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They include the broadcaster Mary Kennedy, who grew up close to St Brigid’s Well in Clondalkin in Dublin and is the co-author of a book on Brigid. “I did feel that by researching and by writing about Brigid I got more of a sense of me as a woman, as an Irish woman, as a woman with Celtic roots and a confidence,” she says.
The new public holiday, she adds, is not just in Brigid’s honour. “It’s in honour of that whole tribe of people, going back generations, who insisted that her story be told, because it was worth the telling and worth remembering ... what we owe her.”
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