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TUNE IN: A Celebration of St. Brigid - live Irish music and dance this Monday


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The Association of Irish and Celtic Festivals (AICF) is proud to be hosting A Celebration of St. Brigid, with support from the Embassy of Ireland, celebrating an Irish saint and Celtic goddess with music from a mix of celebrated female Irish musicians.  
St. Brigid is one of Ireland’s patron saints, although not quite as famous as her male counterpart, St. Patrick, but has legends and tales all her own. The AICF, which is dedicated to bringing the Irish culture to the United States via Irish and Celtic Festivals, wanted to celebrate her importance and bring her holiday, February 1, to the forefront.   ....

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St. Brigid's Day - Department of Foreign Affairs


St. Brigid s Day
 
In Ireland, the first of February marks the beginning of Spring and the celebration of Lá Fhéile Bríde, St Brigid’s Day. Like many of Ireland’s other Christian feast days, Brigid predates Christianity – her roots lie in the Celtic festival of Imbolc, the feast of the goddess Brigid, celebrated at least five millennia ago. In old Irish, Imbolc means in the belly , a reference to lambing and the renewal Spring promises.
Brigid was a triple goddess – of healing, fire, and of poetry – and the saint who took her name, born in 450 AD, carried some of those same associations. The patron saint of poets and midwives, by legend, she maintained a sacred fire by the monastery she founded in Kildare. Alongside St Patrick and St Columcille, she is also one of Ireland’s three patron saints. ....

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