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To commemorate the 1,500th year anniversary of St Brigid, Dún na Sí is proud to host ‘In Cloak and Womb, a song cycle tracing the echoes of Brigid’.

Tonnta - Galway’s newest festival, celebrating the Irish language and Galway as a bilingual city will run from today February 1 to Feb 4. Given the weekend that is in it, there are a number of themes, but the primary one is to celebrate Galway’s status as a bilingual city.

The year 2024 marks the 1500th anniversary of the death of St Brigid (c. 450–524) of Ireland, who some scholars believe is a personality generated during the period of transition from Irish Paganism to Christianity, replacing the goddess Brigit, the Irish manifestation of the Celtic Brigantia.

St Brigid’s defeated Corofin last Sunday to lift the Shane McGettigan cup for the first time since 2012 — the year they went on to win the All-Ireland title.

Following a 3 year campaign spearheaded by Herstory, St. Brigid’s Day is Ireland’s new national holiday and the first named in honour of a woman: Brigid, our matron Saint and Celtic Goddess and a celebration of all mná.

Brigid Fox

Brigit’s Garden is inviting the public to make a Brigit’s cross for themselves and one for charity at a special event to celebrate St Brigit’s Day on Sunday (February 1).

A Straide woman, whose vibrant personality, enthusiasm for life and deep roots and friendships within her community and beyond, has inspired a century strong army of women to run in her honour at the West of Ireland Women’s Mini-Marathon on Sunday.

The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing and, by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara, I was feverish and coughing. I spent the rest of my time in bed reading the only two books on Aran and its saints that I could find, a big one by Mr O Siochain [Aran: Islands of Legend] and a small one by Father Scantlebury [Saints and Shrines of Aran Mor]”.