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They Who Howl at the Moon

Macnas Parade, Galway, 2016

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The origin of Halloween is found in Celtic Ireland

Discover the real origin of Halloween and find out how our ancestors' beliefs are echoed in the way we celebrate today.

Macnas Halloween Parade 'Savage Grace' 2016 in Galway, Ireland

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Macnas (Irish for "joyful abandonment") is a performance company based at the Fisheries Field in Galway, Ireland. Its public performances are noted for being "pioneering, inventive and radical" in style. The company has been credited with changing the nature of public entertainment in Ireland and is regarded as highly influential within the field of spectacle performance. (Wikipedia)

🎃 Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh ~ Happy Hallowe'en 🎃

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Members of the street-performance troupe Macnas participate in their Halloween parade called "Out of the Wild Sky" in Galway, Ireland, on October 28, 2018. #

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MACNAS HALLOWEEN PARADE IN DUBLIN ON MONDAY 30 OCTOBER [BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL IN DUBLIN ]-133671 by William Murphy Via Flickr: This event was not at all easy to photograph so I decided to have a bit of fun with some of the images. Hopefully the images will give you all a feel for the event. Macnas is a performance company based at the Fisheries Field in Galway, Ireland. Its public performances are noted for exuberance, colour and spectacle. The company has been influential in changing the nature of public entertainment in Ireland. Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianised as Halloween by the early Church. Some believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, separate from ancient festivals like Samhain. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration.

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Source: http://macnas.com/2017/09/04/macnas-parade-2017-sun-29th-october/

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Macnas show in Galway for Halloween 2022, hopefully next year we'll get the parade back! Photos are mine.

Inventors and explorers from all over the world were baffled by evidence of an ancient giant living underneath the Macnas workshop at Fisheries Field in Galway city. Professor Marjorie Morrigan, an expert Giants & Where They Come From, said – “This giant seems to have been here for centuries. There is a very large iron nose, so big and rusty,  you could park a car in one of the nostrils.”

- from the website

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Macnas

Pronounce it like this: mock-nus

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In town for the Macnas Halloween Parade. It's a gorgeous but cold night. Really looking forward to this.🎃👻