Category: News
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Kildare Yarn Bombers make Brigid’s Cloak to Fight Animal Cruelty
So the lore of Brigids Cloak goes as follows: St Brigid asked the king for some land to build her monastery. He jokingly said that she could have as much land as she could cover with her cloak. She spread her cloak out and it expanded to cover a huge chunk of Ireland. The version…
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Article: How Rituals Encourage Mindful Living
Many people think of ritual in the context of religion, and of course that’s how I use it in my service to Brigid and the Old Gods,but ritual is a useful tool for focusing your attention on the task at hand, esoteric or mundane. Read the full article on the Vox Website.
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Learning about Virtual Fashion!
So for the past few weeks I’ve been looking into NFTs as a way to design and sell virtual copies of my real-life knitted items. So I was thrilled when I came across DressX. DressX is an app where you can upload a picture of yourself and put digital clothing on, much of which looks…
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[:en]From the New York Times: As Ireland’s Church Retreats, the Cult of a Female Saint Thrives[:]
[:en]Excerpt: By Ed O’Loughlin Published March 11, 2022Updated March 14, 2022 KILDARE, Ireland — Around the year 480, as legend has it, a freed slave named Brigid founded a convent under an oak in the east of Ireland. To feed her followers, she asked the King of Leinster, who ruled the area, for a grant of land. Read…