Show ODD IRISH MARRIAGE CUSTOMS matchmaking done by parents of brid and groom shrove tuesday weddings in ireland are exceedingly common and sometimes among the peasantry they are celebrated in strange circum stances there Is a story of a peasant girl being argued out of bed on the night of shrove tuesday to be married befaro midnight to a well to do irish australasian whom she bad never seen though he was 1 to her parents who made tte match it turned out a happy the young people usually take the matter philosophically believing that their parents know best how to make then happy this anecdote Is told of a tipperary girl biddy asked her friend are ye coln off this musha I 1 don t know that said dildy but they re on me up atliss meaning that matchmaking in progress another story re lates to a number of weddings taking place in a munster church on shrove tuesday an where s yer intended joe one gwain was asked be gob mick I 1 coulden couldn t tell ye but I 1 believe she a up there amongst the feathers and ribbons in the front row ot sates he learned who she was when the names were called out |