Public holidays · 2025
Saint Brigid's Day falls on Monday 3 February 2025 in Ireland in 2025.
A public holiday across Ireland: most employees have the day off.
In 2025 it falls on a Monday, a working day.
The date changes from year to year.
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Saint Brigid's Day honours Brigid of Kildare, one of the three patron saints of Ireland alongside Patrick and Columba. Tradition describes her as a fifth- and early sixth-century abbess who founded a monastery at Kildare and who was remembered for her charity, hospitality and care for the poor. Many legends have grown around her, and she is also linked to an older Celtic goddess of the same name. The day is also associated with fire, wells and healing in older folk tradition. She is often described as Mary of the Gael.
The date, 1 February, coincides with Imbolc, an ancient Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring and the start of the lambing season. Traditional customs include making Brigid's crosses from rushes, woven in a distinctive four-armed pattern and hung over the door or in the home for protection, and the placing of a cloth, the Brat Bríde, outside overnight to receive her blessing. Visitors to Kildare can see the Solas Bhríde centre, which carries on the saint's memory, and the day is also marked in other Irish communities abroad. Rural communities have kept the rush-cross custom alive for generations.
Everywhere in Ireland.
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A public holiday across Ireland: most employees have the day off.
Monday 3 February 2025.