some European countries have more but if a bank holiday falls on Saturday or Sunday you do not itShould we have an extra Bank Holiday?
We have fewer than most of Europe so there's a case to be made for it.
If we do have it what/who should it be named after, if anything?
Either name it after a saint or in commemoration of all the kids that were assaulted, sexually abused and killed, and for all the women who were imprisoned for becoming pregnant out of marriage, by religious institutions.More importantly... when.
That might shake out a name.
Saint Maria Goretti Day ticks two of your boxes, but I don't think that's quite what you had in mind! Her feast day is 6th July, an excellent time for a bank holiday. July 12th works well also!Either name it after a saint or in commemoration of all the kids that were assaulted, sexually abused and killed, and for all the women who were imprisoned for becoming pregnant out of marriage, by religious institutions.
Either is good, the latter because it's worth remembering, the former because I like irony.
It is certainly ironic, I'll give you that.Saint Maria Goretti Day ticks two of your boxes, but I don't think that's quite what you had in mind! Her feast day is 6th July, an excellent time for a bank holiday. July 12th works well also!
It is, but it shouldn't be.It is certainly ironic, I'll give you that.
Yea, scare someone into converting on their deathbed. What a role model.I agree. Make Saint Brigid's feast day, 1st Feb, a bank holiday. It is also traditionally the first day of spring in Ireland and she is one of our 3 patrons, which include Patrick and Columcille. A woman with a backstory, assuming it's true, that makes her perfect as a patron for "mna na hEireann" in all their unique travails down the millennium and a bit since her death. No more guerilla fighters, war heroes, partisans, or revolutionaries please, just this outstanding Irish woman.
Does that apply to all religion or just this specific story?but dúit bean liom go ndúit bean léi.
How about Mary's Day?that makes her perfect as a patron for "mna na hEireann" in all their unique travails down the millennium
I think in one year all Catholic girl baptisms were variants of Mary including Maria, Marie etc...How about Mary's Day?
Then it could be about the Christian Mother of God, either Mary that was president, Paul McCarthy's mother and person about whom the song was written, or any other Mary you can think of or, indeed, 'Mary' as a collective name for all Irish 'wemmen'.
1954, the Marian year, ordered by Pope Pius for the centenary of the dogma of the immaculate conception.I think in one year all Catholic girl baptisms were variants of Mary including Maria, Marie etc...
We all know it was a joke, nobody could seriously think that Cork deserves... anything.I surprised that Purple seems to be endorsing a day for the Rebels.....
Rebels? Sure, didn't they shoot the best rebel they had!I surprised that Purple seems to be endorsing a day for the Rebels.....