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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 1, 2019 14:03:32 GMT
I'm getting more and more interested in oral culture of every kind. I'm interested in parlour games especially-- charades, blind man's bluff, hangman, stuff like that. I'm wondering to what extent they are still played, which were more popular in Ireland, regional variations, childhood experiences, etc. Did people play these much in their earlier years? Do you play them now?
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Post by Séamus on Oct 2, 2019 11:34:36 GMT
I'm getting more and more interested in oral culture of every kind. I'm interested in parlour games especially-- charades, blind man's bluff, hangman, stuff like that. I'm wondering to what extent they are still played, which were more popular in Ireland, regional variations, childhood experiences, etc. Did people play these much in their earlier years? Do you play them now? I saw an Australian comic-strip today called Ginger Meggs where young Ginger is handed a pack of cards and asked to play- he gets confused and enquires where the ON button is. It's amazing when you read Austen or Bronte's Jane Eyre and realise how thrilled even the wealthy were then to take their recreations in things like those you mention. Something called Loo seemed immensely popular. And we still did some of those things when I was young, but whenever I mimed I was told that all I resembled was 'an eejit' |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 2, 2019 12:34:58 GMT
I'm getting more and more interested in oral culture of every kind. I'm interested in parlour games especially-- charades, blind man's bluff, hangman, stuff like that. I'm wondering to what extent they are still played, which were more popular in Ireland, regional variations, childhood experiences, etc. Did people play these much in their earlier years? Do you play them now? I saw an Australian comic-strip today called Ginger Meggs where young Ginger is handed a pack of cards and asked to play- he gets confused and enquires where the ON button is. It's amazing when you read Austen or Bronte's Jane Eyre and realise how thrilled even the wealthy were then to take their recreations in things like those you mention. Something called Loo seemed immensely popular. And we still did some of those things when I was young, but whenever I mimed I was told that all I resembled was 'an eejit' I can see that many of those recreations were rather trivial in themselves, but I still value them, for some reason. |
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