Artist and folklorist Michael Fortune explores the folklore and customs surrounding St. Brigid's Day, which takes place on February 1st, complete with the voices and stories of people from all over ...

Analysis: The most common custom associated with St Brigid's Day is still to make a cross on the final night of January St Brigid's Day has been long celebrated in Ireland as a religious and cultural ...

Sir, – Having witnessed the delight of all kinds of everybody engaged in the making of St Brigid’s crosses and taken part in these open-air workshops last weekend, with the evident public enthusiasm ...

Ireland’s newest bank holiday is upon us, and more importantly, it coincides with the end of January. Finally. Which one? There are two, kind of. St Brigid of Kildare is one of Ireland’s three ...

The holiday celebrating this famous Irish figure is a lot older than St. Patrick's Day.

Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) has announced a number of events taking place at its locations nationwide to celebrate St. Brigid. February 1 marks the celebration of Lá Fhéile Bríde. This was ...

St Brigid's holy wells are scattered across the country, with sacred sites hidden in urban and rural areas alike. St Brigid, one of Ireland's patron saints, has had a yearly public holiday in her ...

Traditions to celebrate St Brigid's as Ireland's patroness saint began centuries ago ...

St. Brigid's Day sits at the gentle hinge between winter and spring and is a lovely moment to try a handful of Irish words. With a few easy phrases, you can join rituals, wish friends well, and name ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carmel Hayes and her granddaughter Mya holding a St Brigid's cross [BBC] For more than 20 years Carmel Hayes has been visiting St ...

Kim Curran, author of Brigid, is speaking to me over Zoom and doing a stellar job of humanising Ireland’s only female patron saint, who, it appears, had a zero-tolerance streak. “A leper she heals isn ...

A new exhibition on St Brigid is now on display in the County Museum A new exhibition celebrating the life and lasting influence of St Brigid has opened in the Louth County Museum in Dundalk. The ...