Happy Thanksgiving, IrishCentral readers! To celebrate, we've compiled some of the very best Irish blessings, traditions, toasts, and sayings for you to share with your loved ones this Thanksgiving.

Each month we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story. With all these fantastic recommendations we’ve ...

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‘I am not one to say no to a blessing’ says Geoffrey Grigson in his poem on the burial of Auden, ‘Occasion in Westminster Abbey’. Yet the title of his recently collected essays and reviews, Blessings, ...

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After the prayer of blessing, the celebrant sprinkles those present with holy water, as a suitable song is sung; as circumstances suggest, he may first say the following words: ...

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The occasion provides a special opportunity for a gathering of the members of the community to mark the joyful event and to thank God, from whom all blessings come, for the gift of a new home.