What Irish Christmas Traditions Do You Recall or Hand Down?

heres a Christmas card I have been using for years

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=JY10161936

feel free to use it if you like

This was handed down to me by my grandmother who was from Leitrim. The ditty was recited when the wren boys went calling on st Stephens day.


The Wren the wren
King of all birds
St Stephens day got lost in the furze
Up with the kettle Down with the pan
A penny or tupence to bury the wren
If you haven’t a penny a halfpenny will do
If you haven’t a halfpenny
God bless you!