{"product_id":"padraic-ofarrell-irish-customs-2004","title":"Padraic O'Farrell: Irish Customs [2004]","description":"This collection of Irish customs deals with such subjects as love and marriage; farming and fair days; food and drink; prayers and superstitions: the whole gamut of life as lived in traditional Ireland. The author notes that many customs are disappearing in a fast-changing Ireland, but that many others survive. As he notes in his Introduction to this little book: \"Before one Christmas past, I participated in a television discussion and felt obliged to take issue with a lady who claimed that the Christmas candle burning in a window was a thing of the past. At least three houses in the small avenue in which I live, my own included, still observe the custom. Just a few months ago, I purchased a car in a midland garage. When the deal was made and I paid over the agreed sum, the vendor handed me back a Euro20 'luck penny'. As the custom required, I 'dry spat' on it (hygiene disallowed the full treatment!). Passing near the delightful town of Inistioge in County Kilkenny a few days later, I noticed a gaily decorated May Bush on the roadside.\" The survival and continuation of such folk customs is a cause for celebration.\u003cbr\u003eThis book recalls them in the popular style that Padraic O'Farrell has made all his own.","brand":"O'farrell, Padraic","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52579802972499,"sku":"XV80717135950","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":52579803005267,"sku":"9780717135950","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-farrell-padraic-padraic-o-farrell-irish-customs-2004-1211103105.jpg?v=1765652837","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/padraic-ofarrell-irish-customs-2004","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}