Show ODD IRISH irisi MARRIAGE CUSTOMS matchmaking done by parents of bride and groom shrove tuesday weddings in ireland are exceedingly common and sometimes among the peasantry they are celebrated in ili circumstances there is a story of a young peasant girl being aroused out of bed on the night of shrove tuesday to be mairlen before midnight to a vel todo irish australasian horn nhom she had never aen seen though he waa wa known know n to lier her parents aho who vho made the match it turned out a happy mair lage the young people usually take the matter philosophically believing that their parents know best how to make them happy this anecdote ia is told of a tipperary girl biddy asked her friend are ye goin off oft this shrof ausna I 1 dont know that said I 1 dy but on mo me upstairs meaning mean frig that matchmaking wa in progress another story relates to a number of weddings taking place in a munster TAun ster church on shrove tuesday an w heres er intended joe ono one swain was asked be gob mick I 1 tell ye e but I 1 believe up there amongst the feathers fea theis and ribbons in the front row of sates he learned who she was when the name were vere called out |