Tag: Easter

The small warren of streets around North King Street and Church Street witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. On Easter Monday members of the First Battalion of the Irish Volunteers under the command of Edward Daly and attached to the Four Courts garrison barric...

“My philosophy’s pretty simple. If you have the means at hand to help, you have a responsibility to do so. You should always punch up and never kick down. Those people who have less institution power than you do are never the source of your problems, and those people who are trying to co...

After decades, we already know quite a lot about the island’s history and its first inhabitants. However, it is still considered a mysterious place in the public opinion. To some extent, this is true. Scientists argue and discuss, for example, the still undeciphered local script called rongoro...

I recall so many fond memories of Easter growing up. We had family gatherings with lots of good food, plenty of sweet treats, and we always enjoyed an egg hunt every year. As we have all gotten older and had our own families, these traditions solely live on in my mind as beautiful memories. ...

The Easter Egg Hunt is a longstanding German Easter Sunday tradition, in which German children search for hard-boiled coloured eggs, chocolate bunnies, mini eggs or nests filled with the latter. In some parts of Germany, children collect moss and flowers in the forest on Good Friday and build Eas...

Easter is primarily celebrated in Western Christian countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and most of Europe. These countries follow the Gregorian calendar and observe Easter according to the Western Christian tradition. On the other hand, Orthodox Easter is observed in Easte...

“Hey everyone, and welcome back to our channel! With Easter just around the corner, it’s time to dive into the fascinating world of Easter traditions. Today, we’re exploring five unique Easter traditions celebrated around the globe. Let’s hop right into it!” Easter B...

Although every country has its own eccentricities and unusual traditions, each of us has grown up accustomed to these long-held rituals. It may surprise you to learn, therefore, that some of our traditions were even more baffling in the past, or have simply grown into something quite different fr...