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The Gaelic calendar (also known as the Irish calendar) is a pre-Christian Celtic system of timekeeping used during Ireland's Gaelic era and still in popular use today to define the beginning and length of the day, the week, the month, the seasons, quarter days, and festivals. The Gaelic calendar does not observe the astronomical seasons that begin in the Northern Hemisphere on the equinoxes and solstices, or the meteorological seasons that begin on March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1. Rather, the middle of the seasons in the Gaelic calendar fall around the solstices and equinoxes. As a result, for example, midsummer falls on the summer solstice. The beginnings of the seasons are roughly the halfway points between solstice and equinox: The Celtic year began on 1 November.
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Yes, even though the climate has gone a bit strange in the last few years, the Irish calendar still makes perfect sense when it comes to farming and gardening...And that Lúnasa début album is a masterpiece.
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