Entering its second year of celebrations, the St. Brigid’s Day/Imbolc bank holiday aims to acknowledge and honour St. Brigid herself, and the central and unique role of women in today’s society, as ...

Since 2023, there has been a new annual public holiday held in February to mark St Brigid's Day. The public holiday falls on ...

Tuesday is Imbolc or Saint Brigid’s Day, one of the four traditional “cross-quarter” days midway between the solstices and the equinoxes. More or less. In the many centuries after this tradition took ...

St Brigid was the feminist, peacemaker and environmentalist who went on to become the matron saint of Ireland. St Brigid's Day, on February 1, marks the start of spring and became a bank holiday in ...

Is droichead í Brigid – Brigid is a bridge. A pre-Christian Celtic goddess and a Christian Patroness Saint – Brigid’s twin-soul bridges the deep-rooted ancient and medieval traditions of Ireland ...