Something many of us will remember from primary school - the making of St Brigid's crosses is a lasting tradition. Perhaps the most painstaking part of manufacturing the crosses lies not in their ...

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 ...

BOOK PICK: Do we know why an Orthodox cross looks a bit different, or what the St. Peter, St. Benedict and St. Brigid crosses are? Clockwise from upper right: anointing of the sick crucifix, cross of ...

A Co Meath woman has been keeping a cherished tradition alive for more than two decades, hand-making St Brigid’s crosses from rushes gathered on her family farm. Delia Heneghan from Kilcloon began ...

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 ...

Three young sisters from Co Wexford have been making hundreds of St Brigid's crosses in the run-up to today's feast day of one of Ireland's patron saints. Two years ago, 15-year-old Nellie Fortune ...

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 ...

Spring in Ireland officially starts on St Brigids Day which is February the 1st in our calendar? Which may not be accurate as this is a celebration that has its roots along way back in pre-christian ...

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.

I arrived at Bewley’s Cafe on Grafton Street on February 1, not entirely sure what to expect from a St Brigid’s Day cross workshop. Like many people, I’d heard of St Brigid – one of the patron saints ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of her death on Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who's been gaining a modern following. Many of the ...

Heading off to photograph Myths & legends of Uisneach, it was a relief to go inland, away from the many flooded towns and villages in the east and southeast, where I had been recording the devastation ...