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Icy North Started conversation Dec 4, 2008
Good luck with the performance! 
I know this piece well, as my in-laws are all choristers and sing Messiah in Bath.
There's a British (English?) tradition that the audience have to stand up during the Hallelujah Chorus, after one king was moved to do so. Does this happen in Ireland?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Dec 4, 2008
This tradition exists in Ireland too.
I'm surprised that the rabid republicans didn't manage to ban it, but I think the tradition of singing Messiah was carried on in Ireland by a different part of the community from the part who worked hard to remove every reference to king or royal. There are still Union Flags flying in St Patrick's, after all.
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