The Monday following St. Brigid's feast day on 1st of February was declared a new annual public holiday in 2023, the first women in Ireland to be recognised with one. St. Brigid's Day also marks ...

KILDARE, Ireland (AP) — St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback. St. Brigid of Kildare, a younger ...

Forget St Patrick’s Day – here’s why you should head to Ireland for St Brigid’s Day instead With crowded celebrations of Ireland’s patron saint no longer appealing to her, Nicola Brady ...

St Patrick, meanwhile, is the patron saint of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic. This just about explains his inclusion in a mosaic finished in 1923, the year after most of Ireland got its ...

St. Brigid was born in the fifth century in Faughart, County Louth. Her feast day is on Feb. 1 and folk history says she also died on that day.

Arriving at St Brigid’s Parish Church in Kildare town she might feel a little thrill at seeing her name in lights, as it were. Inside she might be a little unsettled to see a piece of her own ...

But it's St. Brigid's Irish birth that makes the celebration so meaningful for William Beers, the vice-president of the Irish Canadian Cultural Association of New Brunswick, Moncton chapter.

The Monday following St. Brigid's feast day on 1st of February was declared a new annual public holiday in 2023, the first women in Ireland to be recognised with one. St. Brigid's Day also marks ...