Happy Saint Brigid’s Day!🌷 The 1st of February is Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland, when we celebrate the life of one of Ireland’s patron saints and the start of Imbolc, an ancient festival marking the coming of a new Spring. 🌷🌱🌳🌾 Spring in Ireland is a truly magical time to visit, with brighter, longer days and landscapes bursting into life. Are you planning a trip to Ireland this Spring?🤩 #Ireland #LoveIreland #DiscoverIreland #FillYourHeartWithIreland #SpringInIreland #SaintBrigid #StBrigi

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Blessing of St. Brigid's Crosses Father of all creation and Lord of light, you have given us life and entrusted your creation to us to use it and to care for it. We ask you to bless these crosses made of green rushes in memory of Holy Brigid, who used the cross to recall and to teach your Son's life, death and resurrection. May these crosses be a sign of our sharing in the Paschal Mystery of your Son and a sign of your protection of our lives, our land and its creatures through Brigid's interces

Making St. Brigid’s Crosses with my 101-Year-Old Grandmother (2013) Here’s a video some of ye will have seen before, and one I always look back on around this time of year as we come close to St. Brigid’s Day. It was filmed in 2013 and shows me cutting a few rushes and making a few crosses with the grandmother. She was 101 at the time and I’d been getting rushes from the same field (Billy Lough’s Field, as we called it) since the early 1980s to make crosses for her. When I later found the footag