Talk:St. John's Eve

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Merge with Midsummer? --Troels Nybo 18:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] st. johns eve, ireland 19th century?

Just wanted to add something on the topic of st.johns eve/midsummer... my father was born in 1945 in a rural area in Ireland and in his childhood, st. johns eve, the 23rd of june, was still celebrated by bonfires every night of his childhood...I was myself born on the 23rd of june in dublin and despite the urbanness of it all everyone in his family still mentions to me, every birthday(as if I have not heard it before 27 times) that I was born on st. johns eve and that that is somehow important...he was also much delighted upon seeing it celebrated one year in lisbon, portugal on the same evening.... possibly a reason to mention it in a more contemporary irish context rather than confining it to the 19th century