Kildare Irish Figure Dancers performed wonderful choreography in honor of St. Brigid's Day as part of the Brigid 1500 celebrations in Co Kildare. “Happy St Brigids everyone,” Irish dance choreographer ...

Through narrow, winding roads with overflowing hedgerows, Faughart appears virtually untouched through the centuries. I came to this ancient village a few months ago to visit St. Brigid’s Shrine.

For more than 20 years Carmel Hayes has been visiting St Brigid's Primary School in Drumilly, south Armagh to teach children how to make St Brigid's crosses. "The whole secret is to hold them good and ...

Ireland’s Kildare County has organized lectures, pilgrimages, and many activities in its Brigid 1500 Program to mark the anniversary, including a workshop on how to weave a St. Brigid’s Cross — St.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath said she was wearing a St. Brigid’s cross during a briefing on the January 2025 wildfires and not an “inverted” cross, as posts online misleadingly ...

The largest St Brigid’s Cross in Ireland is set to be erected in County Roscommon ahead of the bank holiday weekend. From Thursday, February 1, on Tarmonbarry Bridge, what is believed to be the ...

Making a Saint Brigid’s Cross was once an essential skill known by every family in the country. It is a beautiful cross, made by patiently folding, twisting and tightening freshly cut reeds. The ...

Roughly 4,000 secondary school students gathered in Co Kildare to attempt to break the world record for the largest human St. Brigid's Cross ever formed. Students from 18 secondary schools across Co ...

St Brigid’s story is celebrated across Ireland, beginning in Faughart, just outside Dundalk, where her life, as saint, goddess and enduring symbol of renewal, first unfolded. Her legacy remains ...

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 ...