Revered relics of St Brigid are coming back to Co Kildare after nearly a millennium. St Brigid, the mother saint of Ireland, is one of the country's three national saints along with St Patrick and ...

A fragment of St Brigid's skull has been returned to her native Kildare, where she famously built her church, after over 1,000 years. A procession took place at St Brigid’s Parish Church in Co ...

One of those is in County Kildare, where St Brigid is credited with founding a monastery that became one of the most powerful sites in early Christian Ireland. No mean feat for an early medieval ...

Ireland elevates St. Brigid alongside St. Patrick, reclaiming its forgotten female saint and marking a dramatic shift from ...

Looking back through ancient Irish history, it is said that the tradition began in 5th century Ireland when St. Brigid of Kildare bitterly complained to St. Patrick that women had to wait far too ...

"St. Brigid of Kildare is particularly associated with light and hope and peace. In including the Saint Brigid/Imbolc public holiday as one of the official days our National Flag is flown ...

Whether we are Franks, Irish or Britons or whatever race, we are members of one body.St Columban to French bishops ...

We bought one for our own house and I began to research it's meaning and history. St. Brigid's cross symbolises the beginning of Spring. In Ireland the official beginning of Spring is February 1st ...

STUDENTS from Scoil Mhichíl Naofa in Athy attended artist Cathy Callan’s art workshop in conjunction with the ‘Beauty of Brigid’ exhibition and the wider Spirit of Brigid festival.

About Finding Brigid, how to watch, cast and FAQs. As Ireland prepares to celebrate its first public holiday dedicated to a woman, Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney goes in search of the real St ...