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Curious to learn more about #StBrigidsDay?

👂Podcast exploring Brigid in folk tradition through the National Folklore Collection at UCD: shorturl.at/pLs0G

📔Assoc Prof Elva Johnston writes on Brigit of Kildare as the first Irish saint to be celebrated in detail by early writers:
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 18 - Brigid In Folk Tradition
St. Brigid’s Day falls on the first of February, and is traditionally understood as marking the beginning of spring in Irish custom. Dedicated to the saint nicknamed Muire na nGael or the ‘Mary of th
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January 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Sadly bird flu is on the rise again, with a confirmed case in the east of East Sussex.

If out and about this weekend, you can help to reduce the risk of spreading the disease. 👇

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February 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
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Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY
The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
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January 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Where are the UK posts, I'm new here and all I'm seeing is USA ?
November 30, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Russians now control the government of Georgia, bringing back all the Russian culture that Georgians know so well from the previous decades of Russian occupation.

If Georgians don't win now, it's decades of this.
November 30, 2024 at 10:01 AM