St. Stephen's Day is celebrated in Ireland in a different
way, but is similar to Boxing Day in that it also has to do with the
solicitation of money. Young men is extravagant dress, sometimes wearing
masks, parade noisily through the st reets in the Wren Boys' Procession.
They carry long pole on top of which is attached a holly bush. The bush
supposedly contains a captured wren, and for whose sake the young men beg
for money.
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