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By *ilder OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin

Has anyone any idea why today is known as boxing day in the UK? Is it because people are d*unk and frustrated with their families by the time St Stephens day comes around and fights start?....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Something to do with servants getting gifts or something like that...Google will have all the knowledge you require

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By *ub_leitrim_guyMan
over a year ago

Out in the sticks


"Something to do with servants getting gifts or something like that...Google will have all the knowledge you require"

Yes.. servants were given the Xmas day leftovers as gifts!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France.

It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland.

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From Wikipedia

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By *weetcplCouple
over a year ago

Central

Took the words out of my mouth

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By *ceryMan
over a year ago

Malahide & Waterford


"Took the words out of my mouth "

Meatloaf. Left overs....

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By *ilder OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin

Well I never! I always thought it was to do with fighting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr69: (with absolute honesty) Who is St. Stephen? Your name is just as foreign to us...

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By *harlie141r42Man
over a year ago

galway


"..

Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France.

It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland.

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From Wikipedia"

Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day?

In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day?

In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. "

Mr69: no.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"..

Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France.

It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland.

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From Wikipedia

Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day?

In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. "

No, its the day after Christmad Day. the bank holiday would be on the Monday if Saturday was Christmas Day

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By *ordjeffMan
over a year ago

around and about ,as travel.

Been over here 10 years now I still call it boxing day. Old habits die hard

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Been over here 10 years now I still call it boxing day. Old habits die hard"

Same here

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By *harlie141r42Man
over a year ago

galway


"..

Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France.

It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland.

..

From Wikipedia

Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day?

In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday.

No, its the day after Christmad Day. the bank holiday would be on the Monday if Saturday was Christmas Day"

The day after Christmas Day is St. Stephens Day, regardless of which day of the week it falls on.

When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, the bank holiday Monday (the first working day after Christmas Day) is then Boxing Day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I disagree - as St Stephens Day and Boxing Day are the same thing

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By *harlie141r42Man
over a year ago

galway


"I disagree - as St Stephens Day and Boxing Day are the same thing"

Most years they are on the same day, but the definition of Boxing Day is the first working day after Christmas Day. When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, this means Boxing Day is on the Monday, with Stephens Day on the Sunday.

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