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HOLIDAY TRADITIONS DIFFER across the globe, with variations of similar themes seen in distant countries.
As many families celebrate today with egg hunts and Simnel cake, we took a pictorial stroll through our Easter Sunday photograph archives and came up with some gems.
Although many aspects of the celebrations remain happily unchanged (read: chocolate), there are some motifs that we are quite glad to have left behind. See: the Easter bonnet.
Note: We’ve included some of the original photo captions for an authentic experience. Enjoy!
Famous New Yorker John D. Rockefeller Junior he gets ready for a stroll along Fifth Avenue in New York, all set for the Easter Sunday Parade on 31 March 1929. (AP Photo)
More than 30,000 Americans gathered at sunrise on Easter Sunday, 17 April 1938 in the famous Hollywood Bowl. The white cross visible in the image is formed by 300 people. (AP Photo)
Academy Award Winner Joan Crawford and her seven-year-old daughter Christina wear identical bonnets in Los Angeles on 17 April 1946. The initial photo caption read: "Clustered over the pink straw brims are pink sweet peas, caught at the crown with perky turquoise bows." Perky! (AP Photo)
Ten-month old quads, Frances, Jennifer, Elizabeth and Bridget Good meet chicks for the first time on Easter Sunday 1949. The Goods were the first quads born by Caesarean section and became media darlings in the UK. (PA Archive)
Growing up: the Good quads from Bristol just a year later with some chocolate eggs. (Image: PA Archive)
Original caption: "The latest thing in Easter bonnets is shown by Lulu, star attraction at the Bloomington Zoo, Illinois, who had this expression when she posed for photographer 28 March 1959." (AP Photo)
This 1961 child is showing us all what we should be doing today. (Topham/PA Images)
Original caption: "Mother love, Bassett hound style, takes on all comers. These two ducklings, leftover from Easters, at the home of Susan Norris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Norris, are constant companions of her sleepy-eyed, long-eared hours named Henrietta in Miami, Florida, 13 April 1961. The ears are especially handy during cool weather." (AP Photo)
No, that's not an Irish model from back in the day. It is French soprano Mathe Altery tasting her own-recipe Easter eggs on 19 April 1962 in Paris. (AP Photo)
But they did make models hold stuff they really didn't want to hold back in the day too, seemingly. Don't think this one was shot on Grafton Street though. (Barratts/S&G Barratts/Empics Archive)
President John F. Kennedy and family pose outside the Palm Beach home of the president's father after a private Easter Service 14 April 1963. From left are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, three-year-old John Jr, President Kennedy and five-year-old Caroline. (AP Photo)
Easter Sunday massgoers leave St. Patrick's Cathedral to join the throngs already parading on New York City's Fifth Avenue in the traditional Easter Parade on 18 April 1965. Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic to "permit the paraders to show off colourful spring bonnets and frocks and window shop without interference". (AP Photo/John Lindsay)
Original caption: All decked out in Easter Finery, these French poodles take part in the Easter parade on Fifth Avenue in New York. Their outfits include light blue capes and hats, accented with jewelled collars. The poodles, Petite Amour, left, and Cha Cha, are owned by Mrs. Lilly Ellmer of New York City. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
Original caption: Glamorous Gabor Sisters, Zsa Zsa, left, and Eva, right, flank their mother, Jolie Gabor, as they give a preview of the bonnets they'll be wearing on Easter. Preview was in the costume jewellery shop of Mama Gabor in New York on 30 March 1966. Mama Gabor is due to get three new sons-in-law on each of the next three Sundays. Magda Gabor, the third of the sisters, will marry Arthur Gallucci, a long island constructor, on Easter Sunday. The following Sunday Eva will marry Dr. John Williams of Beverly Hills, California, in her mother's Westport, Conneticut, home. Zsa Zsa will marry Hal B. Hayes, a Los Angeles constructor, on the third Sunday. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)
Coco the Clown places a floral Easter bonnet on Targa's head in preparation for a New York parade on 5 April. (AP Photo)
Bunny-eared Rockettes relax during rehearsals of their Easter show. The Rockettes Easter and Christmas shows were highlights of New York's Music Hall and thousands lined up to get into the theatre before show time. (AP Photo)
The caption from this photo of Tricia Nixon said the White House staffer in the bunny costume wished to remain anonymous. Understandable. The White House bunny became quite the tradition in DC.
Greek Premier Georgios Papadopoulos, left, dances with Evzonos Royalal Guards, a custom within the traditional Easter egg cracking ceremony during a visit to military units near Athens on 9 April 1972. (AP Photo)
As President Jimmy Carter and Mrs Rosalynn Carter were leaving the White House for a weekend at Camp David the presidential retreat the Easter bunny jumped out of the bushes on South Lawn and greeted them in Washington on 24 March 1978. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)
Original caption: Mrs Margaret Thatcher dressed for industry as she tries her hand at packing Easter eggs at Cadbury's Bournville factory. The Tory leader visited the factory as part of her Midlands electioneering tour.
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What a pity! The political class and the many chancers in public life have no one left who will challenge them. Time to circle the wagons.
As television in ireland continues to go down the road of the bland leading the bland,I think it’s safe to say we will won’t see his likes of Vincent anytime soon. Unless Gene Kerrigan fancies turning his hand to TV?
Vincent was the only one to ask the right questions and stick it to politicians and the like. Never one to be fobbed off. Well done
A cantankerous contrary old git. Never though he got the best out of his guests because they were constantly on edge with him.
@mickmc: like many of us he had a total aversion to the bullsh*t most politicians and media feed us with on a daily basis.
@mickmc: Which is to say what? He upset the politicians who are used to being given a verbal lap dance by the likes of Miriam O’Callaghan or Pat the plank???
@Martin Critten: Yes that’s true but I’m not sure his style of interviewing cut through it either. Sometimes you have to be clever about these things and tease the issue out unknowns to the interviewee.
@mickmc: Put your money where your mouth is and apply to replace him, mick
@Tony Skillington: If he was doing his job properly he wouldn’t be there to upset anyone, just give sensible debate to the issues of the day. VB was only interested in himself getting points across.
@mickmc: hi joan !
@Chris Kirk: I disagree completely, Chris. It was VB’s job to hold these people accountable, not just to give them another platform like they already had on RTE. If he wasn’t grilling them and making them squirm (knowing what we now know about the level of corruption in government), then he wasn’t doing his job. It was a very valuable service he provided in tandem with exemplary journalistic skills.
It was his job to expose BS. If he never upset anyone, the whole program would’ve been pointless.
@Joe Phillips: he held no one to account, he was making tv, nothing more nothing less. It was mildly entertaining but nothing more.
Listening to you would would swear it was the public accounts committee he was running.
@james connolly: no offence, james, but you’re not a reasonable commentator and I don’t know how to talk to you without paper and crayons.
@Joe Phillips: Try balloons and buckets of confetti , he seems to like clowns .
@Chris Kirk: RTE have been giving ‘sensible debates’ for 30 years and are frightened of upsetting the hand that feeds them. VB while acerbic in his questioning at times, does what any good journalist should do…shake up the political elite and cut through the horse $h1t that RTE seem only too happy to dole out. He is a breath of fresh air in public broadcasting and I applaud him for being so.
@Joe Phillips: Did I in any way suggest I had the knowledge or the skill to do his job. You don’t have to be good at a job to recognise when someone else is doing a equally bad job too. I don’t think I ever make it as a premier league footballer at this stage, but that doesn’t say I wouldn’t recognise a bad one when I’d see him.
Thanks Vinny for making politics interesting and being our cat among the pigeons.
TheJournal.ie, how many articles have you published on this guy’s last show? I’m not sure you’ve got the finger on the pulse of the nation on this one.
Yes, acknowledged it but you’re milking a very average news story over the past three days.
Why did Glenda feel the need to capture the choir on her smartphone? Could she not have merely recorded the bleedin’ show? Yours, etc.
@shouldweallbe: I agree! It just seems to be an automatic reaction for so many. They miss the actual core of what’s happening while trying to get a balanced photo on the phone! But what I couldn’t take my eyes off was Mary Lou smiling! She looked so different and quite lovely!!!!
I didn’t bother watching it after his vomit inducing lovefest with the Leo the previous night.
@Dante Marquinhos: That’ll show him who’s boss!
@Honeybadger197:Oh I’d say you showed yourself who’s boss watching Leo the other night. That’s the thing about you Blueshirts, were other political supporters just follow their respective parties, you Blueshirts treat them like they are a boyband and you are a bunch of 14 year old girls with a crush.
Extremely bizarre and disturbing behaviour from supporters of a political party.
@Dante Marquinhos: Dry your eyes Dante. I’m sure in time you’ll forgive Vincent for talking to a Taoiseach and making you all upset and nauseous. I hope this helps x
http://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-stop-vomiting-remedies
@Dante Marquinhos: Talks about lovefest between presenter and politician, talks about sexual infatuation with politicians regularly… Methinks the Dante doth protest too much! Tell me Dante, how did this predilection for politicians first present itself?
@Dante Marquinhos: “Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions. Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions ontosomeone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings”
Its not your fault Dante. Its not your fault.
@Honeybadger197: Good, the first step is admitting you have a problem. Well done Honey, you’re on the road to recovery. Best of luck!
@Dante Marquinhos: Yes, would you please admit you have a problem.
@Dante Marquinhos: Few things in life as funny as a triggered shinnerbot. You never disappoint.
@Dante Marquinhos: Yep , disappointed with that one myself , perhaps if Vincent will do “one offs” in the future he can do a real interview with this smarmy git
The underclasses though VB shows was about politics, everyone else saw it for the entertainment show it was.
@james connolly: VB having a laugh at everyone elses expense
@Chris Kirk: exactly.
#gutted
About as politically astute as my dead hamster, give me Andrew Marr and Andrew Neil any day of the week.
I hope he still pops up on TV3 or somewhere else from time to time. It would help with the DTs!
I liked his no nonsense couldn’t give a flying f*ck who you are approach.
So apart from Gene Kerrigan what other journalist do we have that has the balls to take on the establishment .(Sorry ladies not meant to be a misogynist comment )
Good riddance. A rude belligerent individual with no redeeming features. His interruptions made Cathal Mc Coille look like an amateur.
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