{"id":230702,"date":"2026-01-06T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:36:09","slug":"the-true-origins-of-nollaig-na-mban-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230702\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Origins Of Nollaig na mBan In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 6 January 2026 15:52\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/61b76dc6489e4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Nollaig na mBan is being celebrated today.\n        <\/p>\n<p>In most places in Ireland, Nollaig na mBan is a recent invention, and not the &#8220;fad\u00f3 fad\u00f3&#8221; historic convention many people believe it is.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to artist and folklorist Micheal Fortune, who believes the history of Little Christmas has been distorted in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>Nollaig na mBan has been long celebrated in places like Cork and Kerry, but is only a recent development elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Micheal Fortune of folklore.ie says people in the Midlands meanwhile have been marking the day in a completely different way:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 6 January 2026 15:52 Nollaig na mBan is being celebrated today. In most places in Ireland, Nollaig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-230702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}