A few years ago, I shared a podcast about the kind-of data generation loss of Halloween traditions, exported from pre-Christian Oíche Shamhna traditions in Ireland and then re-importing back there after they were mutated by American culture. Now, my friend Darach O'Séaghdha — author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not-so-dead language and Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language as well as the host of the recently-deceased Motherfoclóir podcast — has shared some other weird old Irish Halloween traditions that, well, honestly, I think we need to bring back. — Read the rest
