Talk:Saint John's Eve/Archive 1

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Merge with Midsummer? --Troels Nybo 18:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Catalonia, Basque Country and Galicia are not Spain
Separate from the section about Spain the parts that aren't from Spain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.152.246.175 (talk) 12:25, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Standard dates for the June Solstice?
Referring to the date(s) for the June Solstice, the article was stating: "which technically can occur anywhere between June 20 - 26th." - This is erroneous as stated. In the Gregorian calendar, in effect for most of Europe from 1582 CE and later in the UK and American colonies since 1752 CE, the June solstice falls on June 21st or otherwise on the 20th for persons living in Britain. The correction of the drifting of the calendar away from the astronomically fixed moments of the solstices and equinoxes was the very reason for the Gregorian reform (so that the date of Easter could be reliably calculated by the Church). In the 1752 reform in Britain, the old Julian calendar was 11 days off, which required the change made wherein the 11:59 PM September 2, 1752 was followed by 12:00 AM September 14, 1752. In the Old Sytle (O.S.) vs. New Style (N.S.) date keeping confusion which followed, perhaps a wider spread of dates for when the June Solstice ocurred could have been muddled for a while in the local records. On the new Gregorian calendar though it would have been one of the two adjacent dates allowed by the leap year and century year correction in effect.

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st. johns eve, ireland 19th century?
Just wanted to add something on the topic of st.johns eve/midsummer... my father was born in 1945 in a rural area in Ireland and in his childhood, st. johns eve, the 23rd of june, was still celebrated by bonfires every night of his childhood...I was myself born on the 23rd of june in dublin and despite the urbanness of it all everyone in his family still mentions to me, every birthday(as if I have not heard it before 27 times) that I was born on st. johns eve and that that is somehow important...he was also much delighted upon seeing it celebrated one year in lisbon, portugal on the same evening.... possibly a reason to mention it in a more contemporary irish context rather than confining it to the 19th century

Why has this got an "Outside USA" section?
The section above is almost entirely about Ireland.GavinZac (talk) 21:32, 23 June 2009 (UTC) Heard of Northern European peoples Leaping over small fires on midsummers eve ? Why? Article diod not mention Thanks, dated PMWed6240921stcentdecdeEAJSWORDINHAND (talk) 22:02, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Ireland?
Why is this article part of the wikiproject on Ireland? And why is there a focus on Ireland? St John's Eve is celebrated in many countries with equal cultural significance. I think that the focus on Ireland should be removed and the wikiproject tag deleted.Jimjamjak (talk) 08:37, 27 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I suspect it was because this article was originally created with content only dealing with Ireland, and then slowly has been expanded to include the other countries that celebrate this day as well. But I do agree that in its current state it does seem extremely odd that the article focuses on Ireland in a way that makes it look like it has spread from this country to the others, which of course is not true. --Saddhiyama (talk) 23:40, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Significance of the fires
This article would greatly benefit from a section about the significance of the fires lit during the celebrations of Saint John's Eve and how they came to be associated with this day. Amqui (talk) 06:25, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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