Questions about Irish culture?

Question

Okay so the two questions are kinda weird joined together but I'm just wondering.

1.What are the 2 most special festivals in Ireland and why.

2. Are there any dietary taboo and restrictions?

3. How are food typically prepared in Ireland?

Answer 1

1: Christmas, because it's a prodominantly secular/christian country and saint patricks day because its our day!

2: none i can think of...

3: there prepared in the same way as other places only nowadays we've become more health conciuos (like everywhere) so i guess we use less bad stuff.

If you mean what food...again, the same as most countries but traditionally dishes include Stew, Coddle, potatoes, bacon and cabbage...all i can think of

Answer 2

I think the Puck Fair in Killorglin is special because it dates from long ago.

I don't know of any Irish dietary taboos other than the no meat of any kind on Fridays for Catholics, but not many people follow that one anymore. But you do come across the ethnic ones, like no pork for Jews or Muslims, no milk with meat for Jews, that kind of thing (lots of these ethnic groups now live in Ireland, Jews have been here for hundreds of years).

Food used to be boiled or roasted or fried. Now lots of people also steam and stir-fry also. And of course chips are deep-fat fried.

Answer 3

- St Patricks Day ( To Celebrate Ireland's patron saint) and Christmas (like in most parts of the world).

- No diet restrictions you can eat or drink what you like.

- The Irish love their drink so much that they don't care about food as much as the other europeans do. Fish and Chips, burgers, steaks mostly just the usual stuff, Irish stew, cabbage and bacon are some famous Irish foods. Traditionally potatoes were a part of almost every Irish meal and are still very popular as mash or chips.

Answer 4

1.  Easter and July 1st (Battle of the Boyne)

2. No Restrictions

3. You half fill a saucepan full of lard.  Then you bring it (nearly) to the boil and drop your sausages, chops, burgers, bits of steak and things in it. Take them out and serve with mashed and fried potatoes, tomato ketchup and stuff.

Answer 5

1.Probably a toss up between Christmas, Easter, and St Patricks Day.

2. No restrictions, but we generally find the idea of eating horse, dog, insects etc pretty abhorrant.

3. Well traditionally we would have had at home Irish Stew, Bacon Cabbage and potatoes, mince and potatoes, as another person said, barn brack (brings back fond memories of my own gradnparents)

But nowadays I don't eat meat anymore, though I would still eat potatoes on a daily basis, but it would be more like fish, veg etc, and of course the odd chinese or pizza =]

Answer 6

1.  St Patrick's Day, still a holy day of obligation & a public holiday in Ireland

Christmas, it does actually mean a lot to me because it's the one time we all make the effort to be together

2.  None that I can think of, fish on a Friday went by the wayside a long time ago, but don't come between an Irish person & their spuds and there's the tea drinking thing, it might be peculiar to my family but based on evidence gathered over the years, I don't think so - when visiting it's obligatory to drink gallons of tea (and if you're visiting my grandmother, you'll also have apple tart (or barm brack at Christmas) foisted on you).  

3.  Boiling, grilling, roasting, frying, stir frying, steaming

Answer 7

1.st.patrick's day (patron saint of ireland) and christmas(like most places)

2.no,you can eat whatever you like.but people would be shocked if you ate a dog or something lol

3.the way it's prepared everywhere else in the western world

fasial f is wrong,most people won't touch an alcoholic drink with dinner unless it's a special occasion.and we have become very concious of new cuisine and more adventurous so we do care about food as the rest of europe does

Answer 8

1. Christmas is definitely the most important festival obviously ..

and the second one is probably Easter ..?

2. Nope :)

3. grilling, frying, baking, roasting, boiling - the same as the rest of the world really!!