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Saint Brigid’s Day Traditions
The first of February sees the feast day of one of the premier saints in the Irish tradition, Saint Brigid. Brigid is second in line to the more well Known Saint Patrick but evidence points to the fact that she may well have been higher up the scale till the patriarchal Roman Church and its […]
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St Brigid’s Day, Celtic tradition and iconic Irish women
At the end of this particularly cold and gloomy winter the Irish are as eager as ever to mark the earliest signs of spring on St Brigid’s Day, 1 February. An iconic character in the culture of the nation, St Brigid was the first female and native-born patron saint of Ireland and remains a strong […]