Hi 👋🏻 SO happy to be back making videos - hope you like this one about St. Brigid! Read the Medium post here which explains more about Pagan v Christian Brigid: clarecullen.medium.com/irelands-second-favourite-patron-saint-910f089d776e Buy the sweatshirt here: clisare.com/en-eur/products/boss-brigid-crewneck

@charlotteroblin5374

3 ай бұрын

Hello❤. I know this is random but oh well... John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.❤❤

@SteveInTheOC

3 ай бұрын

Howdy Miss C. 🤗

Actually heard of Her. ;-) If She gets you another Holiday then Props to Her.

I absolutely LOVE the stories of the lores and legends!!! St Brigid is so misunderstood…….I’m so glad you were able to share this with us. 💖

Pardon my language but I fucking love you, Clare!! Thank you so much for bringing us along for this. And thank you for talking about Ireland’s pagan past (and present) in these videos. I’m absolutely hooked. Please continue on with the rest of the Pagan year if you plan on it, and I can’t wait to watch the video on Saint Patrick. Big love always from Canada. ❤❤

This was fun, Clare! And you FINALLY got us to Bunratty! That was a fun half day the one I was there. Just have yourselves fun on St Patrick's and take us along .... the idea is to learn about Ireland and how you celebrate it

"Badarse Bridie" ... Well thankyou, thankyou very much 😉 love it! When i started a new school, my first lesson was "saints and fables" so of course my teacher included St Bridie. I was the only child to draw her without brown hair like mine ❤❤ Very cool video.

I don’t know why this didn’t come up in my notifications!!! I’m glad I found it though, I thoroughly enjoyed that!!! Please do more like this about history & festivals & such. I can’t travel so I do it through creatures like yourself. ❤❤❤

Clisare , Thank you for taking me along with you today ! I learned things I didn’t know, and heard songs that I never heard ! Cheers from California 😊

What I learned is that Clare is still one heck of a journalist. Kinda knew it already, but it's always nice to see how she keeps on truckin'.

Thanks for sharing, Clare. Glad you had a good time. That castle is a perfect place for you 😉

I propose that Clisare become the patron saint of Ireland! Saint Clisares day. Make it happen Ireland. ☀️😉

Ireland seems like a great place to get hi 👋 💨 and hit the town. Y’all are to much fun.

@Clisare

2 ай бұрын

Not legal here unfortunately! 😜

Iontach físeán Clisare!!! GRMA for the information about St/Goddess Brigit

My grade school was St. Patrick's and the principal for most of my time was Sister Bridie....

Terrific presentation. Go raibh míle maith agat.

Shes my inspiration!!!

Truly appreciated coming upon your content!!

Ah class! This didn't come up in my notifications, it was on your latest 'We have something to tell you' video you talked of Killorglin and my ears pricked up! I was one of the photographers at the festival (that probably got in your way, sorry!), my wife and friends are the organisers of the festival and the whole town is involved over the whole week leading up to it and the weekend. I wish I saw you in the crowd to say hello. Come to Killorglin again, we have K-FEST on June Bank Holiday (maybe next year if travelling is bad) which is very family friendly and of course Puck Fair. Im involved with both of those festivals. So glad you enjoyed Killorglin, hope to see you back again.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I have been mad keen to come to the Puck fair for a few years, it’s a BIG one on my bucket list!!

@DaveRyan

3 ай бұрын

@@Clisare Do it, come along at least once in your life. Do K-FEST as well, its not as 'hectic' as Puck :D - keep in touch if you want more info.

Thanks Claire! I've been interested in Brigid for a long time! I actually am in a small group on fb that shares keeping a flame going every day by lighting a candle. ❤ The festival looks really cool!

I've had a St. Briged's cross over my front for years.

Nice video. The RCC has historically used, and not had a problem with, pagan traditions and iconography and has implemented them quite frequently in fact. Yes, they attempted to squash multiple folk religions but imbued the church with syncretic elements as well. A figure rather similar to Brigid is St. Walpurga

Jesus turns water into wine. Brigid says, "Hold my....dammit! Hang on a mo. THERE! Hold my beer!"

Thank you for such a great video. Just wondering, does Kilorglin just have ALL the festivals?😂❤😂

I had heard some of the stories about St. Brigid, but not all. Thanks again for the lesson. Legends and folklore being borrowed by the church -Very very interesting.

My favorite Brigit fact is. The Priestess/Nuns that keep lit Brigits Flame, at Kildare

Imbolc Shona Daoibh!

Wonderful video!

Great video , Clare !! I had heard of her . I love your enthusiasm for your Countries History !! Thanks for sharing her story ! Ps. Loved seeing you on the Try Channel !! 🇮🇪☘️ 💚🤍🧡

Thank you so much, Claire! I love this one! I'd love to learn about the Imbolc festival, too. And yes to a St. Patrick's day video, wherever it takes you. Thank you so much!

Clisare. You are magical. Stay healthy.🍀❤

Thank you 💗

Enjoyed our visit to Bunratty

St. Sunniva is supposed to have been Irish, her feast-day is July 8. if you need any more holidays...

I Absolutely Love the Storytelling

Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone and I'm glad you got a chance to see the festivals. However everyone needs to always remember it's Pagan, Catholic then Wiccan 🥃 Sláinte 🇮🇪

At least Brigid has a holiday now! (and no one talks at all about St. Columba/Colmcille)

I have three novels set in the 5th and 6th centuries of Ireland (historical fantasy) and St. Brigit, St Colmcille, and St. Patrick are characters in each! I loved doing the research for these. And I hope Brigid gets a lot more airtime going forward.

This i think is my favorite video so far! You are always improving as well....not in a condescending way. Take care❤

Imbolc Brigits Blessings to you Claire

Always love your Irish language and Irish mythology :)

You have been missed! 💚

Fantastic

Love the jumper, Clare! The design is so gorgeous!

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

Weirdly, I heard about the water in to beer miracle just yesterday - it was her bathwater, I believe, and she repeated the miracle with bathwater from a leper colony. Now I bet that had a bit of body to it.

@LindaC616

3 ай бұрын

So bad it stinks...😅

"you'll be speaking all languages" Ay, and all at once! 😆

There's some great festival over there and I'd love to do the St. Brigid's pilgrimage walk one year (Brigid's Way). There's some great resources out there about Brigit (Pagan Goddess and Saint) like the Irish Pagan School. I have learned to be wary of Wiccan resources since there are a lot of fictional and appropriative liberties taken among wiccan authors. And kudos to Laura Murphy (@everrose) who did a lot to help spearhead the campaign to get a national holiday for Brigid recognized and made an official (the first dedicated to a woman in Ireland).

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I know you’re talking about the festival but every time I hear you say Biddy I just hear Bitty which here in the states is the same as B#?*! 🤣

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

… what?!? 😂 I’ve never once heard “Bitty?!”

Very interesting, loved the story teller could have listened to him for a while. Hope all is well and your happy with the Super Bowl outcome I am, was a great game. Best to all and of course scritches for Miss Millie

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I’m going to upload a longer version of the Storyteller on Patreon 😊 I’m delighted, I didn’t watch it but I watched a documentary with Patrick Mahomes and really liked him so I’m glad his team won 😂

I'm up for a Saint Patrick thing. My brother was born on 17 March and his middle name is Patrick. His first name is the paternal sibling, so I hope you'll forgive.

Brigid is a badass goddess! And she was my dad’s (he is a Irish gaelic Pagan) personal goddess!

The island country of Ireland is almost comparable in size to the medium sized US state of Missouri ...

uploading a video during the superbowl is ballsy

@gwenstacysmom

3 ай бұрын

if you're pro-palestine you're not watching the superbowl

I was lookin at youtube videos on Brigid's Day about how to make a Brigid's Cross. Seems like an interesting form of meditation to make one and they look really cool too. I might try to track down materials for next year since rushes aren't native to grow where I live. Straw had been suggested online but I don't think that that would be as sturdy or look as nice. I also tried to go around to some shops lookin for one to hang or wear but not one shop had any clue what I was talkin about lol

Dia duit! Been enjoying your content for many years! Great to see more again! I recognized the wood worker kid , he’s got a channel too. Any ideas on how to track families from the states to Ireland? I’m a McCord with about five generations here

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I’d have no idea how to go about that, especially being that far back. Maybe one of those DNA test services?

Long time no see. How are the both of you and Alex doing. Hopefully both are doing great 👍 👌 🎉❤.

There use to be a St. Bridget Roman Catholic church in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.

So Mote to be 💚 😊

I did know about Brigid and weave her crosses (which I've read is likely a pre-Christian symbol) for Imbolc. (The reeds come from an Irish etsy shop. Now I've gotta go to your shop so I can be appropriately dressed next year.)

I have heard several stories about St Bridgette. I have NOT heard she was pagan however it doesn't surprise me at all. Many "Christian" traditions are steeped in pagan origins. Bun Ratty Castle and Village was a great experience. I spoke with the police officer and a few other of the workers. I loved the animals all around.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I go more in depth into that part in the Medium post here: clarecullen.medium.com/irelands-second-favourite-patron-saint-910f089d776e

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St Bridget has always been known as a patron saint of Ireland.

@Clisare

2 ай бұрын

Yes but I’d say a poll of Americans would yield a surprising result on that being common knowledge

@anthonymcloughlin2634

2 ай бұрын

@@Clisare absolutely

The story about her cloak is similar to Queen Dido of Carthage

More of these pagan/pre-christian stories would be greatly appreciated Claire. Also how the hell was St Brigid not made THE irish drinking holiday centuries ago!

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Good question! There’s more info on Pagan vs Christian Brigid in the article in the description 😊

I myself have heard of St. Brigid actually

You know the fella doing woodwork has his own youtube, dont you? Eoin Reardon. Might have a story to tell about finding fame with historical craft.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I didn’t! 🙌🏻 I’ll pop a link in the description

I knew it was St. Brigid!

Hi Clisare haven't seen you in awhile I missed you. Love you so much

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😭 Glad to be back!

@Justin_Sy

3 ай бұрын

@@Clisare 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️

If you think those streets were packed, you should come to New Orleans for Mardi Gras :P

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

It was packed for a small village in Kerry in the rain. Not everything is a competition with the US…

@coltbillingsly6897

3 ай бұрын

@@Clisare apologies for making the insinuation it was.

I named my Gi**er kitty Aoife which means “beauty” or “radiance”, She was known in Irish mythology as “The Handsome” and “Greatest of Female Warriors”, sort of like Ireland's version of Joan of Arc. Most people pronounce it EE-vah or simple Eve but it's actually pronounced AY-vah or EH-vah in Canada, eh, I call her Pretty Kitty My other kitty, a very talkative Tuxedo, is named Jabberwocky or just Jabbers from the Lewis Carrol book but usually call her Cutey Kitty. Carrol was on the Autism Spectrum, had a stutter and was partially deaf like me except I had speech therapy and hearing aids to fix those disabilities. You can learn some interesting Fun Facts when researching pet names.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Interesting. That’s not how Aoife would be pronounced here. Why are you censoring the word ginger 😂

@ll7868

3 ай бұрын

@@Clisare Eh-vah because Canada, eh. And "only a g**ger can call another g**ger g**ger, just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja" - Prejudice by Tim Minchin

I thought this was going to be about Pagan from the Try channel. :) Bank holiday? That sounds good to me. Catholic or pagan, no matter. :)

So happy to see you back! Still team Alex but how else can I follow him? (jk great vid)(but still team Alex)

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

You can’t, really. He doesn’t like social media. He really only puts up with being the videos for my sake!

1996?!? 😮 I had my first child, unmarried, in 1992!! Wow! 😮

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Yeah the very last one closed in 1996

Well….I have definitely heard of her….too much Irish in my blood. (Is there such a thing?) I have even helped grandma with weaving a Cross or two, back in the day. I seem to remember her putting some cloth outside too.

"If you drink five Guinnesses, you'll see the sun shine and two of everything." But he forgot to mention that if you drink five Guinnesses, you'll need the toilet A LOT!!

My wife has a lot of Irish blood.

I've heard of her but have no idea from where

she is mine, Thank you

I'm still awake!

They call her Brigit, i call her Brid

What did St. Patrick do? Snakes don't count? And *I* think St. Brigid was at the bottom of the patron saint list so she could keep all the others in front of her so she could watch them...

5:28 Who am I to say, and each to their own, but someone who busks, plays and sings Irish folk, that has to be the strangest version of Step It Out Mary I have *ever* heard LOL, I'm not criticizing, I just find it a weird interpretation 🤣 🤣

I would like to know more about the Pagan side of Brigid, given how much of Irish Pagan ritual was sanitised for the interests of the Church. Maybe we should be celebrating her instead of Patrick.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I have some more info in the post linked in description plus I’ve links in the post to all my sources

Hiya Clare, loved your vid on Saint Brigid and your journey in Killorgan. Please do a vid on Saint Patrick, especially the legend when he baptized the four children of Lír.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I’ve done a video on St Patrick already on my channel, check it out 😊

Wasn’t it St Patrick chased all the snakes 🐍 out of Ireland?

@Clisare

Ай бұрын

“The snakes” are pagans btw

The origin of the term 'old biddy'?

Not Morrigan ??

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

The Morrigan isn’t a saint, no

There is a theory, which I personally believe in, which is that St. Brigid and Brigid the Goddess are one and the same. The church just appropriated the goddess and her stories, put a Christian spin on them and called her a saint. Case and point, it was said that Brigid, the goddess, invented ale

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I talk about this in the blog post I mention. I covered the theory that Christian Brigid never existed and that she was just a sanitation of the goddess

Lá Gran a thabhairt duit Claire The Bridgit Cross made from straw or rushes has its roots in Latin and Greek culture as it is somewhat where Catholicism began to flourish. However, that Irish style still has its own 'uniqueness'. it does however have much resemblance to the Eurasian 'magic square' and the Mexican 'god's eye'. That design is ultra popular in Mexican weaving and artisanry. personally, I blame those darn Catholic rituals and imperialism aka indoctrination. A more popular "Irish" holiday celebrated is Samhain aka Halloween which on its core has a very much similarity to Mexico's "Dia de Los Muertos" (Day of the Dead). I have celebrated THAT holiday more than St. Patrick's Day. Go dtuga beannachtaí Naomh Brigit do bhealach!

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Yes I have videos about Samhain. Imbolc is increasing in popularity but the most popular is Bealtaine by far.

Brigid is very petite

H3 family

Its amazing that there are still people who do t know about the original pagan side of this? Baffling 🤔

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

I linked a blog post in the description that goes into that side of it

I am familiar with the Saint - but - I celebrate Imbolc and honor the Goddess. Though, I'd ask you to please not link the Celtic Druidical Brigid with the Wicca. Druidism predates that philosophy. But really very informative. I really must come back from my exile.

@Clisare

3 ай бұрын

Apologies, I didn’t know that, I got a portion of my research from Wiccan sources that claim her in the same way pagans do so I didn’t understand there was a difference. Thanks for letting me know

@seamasrigh2162

3 ай бұрын

Please don't think I'm criticizing you at all. I really love your content. I do find it interesting that Brigid/Brigit is the only Celtic Goddess to find Sainthood. The other Brigit stories not withstanding. Not Lugh, Cernnunos, the Daghda or even Danu. Perhaps the link to the healing arts helped her. I imagine that's why so much is included in the Wicca teachings. Since Druids did not commit the faith to the written word we are left with the interpretations of the 11th Century monks and the biased views of the Romans. We are still around in perhaps a Neo-Druid form, trying to find the inspiration of the Gods to lead us. I really appreciate your work and the information you deliver. My visions of Ireland are those of a descendant of famine Irish exiles to America. No, it's not the magically delicious Lucky Charm version. But you do help me connect. Thank you.@@Clisare