie the nine knots: games, divination, and belief --; Gender construction and cultural hegemony in Northern Ireland; 2; b
N2  - In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, female and male, young and old
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