In Ireland
Prior to the Christianization of Ireland in the 5th century AD, the Celtic quarter days were observed:
- Lunasa (1 August)
- Samhain (1 November)
- Imbolc (1 February)
- Beltaine (1 May)
These are now called cross-quarter days since they fall about halfway into each of the English quarters.
Read more about this topic: Quarter Days
Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)