ireland – Holidays & Special Events

St Brigid’s Day

This day is celebrated in Ireland on 1st February and is the only female patron saint of Ireland. It has its origins in the Celtic festival of Imbolc, it is a festival of fertility and marked the beginning of spring in Ireland. It signalled the end to the darkness of winter and ushered in aContinue reading “St Brigid’s Day”

Holidays on 1st January

Cuba Liberation Day This national public holiday commemorates the overthrow of the military government of Fulgencio Batista led by Fidel Castro that succeeded on this day in 1959. Haiti Independence Day This day commemorates the declaration of independence from France in 1804. The French first settled in the western part of the island in theContinue reading “Holidays on 1st January”