It's Halloween on the 31st October, the night when ghosts and witches are said to appear. Here are some suitably ghostly, spooky, evil and mysterious words and phrases… Witches, ghosts and skeletons ♦ witch-hunt – to go on a witch-hunt is to try and find and punish or harrass people with unpopular [...]
St Patrick’s Day
March 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
St Patrick's Day is on March 17th and it is the national day of Ireland. It is a secular celebration, and an important religious festival. It is holy day of obligations for Roman Catholics in Ireland, as well as a religious celebration for the Anglican Church of Ireland. St Patrick's Day has been an official [...]
St David’s Day
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
St David's Day is the national day of Wales. It is celebrated on the 1st March every year, by Welsh people all over the world. St David (Dewi Sant in the Welsh language) is the patron saint of Wales. He lived in the sixth century and is thought to have died on 1st March 589. [...]
What is April Fools’ Day?
March 31, 2010 By 1 Comment
April Fools’ Day is celebrated on the 1st April in many countries, including in the UK. It is traditionally a day to trick the gullible into believing stories that aren’t true, and for playing jokes on people in order to make them laugh, or appear foolish. What are the origins of April Fool’s Day? As [...]
What is Burns’ Night?
January 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Burns' Night is celebrated on the 25th January every year and is a celebration of the birth date of Scottish national poet Robert Burns (1759 – 1796). Robert Burns was the son of a farmer. He is said to have had a 'fondness for the ladies', and he was an enthusiastic promoter of human welfare [...]
When is St. Andrew’s Day?
November 30, 2009 By 1 Comment
St. Andrew's Day is on 30th November. It is the official National Day in Scotland, UK, and in 2006 was designated an official bank holiday by the Scottish Parliament. St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and also Greece, Russia and Romania. He was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles and is thought to have [...]
Remembrance Day in the UK
November 12, 2009 By 3 Comments
Remembrance Day (formerly Armistice Day) is on the 11th November. The Great War, or World War One, came to an end on the Western Front on the 11th November 1918 when the Armistice (a suspension of hostilities or truce) was signed between Germany and the allies of WW1 (fighting continued in other areas). At 11am [...]
