Talk:Wren Day

Merge Wren Day and Wrenboys articles?

Support. The two articles contain much overlapping, common text. There is a redundancy committed by having both articles. I propose that Wren Day is the higher concept so any useful detail from the subsidiary Wrenboys article should be incorporated into the Wren Day article, with the Wrenboy entry redefined as a redirection page pointing to Wren Day. 174.16.28.60 (talk) 21:54, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Date

Wren day isn't always December 26th. If The 26th is a Sunday, Wren Day is celebrated the following day, December 27th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.138.101 (talk) 17:21, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Not Welsh.

There is no valid source to say Wren Days are celebrated traditionally in Wales (though as in other countries such as France there are Wren traditions, some including the act of catching them, such as in Pmebrokeshire where it is traditional on the Twelfth Day which is the 6th of January and NOT the 26th of December) but alas no specific "Wren day" nor a tradition associated with the 26th of December [1]. The only sources I have found are like this one [2] which is from Wikipedia. I know it is popular to see all Celtic peoples as the same with identical customs and traditions but this isn't the case. We only have a name for it in Irish (and English) but not Welsh and no valid sources. The only places that we can source are Ireland. On the Isle of Man it has been reported that a similar custom was performed on New Years Day however[3]. Sigurd Dragon Slayer (talk) 21:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Wren song; killing a wren

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (I don't know which of them is speaking) report literally hunting the wren in their childhood. I've added a paragraph with the details to #Songs and linked to it from #History. --Thnidu (talk) 01:42, 5 May 2013 (UTC)