As we are coming towards New Year’s Eve, I said I’d share some recordings of practices real people did and still do. I recorded this account from a woman, Éini Jeffereys, in Arklow back in 2022. Éini, who is well into her 80s, told me that when they were small, they’d run out the front door with a shilling in their hand and run back in the back door with it, with the belief that they’d have money for the New Year. | folklore.ie

As we are getting close to midnight on New Years, here are somethings that you might not be aware of. 1. Opening the doors to welcome New Year in while letting the Old Year out. 2. Bringing something into the house before you brought something out. 3. Wishing the neighbours good luck at 12 o’clock 4. Go out the door and back in at midnight. 5. While red haired women were not welcomed into the house on New Years, only dark haired men. Great accounts here - all source material which I recorded in