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Single people after Valentine's Day: Well, at least that's over.

Kerry and Cork on Shrove Tuesday night: Hold my pancake
From RTÉ: Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster. On Shrove Tuesday, single people might be jeered by their neighbours and captured and herded into ponds or around the streets. Their properties might be daubed with rude figures in tar or paint, and firecrackers set off outside. James Beale's 1845 painting Skellig Night on South Mall gets across the carnival atmosphere of Shrove Tuesday in Cork, as people are mocked and manhandled by the light of torches and bonfires. In the same spirit, ‘Skellig lists’ were regularly produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Cork city and county, and parts of Kerry. Based on the conceit that the calendar of the Skelligs islands off the Kerry coast ran a day or more behind the rest of the country, it was derisively suggested that the unmarried should be paired up and sent there, allowing them a final chance to avoid ‘missing the boat’.
March 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Never forget who you’re doing it for ❤️
February 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM