Midwest Radio - Open invite to learn more about St Brigid at the National Museum of Country Life, Turlough
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Kildare Nationalist — Kildare Library presents 'Straw-boys, May-boys, Mummers and Mischief'
Mummers or ‘cleamairí’ in Irish are an age-old Irish custom with connections to similar folk traditions in Britain and across Europe or indeed the world.
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How to mark St Brigid's Day: Biddy Boys, holy water and dreams of love
St Brigid's Day, or Lá Fhéile Bríde, February 1 was once a major turning point in the Irish calendar and was celebrated widely. It represented a new year, the beginnings of spring and a time to take stock of the present and to think about the year ahead. It was known too as Imbolc, an ancient festival meaning 'in the belly', connected to the time of pregnancy for sheep and the beginning of the lambing season in the rural calendar. This became Christianised in Ireland as the feast day of St Brigid - the foremost female Irish saint - and a version of the universal pagan goddess Brigid. A for...
Source: independent.ie