The top ten Irish Christmas traditions that make the season - PHOTOS

Pure fantasy based on the kind of Tea Towel version of Ireland that Plastic Paddies like to buy in gift shops in Kerry.

A corpse is a dead person. Perhaps you mean Marine Corps?

I attended midnight mass a few times as a child in Ireland in the 1950s. The next time I tried to enter a church befor midnight was at Camp Lejune, N.C. in the '60s, but I couldn't get anywhere near the door because of the crowds. That Christmas there were creches on display all over the Marine Corpse base, and we all called Christmas by its proper name; few marines referred to the Holy Season by its disparaging term, "the holiday".