The Republic of Ireland celebrates its new bank holiday named in honour of the one female Irish patron saint - St Brigid 🙏👐😀🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️
A number of events have taken place across Ireland in the run up to St Brigid's bank holidayThe first Irish bank holiday to be named after a woman is taking place in the Republic of Ireland.The group Herstory worked on a three-year campaign to get the public holiday introduced.
A number of events have already taken place across Ireland to celebrate the occasion, including a festival of light show by Herstory in which images of Irish heroines were projected onto landmarks.The group Herstory organised a festival of light show to honour St Brigid "Brigid is a figure in Ireland that represents feminism; and with patriarchy, colonisation and the Church, the feminine has been written out of history and out of our society," she said.
Ms Murphy wrote an open letter to the taoiseach calling for the day to become a national holiday and a petition received 16,000 signatures.
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