St Brigid

Game Changers: Claire Anne Tobin is on a mission to make St Patrick’s Day an international day of climate action

Currach Books accused of turning St Brigid into a black woman

McMahon’s story of getting lost in New York before searching for her roots ripples out as it moves back in time

Dr Muiris Houston: Folk cures often have some of the same methods and goals of biomedicine and must not be neglected

Aside from her unique role in Irish ecclesiastical history, she also serves as an icon for women paving the way for other women

Brigid can be revered as a goddess and as a saint but the abbess of a powerful monastery cannot be erased in favour of a goddess with scant sources

From Kildare to Dublin and London to Vancouver, there will be concerts, talks, light shows and so much more

It would be easy to for Siobhán McSweeney to become lost in the new-age psychobabble surrounding the saint. But this is a heartfelt, illuminating portrait

St Brigid’s Day: I let rip with all the fabulous magical realism I could muster and soon I had the General cornered

Series of events scheduled as next Monday is to be the first St Brigid’s Day bank holiday

The name was so common in the 19th and most of the 20th century that Brigid was often used as a generic term for Irish women in the way that Paddy or Mick was used for men

Born of a king and a slave and raised by a druid, Brigid integrates opposites and stands as the sister of all

At least 7.5m people emigrated from Ireland between 1815 and 1914. Among these millions were women who became murderers, professional thieves, prostitutes and alcoholics

New holiday takes place on first Monday after February 1st feast day and falls this year on February 6th