Apart from Christmas and St. Patrick's Day, Easter is the most important religious holiday in Ireland's calendar. Here are some of the ancient Irish Easter traditions.
Hot cross buns are perhaps the strangest of the Lenten food customs as they are sweet rolls that are traditionally eaten on the most important fast of all, Good Friday.
Painting and smashing eggs and dreaming of chocolate mean Easter is second only to Christmas. But we're not too happy about a 6ft magic rabbit coming down the chimney!
Ireland of the 1960s was a very strange place. The power of the church was absolute, never more so than in Holy Week and the celebration of Easter was far from a celebration.
