Nollaig na mBan

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Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan: How the meaning of January 6 ... (Independent.ie)

Marking the official end to Christmas festivities, January 6 sees Irish tradition celebrate the women of Ireland with Nollaig na mBan, translating to ...

For example, The Irish Writers’ Centre run an annual event marking the occasion, celebrating women writers worldwide, with the theme of this year’s night marked as “Home”. The day focuses on scheduling festivities with friends and gathering for brunch. A smaller occasion and celebrated less throughout Ireland in modern society, a number of counties still pride themselves on the tradition, such as Kerry and Cork.

5 events happening in Dublin for Nollaig na mBan this year (Lovin Dublin)

Nollaig na mBan, or Women's Christmas is an age old Irish tradition, and there are a number of events happening in Dublin to mark the occasion.

The Irish Writers Centre will host a night of readings, music and fun in celebration of women writers worldwide at their annual Nollaig na mBan event, MC'd by Sinéad Gleeson and with performances from Louise Nealon, Suad Aldarra, Claire Kilroy and more. The beloved Rialto boozer are hosting a special Nollaig na mBan event with talks, comedy, music and film, all in aid of Daisyhouse - the charity supporting women out of homelessness. The event is in aid of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, who work tirelessly to prevent the harm and heal the trauma of sexual violence.

What will your Nollaig na mBan look like? - WicklowNews (WicklowNews.Net)

Nollaig na mBan or Women's Christmas as it translates is traditonally the day when women enjoy a day of pampering while the menfolk take over the household.

A 30 minute recital brought to you by Harpists from Bray Comhaltas and your local Library. Observed in many other countries as The Twelfth night, Little Christmas or the Feast of the Epiphany. Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas as it translates is traditonally the day when women enjoy a day of pampering while the menfolk take over the household chores.

Nollaig na mBan celebration in Mayo town | Connaught Telegraph (Connaught Telegraph)

For for the first time since January 2019, a Mayo museum is ready to officially celebrate Nollaig na mBan to round off Christmas.

The Jackie Clarke Collection is located at Pearse Street, Ballina (entrance at the side of the building on Walsh Street). Tuesday to Saturday and entrance is free. In fact, everyone is invited (and yes, that includes men!) to join the Jackie Clarke Collection and Ballina Costume Company for a cuppa and a chat, with a couple of Christmas tunes thrown in to round off the festive season.

What is Nollaig na mBan? Ways To Celebrate The Holiday Nationwide (Extra.ie)

Nollaig na mBan goes by many names; Women's Christmas, Little Christmas, the Feast of the Epiphany, and generally signifies the end of the festive season.

How can I celebrate Nollaig na mBan? Do we still celebrate Nollaig na mBan? What is Nollaig na mBan? All this being said, what is Nollaig na mBan? However in Ireland, it is known as Nollaig na mBan, or Women's Christmas, and was traditionally a day where the women of the home were given a break after the busy festive season. Nollaig na mBan goes by many names; Women’s Christmas, Little Christmas, the Feast of the Epiphany, and generally signifies the end of the festive season.

Poll: Do you celebrate Nollaig na mBan? (thejournal.ie)

Nollaig na mBan is a traditional day for women to relax after a busy Christmas period.

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Nollaig na mBan: inspiring women from rural Ireland (Irish Farmers Journal)

Women in farming, business and rural enterprise are featured in the pages of the Irish Farmers Journal and Irish Country Living every week, so today, on Nollaig ...

[current Macra national chair](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/my-farming-week-caroline-o-keeffe-lyre-banteer-co-cork-738726). [outback, rural Ireland](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/one-time-i-dropped-my-pliers-and-a-brown-snake-was-at-my-feet-737520) and balancing working in transport with camogie training. [running your own company](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/becoming-your-own-boss-737498). [special sanctuary](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farming-and-food-meets-art-and-community-at-the-barna-way-702781) where their love of nature meets their commitment to community and art. [wouldn't see her career any other way](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/my-farming-week-denise-rafferty-killymarran-ballinode-co-monaghan-728051). [build a new life and business](https://www.farmersjournal.ie/finding-her-way-home-to-sage-stone-730808) with Sage & Stone café.

Women have come a long way since Nollaig na mBan of 50 years ago (The Irish Times)

In 1973, contraception and divorce were illegal but marital rape was not, and if you were married you were barred from entering the workforce.

EU accession in 1973 obliged the government of the day to lift the marriage bar. For the women, it was a chance to celebrate each other, the achievement of getting Christmas done, and indeed the achievement of keeping the family and the home going all year round. A full 27 years later, a definition of sexual consent finally entered the legal lexicon. Though the tradition had been dying out somewhat, in recent years it has enjoyed a revival. From the men’s point of view, it was a small acknowledgment of the huge effort women put into making Christmas happen. This January 6th, people across the country are celebrating a tradition unique to Ireland: Nollaig na mBan, or Women’s Christmas.

A day off for women: Nollaig na mBan (RTE)

If you've taken down your decorations and are feeling bereft or if you're clinging onto that festive feeling, here's why we celebrate Nollaig na mBan or ...

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Reporter Tom Mc Guire describes this tradition as a 'time of togetherness, a winding down, rather than a cold turkey, after Chistmas'. This isn't a new phenomenon, but its significance is being re-evaluated as a day for women to kick back and be appreciated.

Remembering Eavan Boland on Nollaig na mBan - a leading ... (The Irish Times)

To mark Nollaig na mBan, Alan Hayes salutes the life and legacy of the poet and feminist pioneer.

Now Irish writing is a more diverse and open space, for both women and men, because of the truly groundbreaking and perilous work started in the 1970s by visionaries such as Eavan Boland. The vast array of Irish women writers today, reaching international heights, owe a debt of gratitude to Eavan and her sisters for their radical work revolutionising Irish writing and the literary scene. I built up a relationship with colleagues at the IWP and Iowa City Unesco City of Literature (a sister organisation to Dublin Unesco City of Literature, of which I was a co-founder) and suggested we jointly publish an anthology of Irish writers in Iowa. Eavan Boland and Arlen House had demonstrated that a large interest and market existed in the work of dead Irish women writers, to many people’s surprise. At our last face-to-face meeting, in London, I told Eavan that I had bought the rights to Kate O’Brien’s rarest novel (Pray for the Wanderer) and would be reviving her Arlen Classic Literature series. That is the space and the culture which Eavan Boland and her sister feminists subverted and exploded. Years later, after she discovered that the Arts Council was refusing to fund the press, she suggested an artistic auction, where she offered to draw visual representations of her poems, In Her Own Image and Night Feed, to raise funds. Boland knew there was a need for the creation of a safe space for female aspiring writers. This was a membership organisation which organised a large range of workshops nationwide, provided mentoring and support, and organised a Writers and Readers Day in the National Museum (Boland spoke there alongside Maeve Binchy, Jennifer Johnston, Medbh McGuckian and many others). 1984 saw the foundation of WEB (Women’s Education Bureau), the national association of women writers in Ireland, with Eavan Boland as artistic director. In 1979, with Catherine Rose, she commenced a classic literature series (at the same time as Carmen Callil’s Virago Press started their modern classics series in the UK). In 1978, when she joined Arlen House, her first two collections were already out of print, and she was working on her third.

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