St. Stephen's Day in Ireland is celebrated in a different way but is similar to Boxing Day in other places in so much as it also has to do with the solicitation of money.
The
Young men is extravagant dress with some of them wearing masks parade through
the streets noisily in what is known as the Wren Boys' Procession.
The
young men carry a long pole on top of which is attached a holly bush and the
bush is supposed to contain a captured wren, and it’s for the wren’s sake the
young men beg for money.
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