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Sample the egg-citement of Easters
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These days we gorge ourselves on chocolate eggs at Easter, but there was a time in Northern Ireland when duck eggs would have been eaten in large quantities on Easter Sunday - with a competition to see who could eat the most! It was also a traditional pastime to paint hard boiled eggs with faces and roll them down a hill.
Easter was an important occasion, people liked to look their best and it was often the first outing for new clothes and a beautiful Easter bonnet. Numerous fairs were held on Easter Monday or, if you were lucky, you'd go on a day trip to somewhere like Bangor.
In 1986 Peter Logue took a look at some of the traditions
associated with the celebration of Easter in Northern
Ireland. This programme might have been made for a schools
series called "Today and Yesterday", but I think you'll
find it of interest whatever your age.
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