Which festival laid the foundation for the celebration of Halloween?

Actually the tradition of carving pumpkins also came from Ireland- we carved turnips. Pumpkins are just readily available in the US.

Deirdre Quinn, This David Wilkes is totally wrong - and not for the first time. Samhain was celebrated by Celts throughout Britain - not just in Ireland. The Scots also took their tradition over to America with them - including the name as Halloween is Scots for All Hallows Eve!

but it was celebrated by the Celts, Briton's and Anglo Saxons throughout the British Isles so not an exclusively Irish festival.

it was not just Irish Celts it was all Celts. especially the Scots. who were carving turnips before the Americans carved pumpkins

Trick-or-treating door to door by little kids in costumes is alive and well and living in Canada, not just the U.S.A. Most often, the youngest children are accompanied by a parent.

KittyA9, as if I needed another reason to love Halloween!

Jack, the famine was restricted to the potato crop, other crops were for export to England. The English landlords did not help the Irish by sharing those crops.

Player #41118449, “your mom” was Irish, no need for “you’re” in this sentence😑

I had an aunt that used to say happy halloweenie

There was no famine. Plenty of food in Ireland but the English exported it and let the people die of hunger.

check your dates

Player #24220210, samhain is November in Irish

Samhain is also the Irish word for the month of October still in use...