#ststephensday — Public Fediverse posts
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“The Wren, the wren, king of all birds…”
Read more here:
https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/wren-day-ireland/
Lá an Dreoilín.
#TheWren #TheWran #Ballydehob #StStephensDay #Ireland #WestCork #NotAParade #WrenBoys #LevisCornerHouse #BlackAndWhite #Photography
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The Poolbeg chimneys rising above the fog #StStephensDay #Weather
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Happy 2nd Day of Christmas, anyone else having two turtle doves for lunch?
Also, Happy St Stephen's Day. #Christmas #12DaysofChristmas #StStephensDay
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Happy Stephensessessss Day, plain people of Ireland. (Or “Parents’ Christmas” where we get a lie-in and get someone else to do the cooking when we’re visiting 😛) #Mastodaoine #StStephensDay
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The city glow at dawn #StStephensDay #GoodMorning
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I'm about to fill the bird feeder. There's a note from the wren requesting home delivery. Apparently it'll be staying in today with the doors locked and the curtains pulled. #StStephensDay
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Family gathering for Stephen’s Day, the pudding is lit. #StStephensDay #ChristmasPudding #Brandy #SaintStephensDay #Mastodaoine
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Stephensesses’ Day:
I’m eyeing up the After Eights which were opened last night. I mean it’s 12:15PM so technically it is after eight … AM.
#StStephensDay #FeastOfStephen #AfterEights #LeftOvers #Holidays #Brunch #Mastodaoine -
Random Fact: Today is my parents' 70th wedding anniversary.
They were married on Saint Stephen's Day in Saint Stephen's church in Stevens Point Wisconsin in 1953.
I don't have any pictures online of them to display, both have been gone for years but their influence is still strong in my life.
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The #wren, the wren, yhe king of all birds,
#StStephensDay he was caught in the furze
Although he was little
His family was great
So up with the kettle and down with the pan
And give us a penny to bury the wren
If you haven't got a penny
A ha'penny will do
If you haven't got a ha'penny
Then God bless you. -
Today is #StStephensDay, when - after celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ - we remember the first Christian martyr, #StStephen In so doing, let us remember all martyrs, who give their lives for their faith, and everyone enduring persecution today https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-stephen-666 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1739587733373268268#m
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Meant to post this yesterday for St. Stephen's Day - this wren was one of two foraging for food in the Burren on a frosty morning a couple of weeks ago
#StStephensDay #Xmas #wren #bird #naturephotography #Burren #BurrenNationalPark #Clare #Ireland -
As it's #StStephensDay, can I point everyone to this great version of #StStephensDayMurders by @Theagilmore
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Husband sent me his drive-to-work music. I approve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8REBvT3UwTA
#StStephensDay #ChristmasMusic #Sting -
Happy #StStephensDay!
(#BoxingDay if you’re British 😏).I wonder if anyone still goes door-to-door with the Wren? Decades ago, our house in Connemara had a visit by a pack of boisterous wren-boys.
I regret not being able to see what they had in their cage. Was it an effigy? A real bird? Was it dead? 🤔
The visit carried a hint of threat that has been lost in modern trick-or-treating and caroling. They got their “penny for the Wren”, that’s for sure.😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyA1zKBUhxM -
The Wren Boys (c.1908) by Jack B. Yeats #JackBYeats #WrenBoys #StStephensDay
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The Wren Boys in Carrigaline, Co. Cork - an annual tradition on St. Stephen's Day
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I'e come across stories that a twittering #wren alerted #Roman soldiers to where #SaintStephen was hiding, but those strike me as a post hoc attempt to explain why #WrenDay and #StStephensDay are on the same day.
You rarely see #WrenBoys nowadays. That's a real shame, it was a really fun tradition. Also #charity. Charity is good.
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The story my mum told me is that God told the #birds to choose a king for themselves. The birds figured that since flying is their whole thing, their king should be whoever could fly the highest (so screw #ostriches I guess).
The #wren hung on to the #eagle, who flew higher than any other #bird... but then the wren nipped out and flew just that bit higher than the eagle. Since the wren technically flew the highest, he has been king of the birds ever since.
