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Halloween then and now in Northern Ireland

Many of my american friends struggle to believe that here in Ireland, before pumpkins were imported and widely available, we carved out turnips as lanterns for halloween! I thought I would share a few more of the differences between then and now Then Carving Hacking out the middle of a large turnip with a metal…

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When is a pumpkin not a pumkin?

Answer When it is a turnip! Yes, growing up in Ireland, we did not have pumpkins filling every shop on the weeks preceding Halloween. Halloween was a much less commercial event, and in mainland UK Halloween was overshadowed by Guy Fawkes Night on 5 November. As a child we had to make do with turnips…