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Looking back through ancient Irish history, it is said that the tradition began in 5th century Ireland when St. Brigid of Kildare bitterly complained to St. Patrick that women had to wait far too ...

Revered relics of St Brigid are coming back to Co Kildare after nearly a millennium. St Brigid, the mother saint of Ireland, is one of the country's three national saints along with St Patrick and ...

One of those is in County Kildare, where St Brigid is credited with founding a monastery that became one of the most powerful sites in early Christian Ireland. No mean feat for an early medieval ...

Ireland elevates St. Brigid alongside St. Patrick, reclaiming its forgotten female saint and marking a dramatic shift from ...

Approximately 10,000 participants in 125 units marched in this year's parade, making their way through sun and shade to the ...

"St. Brigid of Kildare is particularly associated with light and hope and peace. In including the Saint Brigid/Imbolc public holiday as one of the official days our National Flag is flown ...

This year, they are honoring the life of St. Brigid, the patroness saint of Ireland. She founded the Abbey of Kildare, where a perpetual flame was kept burning for centuries. Her feast day was ...