St Brigid's Day

Judge Síofra O'Leary, president of the European Court of Human Rights, will tonight deliver a lecture on Ireland's European connections at a government ...

Peter Burke, the minister of state for European affairs and defence, will introduce Judge O’Leary. Her talk, which will focus on Ireland, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights, is the second lecture in the Department of Foreign Affairs’ EU50 Iveagh House lecture series. Judge Síofra O’Leary, president of the European Court of Human Rights, will tonight deliver a lecture on Ireland’s European connections at a government event marking St Brigid’s Day.

Into Kildare, the tourism board for Kildare, and Solas Bhríde Centre & Hermitages have joined forces on the global initiative.

“She was compassionate, a protector of the natural world and a formidable force for justice whose light shines ever more brightly today. “St Brigid was renowned as a peacemaker and one of the most popular stories associated with her is that of her giving away her father’s precious jewelled sword to a poor person so that he could barter it for food to feed his family,” she said. This movement aims to awaken and build a spirit of global solidarity in our search for peace,” Sr Rita Minehan of Solas Bhríde said.

Conor McGregor has advised his hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram to hang a scarf or cloth outside their door as protection against headaches ...

“They would hang them over the door and around the home to welcome St Brigid. “They say the saint will pass and bless them,” he adds. “Saint Brigid's Eve tradition,” he wrote.

We all rejoiced at the news of a new public holiday, especially since Ireland has some of the fewest bankers in all the EU. It's in the name of St. Brigid ...

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St Brigid's Day falls on the pre-Christian Imbolc, the midpoint between the astronomical winter solstice and the astronomical spring equinox.

These soil biota are chomping through the detritus of last year’s fallen leaves and preparing the ground for a new season of growth. When these energetic photons interact with electrons inside each molecule of green chlorophyll, water, and carbon dioxide are dismantled so that plants can recombine them to produce the carbohydrates they need to grow. The extent to which our ancient ancestors revered the interactions between earth and sun is entirely logical. These rituals were believed to determine the success of each new agricultural year. It marks the end of the earth’s winter sleep, the turning point at which trees and plants are awakening from dormancy. These were the four principal ritual festivals in the pre-Christian calendar, each representing the transition from one season to the next.

Today, February 1, is special as we celebrate St Brigid's Day, and events are taking place across the country as we mark the occasion over the new ...

During Imbolg, she fertilised the land and, in the tradition of the Biddy, she brings good luck to all households she visits. Music and dancing were and remain part of the Biddy tradition. Each group carried a Brídeóg, a small effigy of St Brigid, the Irish saint who lived in the 5th and 6th Centuries.

Crosses are being fashioned, poundies eaten and rags left out honouring a tradition of St. Brigid that has been kept alive for hundreds of years.

Also by getting crosses blessed and later these crosses are hung up in all the rooms of the houses and in all the offices.” "There are different causes as to why these crosses are made, and it is said that one time there was a great plague in Ireland, and St. A garment is taken from each member of the house and left outside so that St. "The rushes are placed underneath the tables, and the people are all invited to take of the meal. “A tradition still carried on in this locality by most of the people is by gathering a bundle of rushes the day before St. The rushes are woven in crosses. The man of the house cuts rushes and goes round the house three times, each time he comes to the door the same prayer is said. “On St Patrick's Day and St Brigid's day they kept a cross made out of straw hung up on the kitchen wall. When the prayers are said the crosses are made then.” There are two kind of crosses made in honour of her. When the crosses were made they were sprinkled with holy water, and one was put up in what ever houses you had. They are made by the family.

A new short film created by older people from counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Cavan and Monaghan launches in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim today, ...

Participants worked in a series of workshops and produced hand-crafted artefacts such as Brigid-style crosses, protective God's eyes, masks, hats and Brídeóga." "This project was creative, colourful, and everyone got active. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.