CHRISTMAS! 🎄❄️ | IRISH VS AMERICAN 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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0 DAYS TO GO! It's December 25th - Merry Christmas!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas from ours to yours! (or whatever you celebrate). Hope you enjoy our Christmas special where we discuss some differences and similarities between Christmas in Ireland vs America, and also some stories about our own Christmas memories.
Please note that this video is for entertainment purposes. It's fun but also important to learn about other cultures, and learning about each other's has been one of the best parts of our relationship, and the source of so much laughter still to this day!
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👋Hey everyone! My name is Amy McDonagh and I’m an Irish guitarist living in LA since 2019. I make videos about all things guitar including covers, vlogs and travelling! Please subscribe and don’t ever hesitate to leave me a comment or drop me an email via my website, I love to chat with fellow music lovers!
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ROAST potatoes! Not baked potatoes dammit 🙄
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Agreed, but they are different.
I am so surprised that Christmas Crackers are not a world wide thing!
Yes, roasted potatoes, big difference.😊
Mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but roasted are my favorite every other day. Fav food in every form!
We put our real tree up on 24th. Family would decorate half tree, and after kids went to bed, Santa would come and decorate the rest which were the kids ornaments and he always gave us a new one every year. We take it down Jan 6th as well. I'm curious why do you put yours up on the 8th and not on the 1st of Dec? It's my dream to spend Christmas in Ireland some year. 🥰
I’m very late, but my favorite Christmas movie is “A Christmas Story”. It’s all about the traditions of Christmas from a kids perception.
I'm laughing and crying!! Mum was born (1923) in Dublin, me Da in 1917 in the wilderness somewhere between Cheyenne and what would become Jackson WY in the states. I was born outside Barcelona in Spain. My Mum was teaching there and Da serving in the US Navy was stationed there. We (I was the eldest of 5) grew up in a tiny town (less than 3k when we first arrived still under 30K) in the Mojave Desert of CA, between Mammoth and Death Valley. We all went to catholic school. Christmas was magical! Thanks for bringing up so many memories!!! Midnight Mass (at 1130 pm so the Concercration timed out around midnight!), pie and hot chocolate when we got home (very chilly to freezing at night) then the 1 gift, pjs! Waking up so early. Dinner at 2. Ham for Christmas, Brussel sprouts always. Goose for New Year (Turkey and Ham for Thanksgiving). Family and friends. So wonderful. Songs (Da sang behind Bing Crosby in the Kraft choir before WWII). Amazing!!
I'm the oldest of 9, so I got to walk to midnight Mass with my best friend Kathy Super. We'd leave our houses at 10:30p.m. and go sit in St. Thomas More Church in Chicago and listen to the men and boys choirs sing Christmas carols for an hour before Mass. Then after Mass, we'd walk home in the snowy dark magical night. Gifts were opened in the early morning. Gifts were not wrapped...they just had name tags on them. The entire parlor floor was wall-to-wall gifts. It was wonderful!
Santa used to get Sherry and Shortbread in our house - my mum knew what she was doing :D
One year my dad decided we were not going to have a Christmas tree (I think funds were low that year to pay for the lights).
Anyway, I was about 10 and I was not going to stand for this. I cycled about 5 miles to a conifer forestry and cut down a tree (technically theft, but sure ya'no...), tied the tree to my bike and cycled home with it.
My dad was impressed that I had managed to get the tree back and that I was so determined to have the Christmas tree I did not even get in trouble. Just decorated the tree without lights and Christmas was saved (in my head at least).
I work as an EMT, and there is a lady in the town I volunteer in who LITERALLY has her tree up ALL YEAR. One year, when I was maybe 5, my dad actually wrote me a "letter" as Santa. Looking back on it years now, he always printed whatever he had to hand write because his cursive penmanship was horrible with him being a lefty, but id never seen my dads handwriting before until then so I bought it. I would leave cookies/milk/carrots for Santa. My mom, being the health nut always went for the carrots. :-)
Fun fact: Tim Allen was actually arrested in the 70s for drug trafficking
Lovely, nostalgic Christmas memories. ❤
That's what it's all about, family time and faith.
Edit: Fav Christmas movies are A Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life, Home Alone 1 & 2, The Holiday, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
BUT my #1 choice as of last year is: A Christmas Story (the old one, with the orphaned child raised by the town each a year at a time, until the Mean Old Miser of the town took him in. Oh, it's so good - I can't give away the story.
In my family on Christmas Eve we always did the Feast of Seven fishes (Which is a traditional Italian meal with 7 certain fish/ seafoods). My family just has a seafood feast. When I was younger we would go to church Christmas Eve afternoon before we ate. Then Christmas day we would get up and open presents, then more family would come over and we'd have dinner (usually we'd have ham and always have some sort of pasta, since my family is part Italian). Ever since my sister's and I have grown up things have changed a little. Now that my older sister is married and has a child, we open up present either Eve or day depending if she is coming over for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
We used to go to the earliest Mass possible on Christmas morning because we couldn't go see what Santy brought until after Mass. I'm the youngest of 5 so it was a well established tradition by the time I came along.
We also only got Santy presents in the morning, any presents from eachother or from aunt's and uncle's stayed under the tree, not to be opened until after we all finish Christmas Dinner, so like 6 or later.
You know it's Christmas when you see the Coca-Cola add on the telly!🇨🇮
Holidays are coming. Holliday's are coming
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Is that supposed to be an Irish flag? I think that's Ivory Cost...
I first saw the cute crowns and Christmas Crackers on Doctor Who. it made me wanna go to the UK during Christmas so I could do that. haha. 🙂 (I'm in the states). ❤
My family, doesn't have any holiday traditions anymore. Except for making 🍓 Gelatin 🥗 in honor of my late grandmother. She'd always make the Gelatin 🥗 every year for the holidays. It's been almost 8 years since she left this world 😞
We had turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas my whole life growing up. But my family decided to have something different for Christmas, so now we have seafood gumbo for Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas Amy and Ashton hope you having a wonderful day 😊 🎄 x
This was fun! I love your Irish vs American videos.
Merry Christmas!
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Our Xmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving and stay up until at least after the New Year.
GREAT GREAT VIDEO GUYS! what a fantastic serious...I NEVER want it to end, you MUST do the with every forever 🤣. My grandmother came here from Ireland and I have aunts and uncles that she had here but moved back there... I would do anything to be able to go visit. We had plans but something came up...here's to hopes in the future! Much love cherub angel face! Merry Christmas🎅
Irish eggnog, Advocat and white lemonade lol. Love you two you crack me up with your differences keep it going guys xx
That's great! I love that your Christmas cracker had the pirate joke and the pirate eye patch. It's usually so much more random than that!
And my favorite movie is also Muppet Christmas Carol! Michael Caine is so good as Scrooge!
Love the video Amy keep up the great work 💚
What a sweet video! I have just stumbled over your Irish vs American and have fallen in love with you guys! It's such a wonderful format and so funny! Please keep them going. It's really entertaining to listen to you. :-)
I will definitely be watching this video at Christmas again :--)
You two are the CUTEST couple EVER!! Thanks Amy, for sharing!!! I LOVE these kind of videos!!!!😃♥️👍💋❤️😘💕
Merry Christmas from Ireland 🇮🇪
Love watching these.
I had to watch this again lol this video is so much fun! I just adored listening to your families Christmas stories & the different Holiday traditions! It honestly made me cry tears of joy because that is extremely sweet & kind of your parents to make it so special for you guys & I know you & Ashton will be AMAZING parents some day if you have kids (which I really hope you guys do)
We have had Christmas Crackers every year for the last 20 years thanks to me!! When I started the "tradition" everyone thought I was nuts, now everyone looks forward to it! LOVE IT!!
Amy I can't get over how similar our Christmas mornings were! I guess it's an Irish thing- but I also specifically remember waiting with my siblings for my dad to get the video camera and record us going into the living room. The door was always locked too because they didn't trust us, and we also had a rule in the later years where we couldn't get up too early. I'm 18, and obviously still living at home so that rule still applies!
Aww I missed the live but it was a good video
Growing up in Hungary 🇭🇺 I always was excited for the Christmas village in my city I went with my family every year, there was a choir or a band, Ferris wheel, and little shops of food! On Christmas Eve we always went to my grandparents house and we ate Fish Soup or Stuffed Cabbage and maybe duck my grandma would always bake a cake for everyone! and I never decorated a tree because it was believed lt was a gift from baby jesus and he brought the presents and it was supposed to be the surprise we went back to my home and opened up more presents I always watched Home Alone on Christmas Eve! Christmas Day went to the church in the morning and after visit the cemetery and went after and visited with friends and family.
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄❤️
Happy Christmas Amy and Trilogy Fam!!! No, I don't live in the UK, but feck it! I'll say it anyway! LOL! *Hugs* ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Christmas crackers very popular in Canada! 😊
Charlie Brown Christmas. ❤ Silent night is my favorite.
I have left my real Christmas tree on on my 3 seasons porch until Mother’s Day. I have hearts for Valentine’s Day, st Patrick’s day decorations, Easter eggs, I kept it up for my mom, nieces and nephews. Always a lot of laughs at Mother’s Day dinner
YOU both ARE AMAZING
So I still have my tree up. Don’t judge me. Lol. It’s been a hard year. But my top must see movies at Christmas are:
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Grinch
A Christmas Carol (I have 5 different versions)
Miracle on 34th Street (2 versions)
The Santa Clause
BTW I accidentally found your channel some months back, I can’t remember how, but I recognized Ashton from his videos on phone Scammers!
Keep it up, guys!
I didn't put up a tree this year, but a creche.
It's still up 😲
What? Not Christmas Vacation?
I totally agree with Amy because I am Irish and all of the things she said we did in our house
My paternal grandparents were Irish and my mothers stepfather was English, and I was raised Catholic so a lot of this is familiar to me. As a kid it we were always told it was bad luck to have Christmas decorations up too early. December 8th has to do with when the angel told Mary she was pregnant, and January 6th is the end of the 12 days of Christmas and is the Orthodox Christmas. I was told that’s why we did those dates
What a delightful video! Santa always got a coke and cookies at my house ( probably due to the marketing dept at Coke).Turkey for Thanksgiving, ham for Christmas, or Enchiladas/chili or brisket. Its a Texas thing. MUST have tamales for Christmas.
I’m Canadian and Christmas crackers are hugeeee at least where I live. They show up in stores very early.
It happened on 5th Avenue . IS MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE
Ahahaha I had our tree up a whole year 2020 to 2021 Xmas 😃 end November we took down all ornaments cleaned them and put up the tree while revamping. In my home our Santa presents where never under the Xmas tree but at the bottom of our bed. We would wake up at 1/2/3 and be super excited and open our Santa presents right then and there. Running into each other’s room screaming Santa came! 😄😂. Waking up mom and dad😂 in the process. Then we after all the excitement and we where tired again we would go back to sleep and wake up to go downstairs to the Xmas tree and the presents under our tree where those of our Mom and dad. We would open our stockings and have a beautiful relaxing day until dinner/lunch and open the other presents.♥️
I put up the Christmas tree in October😂. I once took it down in July🤣🤣🤣
Amy, my dad was 'that' Santa for a year or 2!
Christmas vacation since a Christmas story are my musts for the season, but also an partial to the Muppet Christmas carol vs other versions. My favorite song is carol of the bells, but specifically the trans Siberian orchestra because it has a certain energy about it that other versions don't.
We have the Christmas Crackers up in Canada. Favourite Christmas movie is A Christmas Carol (1951 version) and in my family we have a steamed pudding called Carrot Pudding which is somewhat similar to Barmbrack. We used to go to Midnight Mass which I loved because it was done in Latin and the Christmas hymns were also sung in Latin. Beautiful experience.
Mine is the Reginald Owen version (1937?). I have to watch it every year. Also "Christmas in Connecticut" with Barbara Stanwyck is an absolute must see every year.
I put my tree up the day after thanksgiving and then leave it up til. January 12th. My birthday.
Dont think you mentioned it but you need to explain "The 12 Pubs Of Christmas". Its a rite of passage.
I did talk about it actually but ended up cutting it, the video is already too long 😅
You guys are so adorable.
I had the one gift of pj's before bed and then the next day you wake up dressed for photos lol...passed it along to my kids but Christmas pj's are sort of hard to find now for some reason so I changed it to ornaments that represent their year and they put them on the tree to show Santa
The kids love the ornaments and the following year decorating the tree is SO much fun because each of the ornaments have a story we enjoy sharing
This is awesome , I was raised in a Gaelic Irish American household. There are so many of these things have been mixed together in our family. We always go to Christmas Eve service (when our family got here, there was no catholic parish so they converted to Protestantism). We always sang don oíche úd i mbeithil, leanbh sa mháinséir, taladh chríosta, A oíche bheannaithe, and oíche ciúin on Christmas Eve after dinner. We always do turkey and ham for both thanksgiving and Christmas. We put the tree up in early November. We put a candle in the bay window (My Seanaí “great grandma” always said that it would lead Mary and Joseph to safety)
A friend of mine had her tree up all year round for several years
Christmas crackers have gained popularity in the States for a long time. They’ve been available at Costco, and other stores, for at least 5 years or more. Prior to that, I used to order them through a merchandise catalogue, then online.
I do the crackers. I’m from the US. Favorite movie is A year without a Santa clause.
I'm Irish and I've done all of these things
As the High Street and stores put up all their Christmas decorations at the end of November, all the kids start getting excited.
My daughter at 2 was no different. So in trying to calm her a little, we started to tell her that when the shops put the Decs went up, that meant that the Christmas Fairies are watching her. And if she's good, then they'll come in the night, and put the Christmas lights and decorations up at home. That way, when santa flies over the houses, he sees the lights and Decs and knows that the people there have been good.
Then usually on the first weekend of December, I would go up to my parents house, where we'd hidden the Xmas Dec's in their bedroom, and after my daughter had gone to bed, we'd put some Xmas music on, and put up all the Decs and lights in one night.
The next morning, before she would get up, we'd put all the lights on, ready for her to see, and wake her up. Her reaction was always the same the first few years. She would walk into the room, that the night before was normal, and now it looked like Santa's grotto! And we would hear a gasp, and in wonder, "Mummy! The fairies have been!"
Then the next night we'd go home, and my parents would stay the night at mine, and we'd put up all my Decs in one night, to surprise her all over again!
My favorite Christmas movie is "White Christmas"
Turkey for thanksgiving and ham for dinner.
Growing up we didn’t start decorating until the day after Thanksgiving, as an adult even though I don’t celebrate Christmas, it bothers me that Thanksgiving gets over-shadowed by Christmas.
I am just curioys; why don't you celebrate Christmas? We celebrate it because we as are Christian t all ontook n. We as re not into the big commercialization of Christmas and pushing things to buy, or even Santie. Though when our children were little we did have Santie come, but the importance was, we were celebrating Jesus' Birthday. And told them that is why Santie came. Before opening prezies we would sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. We stil! do sing it and pray and sing some carols. Jesus is the reason for tvhe season! Advertizing and people/businesses trying to make a lot of money and changing the whole meaning of Christmas makes me sick. Tell me what you think. ✝️🙏🏼🕊☘
6th January is traditionally the feast of the ephinany so this is the end of Christmas season . Nativity sets are put out and Christmas trees go down
Easter. You go mann
You pair need to watch Rare Exports - the most bizarre little Christmas movie ever!
Australia has borrowed much of the Christmas traditions from The UK due to our heritage, not too much Americanism has crept in. We do the crackers here and you forgot to mention Boxing Day which we eat left over Christmas dinner then and we have bbq for dinner Christmas and Boxing day. Also watch the Boxing Day cricket test match with a beer or two is traditional. Weird as it seems its hot weather here in Australia yet we still do the Christmas roast and all the trimmings There was the plum pudding with a five cent coin in it and we also do trifle and the Pavlova as dessert
Mrpuniverse She didn't forget boxing day because we call it st stephens day not boxing.The video is about christmas in the republic of ireland not the UK.
Christmas Crackers are a great tradition in Canada too!
you take the Christmas decorations down before or on the 6th because the 6th of January is old Christmas Day
Our family does Christmas breakfast instead of dinner.
That sounds so nice!!
In Canada, we have similar to Irish traditions
I love your top amy, where did you get it?
definitely "the holiday" . Oh, and Bridget Jones
Have you seen Adam who was on the late late toy show just gone?
my tree last year didn't go down until the 20th of july
So, favorite Xmas movies:
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sims)
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (Razzleberry Dressing), I still cry
Trapped in Paradise
Christmas with the Kranks
Miracle on 34th Street
It's A Wonderful Life (still cry when the squirrel climbs Uncle Billy's arm)
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Love Actually
Favorite Christmas songs:
Coventry Carol by Annie Lennox
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming from Light Jazz Christmas
Happiest Time of the Year (Andy Williams)
Holiday Season (Andy Williams)
For Unto Us A Child is Born (Handel)
& though not a favorite, I do like Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney
I hate christmas jumpers but I love yours.
Hello from Mayo
ENYA, ENYA AND ENYA
IF you still have a copy of the unedited stuff.. Outtakes?
I know what a christmas cracker is i always wanted to get them
Movie A Christmas Carol Staring George C. Scott and Song Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
Okay when she said oh that's titly Winx I had instant nostalgia as an American the game was something when I was a very small child I'm 47 so it was popular in the '50s and 60s and 70s. So it's not at all a game found nowadays in America but it did exist many many years ago.
You mean Tiddlywinks that’s the proper name. I don’t think any Irish kids would know either. Lol 😂
Miracle on 34th street!
I was a child in the 80s in ireland and we definitely didn't have christmas crackers and cranberry sauce thats all relatively new to christmas in Ireland. There more the british influence.
You should ask your parents, Christmas crackers were very popular years ago, 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s, maybe less so in the 1980s. And my family have been making their own cranberry sauce in Ireland for many generations. And we are definitely not British...
Aine 71 the cranberry sauce is newer about the 90s and its more of an american than a british thing.The crackers though have been around as long as i can remember and i am 50.Maybe some families didn't have it,i remember my cousins didn't what christmas pudding was and we didn't do the candle thing in our house either.
It's weird because santa is a thing here too but growing up i was never like told there is a santa claus. I always knew it was just a christmas thing but not an actual person.We would have school parties where some guy dressed as the santa clause and handed out candy and to be it was just a costume people used because thats what we did haha so when i got to adulthood i was like well.. why didn't i get to believe it was real, why did i know the harsh truth from literally the moment i knew anything?! haha the new generations now though have "santa" over on christmas eve, a neighbour or someone dressing up and they actually believe. But for whatever reason i was never made to believe it in the 80s and early 90's.
One year my mom gave me a sled in january and her story was. She was driving home from work and santas sleigh stopped her on the road and santa told her he found this hiding in his sleigh after Christmas and he had to give it to me. And he is sorry be gave it to me late
That was the day I knew santa was fake hahah
You two are so much fun, but I noticed that she looks at you but you rarely look at her when you are both talking. I understand that you are focusing on the camera.
Hi, how can you be Irish and speak of Christmas and not mention St Stephen's day!!! Wow!! A whole c et lebration, more goodies and another big meal, but usually that day you'd have some fruends for the dinner and goodies. And you didn't mention, Wrenning", and kids would go a ty ound with a wren and they go door to the door and sing simetimes, but all would have a little traditional poem they'd recite. and the people of the house would give them each a few p, for the wren. I know it's not done much anymore, but when my children were little in the '90s' kids were still doing it. I know it's still done in places. I don't care for the killing of the wren though and it is strangly a pre-Christian mythology, having to do with the king of the birds, the wren. Also, you didn't mention coroling, singing Christmas corols door to door and or in hospitals.. How could you miss that?? We live in Mayo. Don't know where you are from. Maybe they didn't do that where you are from. And where is that?Oh one more thing, here in Ireland Santa is called SANTIE or SANTY! God bless ye!! ✝️🙏🏼🕊☘
Its Santy Klaus round our way