IFHS Journal 2025
I’m re-surfacing a nice article from Irish Heritage News Feb 1 2024 to celebrate St Brigid.
St Brigid has long been one of Ireland’s most revered and iconic saints, celebrated for her charity, peacekeeping, social advocacy and pioneering role in the early Irish Church. However, in recent years, Brigid has become the subject of intense debate, with some recasting her as a pagan goddess and questioning her very existence. We take a deep dive into St Brigid!
St Brigid is the female patron saint of Ireland, ranking second only to St Patrick in Ireland’s hierarchy of saints. Believed to have lived in the 5th and 6th centuries, she is one of the most well-documented early Irish saints. Brigid is credited with founding numerous church sites, but it was her foundation in Kildare that developed into one of the most important ecclesiastical centres in early medieval Ireland.
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I’m re-surfacing a nice article from Irish Heritage News Feb 1 2024 to celebrate St Brigid. St Brigid has long been one of Ireland’s most
Cork Public Museum invite you as key contributors to celebrate the launch of the newly acquired Cork Jewish Community Digital Archive on Thursday 12th February 2026
Maynooth University Department of History, in collaboration with St Patrick’s Pontifical College and Maynooth University Library, are hosting the Fourth Annual Maynooth Through the Ages
FamilySearch Roots Ireland The addition of 8278 nineteenth-century census substitute records have been added for County Kildare to the Roots Ireland database! They are as
