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Landmarks illuminated in bid to make St Brigid’s Day a national holiday
Illuminations include portraits of mother and baby home survivors by Karen Morgan and powerful haiku poems by Laura Murphy
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Mon, 01 Feb, 2021 - 06:30
Neil Michael
Landmarks are being illuminated to promote a campaign to make St Brigid’s Day a national holiday.
The Brigid’s Day the Herstory Light Show, by brand awareness and illumination firm Dodeca, is illuminating landmarks across Ireland in honour of mother and baby home survivors.
The venues include Galway City Museum, St Brigid’s Cathedral in Kildare, Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, and Athlone Castle and Belvedere House in Westmeath.
Kildare landmark St Brigid s Cathedral to be illuminated by campaigners
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To celebrate Brigid’s Day the Herstory Light Show by Dodeca will illuminate iconic landmarks across Ireland on Sunday and Monday, including St Brigid s Cathedral in Kildare town.
The campaign is in honour of St Brigid s Day on Monday.
St Brigid s Cathedral will be illuminated between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on Monday.
The first of February marks the beginning of Spring and the Celtic festival of Imbolc, once honoured as the feast of the goddess.
Herstory is calling on the Irish public and our diaspora to sign the petition to make Brigid’s Day a national holiday and celebrate Ireland’s triple goddess and matron Saint Brigid equally to our world-renowned patron Saint Patrick.