Bonfires, Barm Brack and bobbing for apples

Halloween, when I was a child in the 1950s was a night for bonfires, fireworks and fancy dress, bobbing for apples floating in water, or trying to bite an apple hanging on a string. No hands! And barmbrack, báirín breac (speckled loaf) ​a traditional loaf with dried fruit and spices, eaten all year round but especially at at Halloween when a ring and a coin are hidden inside it.  If you got the ring you’d get married, if  you got the coin you'd be rich.