10 years ago today, Solas Bhríde Centre and Hermitages Officially Opened. “The the people who will use the centre in the future I am sure will find comfort and solace...

LAUNCH OF FÉILE BHRÍDE 2025 Sr. Phil O’Shea, Solas Bhride, Siobhan Keogh KTCS, Mayor Kevin Duffy, Minister of State, Martin Heydon, Aine Mangan Into Kildare, Councillor Noel Heavy, Dean Isobel...

Solas Bhride is delighted with State recognition for the Weaving of a St Brigid’s Cross as part of Ireland’s Cultural Heritage Minister Martin Announces State Recognition of Irish Set Dancing,...

Central Bank of Ireland launches Saint Brigid collector coin to commemorate Ireland’s famous saint. Sr. Rita Minehan shows off the coin We celebrated a wonderful event at Solas Bhride on...

Pope Francis receives Sr. Rita’s book Rekindling the Flame Gerard Gallagher of AMRI presents a Féile Bríde programme and a copy of our very own Sr. Rita’s book Rekindling the...

St. Brigid’s Relic Tradition holds that three Irish knights took a bone fragment of St Brigid to Lumiar in Portugal in the 13th century.  The relic is still venerated in...

LAUNCH OF FÉILE BHRÍDE 2024 Many people gathered at Solas Bhríde for the launch of the 31st Annual Féile Bhríde. 2024 is a special year as we commemorate the 1500th...

Solas Bhride receives Special Award Solas Bhride was honoured to receive a special award from County Kildare Chamber on Friday, November 17th at the Kildare Business Awards 2023. The award...

Conference: Brigid: Woman of Mystery, Woman of Inspiration Highlights from the Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HdFl34L_4 Dr Niamh Wycherley and participants It was a full house at Solas Bhríde on Saturday 22nd April...

Solas Bhride Launches Rekindling the Flame Eileen Dunne, former newsreader with RTE news, speaking at the launch of Rekindling the Flame Solas Bhride Spirituality Centre is pleased to announce the...

The 30th Anniversary Of Féile Bríde : Darkness, Dawning, Light

Revised edition of Rekindling the Flame, a Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Brigid of Kildare by Rita Minehan Rekindling the Flame – A Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Brigid of...

Phil O Shea, Solas Bhride, Adi Roche and Fintan Brett Mayor Of County Kildare hold aloft the Flame of Brigid Feb 4th 2023 Adi Roche, Joe Murray of Afri, Fintan...

LAUNCH OF FÉILE BHRÍDE 2023 William Redmond (Director), James Kavanagh (Director), Aine Mangan (CEO Into Kildare ), Rita Minahan (Director), Phil O’Shea (Director), Sonya Kavanagh (Chief Executive of Kildare County...

Into Kildare, the Tourism Board for County Kildare and Solas Bhríde Spirituality Centre & Hermitages have jointly launched a global ‘Pause for Peace’ movement.  Pause for Peace will see the...

Appropriately, the seed of Afri’s involvement with Féile Bríde was an act of generosity by five young Derry boys, who learned how to make St. Brigid Crosses, sold them and...