"Making St. Brigid’s Crosses with my 101 year old grandmother in 2013” by Michael Fortune

This lovely video of Michael and his grandmother making crosses is only on Facebook, though he has others on youtube.

Making St. Brigid’s Crosses with my 101 year old grandmother in 2013

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Making St. Brigid's Crosses and Related… 

Image: Young white man with old white woman sitting together in front of a fireplace adorned with many items. They are bent of the task of making crosses from green rushes.

"Discussion of St. Brigid’s Cross as a Complex Symbol,” a Paper by Junhan Zhang

Available as a free download from Francis Academic Press [1], “Discussion of St. Brigid’s Cross as a Complex Symbol,” by Junhan Zhang [2]:

“The discussion of St. Brigid’s cross as a complex symbol intends to illustrate the rich cultural implication of St. Brigid’s Cross. Beginning with St. Brigid and St. Brigid’s Day, the essay firstly introduces the importance of this day. Then it continues to demonstrate the strictly regulated process of making one proper St. Brigid’s cross, with some variations included. The straw, the main material to make crosses, has the implication of securing fertility, which is also noted in the essay. Types of cross are generally introduced with pictures for reference. At last, the cross’s cultural implications – to protect and to ensure fertility are addressed in detail.”

[1] Francis Academic Press is one of the world’s largest publishers of peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journals. Built on an ethos of openness, we are passionate about working with the global academic community to promote open scholarly research to the world. With the help of our academic Editors, based in institutions around the globe, we are able to focus on serving our authors while preserving robust publishing standards and editorial integrity.

[2] Published in International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 6: 1-4.

Image: Display of types of St. Brigit’s crosses, Solas Bhríde. Photo by Mael Brigde.