For more than 1000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland every year on 17 March. Over the years, the religious holiday commemorating the death of Saint Patrick, the patron ...

The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of ... or wear a specific outfit or costume. Being able to mark a holiday, and have others mark it, is a way of "putting ...

St Patrick's Day celebrations are set to take over Northern Ireland this weekend ... Patrick's Day Parade - March 17 Enjoy a dazzling display of costume, music, dance and theatrical performances ...

It is celebrated on 1st February and honours the patroness saint of Ireland St Brigid, as well as celebrating the beginning of Spring. Before the trip I didn’t know much at all about the ...

St Patrick, meanwhile, is the patron saint of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic ... the woman standing just to his left – St Brigid, whose feast day at the weekend was a celebration ...

Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, is encouraging members of the public to participate in the Saint Brigid ... heritage. Ireland's National Cultural ...

Auxiliary Bishop Michael Router of the Archdiocese of Armagh was speaking on Feb. 1 at the Shrine of Saint Brigid at her birthplace in Faughart in the Republic of Ireland. Saint Brigid ...

Events are continuing in Co Louth this long weekend to commemorate the birth and legacy of Saint Brigid. Tradition holds that Ireland's iconic matron saint was born at sunrise on 1 February 452 in ...

St Brigid's Day, or Imbolc, has been a yearly public holiday since 2023 to mark both the saint's feast day and ... And why is she one of Ireland's patron saints? St Brigid was said to have been ...

made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick, used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. St. Brigid ...

he ancient accounts of Saint Brigid– whose feast day is celebrated on 1 February – tell us something about the part that women played in the early centuries of Christianity in Ireland and ...

I kicked things off at a candlelit concert in St Brigid’s Cathedral in Kildare town, a 30-minute train ride from Dublin. Over the course of the evening, some of Ireland’s coolest female singer ...