A Brigid Too Far:
Transitioning Ireland’s National Female Saint Into a Queer Pagan Globalist Abortion-Goddess

St. Brigid, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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St. Patrick’s Day is near, the international celebration of all it means to be Irish. But what, precisely, does it mean to be Irish today? To not actually be Irish at all, if you can possibly help it—particularly not in terms of the nation’s once-dominant religion.

It is not so long ago that “Auld Ireland” was the most traditionalist Catholic nation in Western Europe, but that is no longer the case. Today’s remote Dublin ruling-class, intolerantly secularist and globalist to their very core, aggressively and relentlessly promote key liberal shibboleths like mass immigration, abortion, gay marriage, Islam and transgenderism across the land without any Christian mercy whatsoever. Ireland in the 2020s is now a country where a Christian schoolteacher can be imprisoned, seemingly without end, merely for refusing to call a boy a girl when he clearly isn’t.

Therefore, it seems highly surprising that, when the Left-wing Irish government announced the creation of a new annual public holiday to be marked beginning in 2023, politicians decided to name it after the nation’s primary female Christian patron saint, St. Brigid. What could their motivation possibly have been? Surely not to throw the island’s bedraggled and demoralized remaining Catholic voters a political bone for once? Of course not. Instead, the true intention was to deliberately insult them by disingenuously transforming St. Brigid into an anti-Catholic anti-saint instead—the patron saint not of Ireland, but of immigration, feminism, Islam, queerness, witchcraft, and abortion.

The Lady With the Lamp

The age-old Catholic feast day of St. Brigid is February 1, which was naturally chosen to coincide with the date of the new public holiday. To celebrate it this year, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs put out what was clearly an intentionally blasphemous video, intended to portray a picture of the country considered acceptable for foreign consumption by the heightened sensibilities of the new secular priest-caste of “Official Ireland”—that of a godless den of iniquity ruled over by a New Age female goddess.

Supposedly, St. Brigid was pre-existed during pre-Christian times by a native pagan deity simply called Brigid, who is often (if debatably) said to have been merged and syncretized by Church authorities with St. Brigit, a (probable) real-life nun and abbess who founded the Abbey of Kildare sometime around 480-490 AD, and whose claimed skull today resides in Portugal’s Lisbon Cathedral as a holy relic. The Irish government have chosen to deliberately conflate the goddess and the saint themselves, to the extent that, in their new video, St. Brigid is now spuriously reconceived as a Lefty goddess of modern feminism.

As it falls on February 1st, St. Brigid’s Day also falls upon the day of Imbolc, popularly imagined to be the ancient Celtic New Year, when pagans once celebrated the rebirth of spring. Although in reality a nun, who would have dressed accordingly, in the government film Brigit now dresses in a long black cloak widely taken by ordinary Irish viewers to make her look intentionally like a pagan witch, who hurries throughout Ireland carrying a lantern, stopping off at various key feminist turning points in the nation’s recent, post-Catholic, history. Right at the start, we are told that the occasion is “A national day celebrating feminine energy, light and leadership,” with Brigid evidently carrying the lamp of Enlightenment throughout the Emerald Isle, to dispel all lingering traces of darkness from it upon the first day of a bright new spring. But what did this darkness constitute? Catholicism and all traces of any ancient, pre-liberal, national Irish cultural tradition, evidently.

“St. Brigid was an activist, healer and peacemaker,” continues the spiel, very conveniently leaving out that she was also, rather more significantly, a nun and a Christian. This is overlaid with a silhouette image of a pregnant young mother, her belly swelling with child. So, the way in which St. Brigid was a  “healer” of her flock was by curing common illnesses of pregnancy, then, or by dispelling infertility, or delivering sick babies safely?

No, of course not, this is modern secular Left-wing Ireland. In fact, she “healed” them by generously killing their babies whilst still in the womb for them instead.

St. Brigid Was Not Frigid

By “Inspiring women who turned compassion into power,” Bridget’s lantern “wasn’t just a flame” the Irish Foreign Ministry’s video explained, but something which “lit the torch for a movement”—that of modern feminism. Landmark achievements in this field are illustrated, such as a suffragette- holding a “Votes For Women” banner, marchers brandishing placards demanding legal state-subsidized condoms and birth-control, a girl with a nose-ring celebrating the legalization of lesbian marriage, and other liberated females cheering the legalization of abortion, both of which measures passed following successful referendums in their favor in 2015 and 2018 respectively.

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Unexpectedly for a Catholic saint who died over 1,000 years ago, and for whom gay marriage and abortion alike would have been complete moral abominations, St. Brigid played a leading role in securing the “Yes” campaign in the above two votes. Simply by lying that Brigid was herself both a lesbian and an early abortionist, the saint was easily co-opted by Leftists to become the earliest “Yes” campaigner in Irish history.

Irish gay magazines now contain laughably anachronistic profiles boasting that St. Brigid was in a close sapphic relationship with a young nun named Darlughdach, with whom the older Abbess purportedly shared a bed in the Abbey of Kildare. This now means St. Brigid spent her days “defying various standards and expectations to live her own authentic life” as a proud and out lesbian in fifth-century Ireland, an openly alternative lifestyle she somehow managed to pursue without ever being arrested, assaulted, burned at the stake, or excommunicated.

According to Irish Women’s Studies professor Ger Moane, a self-styled expert on “the Irish psyche,” Brigid was “totally anti-establishment,” and an innately “liminal” or “threshold” figure, in the sense she was borderline, neither one thing nor the other, like a transgenderist. Not only was Brigid “born between night and day” to a pagan father and a Christian mother, she also ran her Abbey for both female nuns and male monks simultaneously. So, there’s your evidence: St. Brigid allowed men into her Abbey too, so that means she was a lesbian. One can only imagine how even gayer she would have been if she’d stuck to only admitting females.

A Moral Abortion

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ, their version of PBS or the BBC, published an online St. Brigid’s Day article by Dr. Karen Ward, who is neither a doctor of Medicine nor of History, but a “Counselling Psychotherapist and Shamanic Energy Therapist” who informed her gullible RTÉ audience as follows:

It’s important to highlight the fact that St Brigid came from the early Irish Christian tradition which was far more progressive than today’s Catholic Church … Brigid is the embodiment of true Christianity, renowned for her compassion, healing gifts and care for the poor and sick. The Saint is an anomaly for modern Catholicism in that she was Ireland’s first recorded abortionist and a lesbian – both facts are recorded by medieval monks in the Annals.

What is this “fact” of St. Brigid being “Ireland’s first recorded abortionist” the learned shamaness speaks of? Writing around 650AD, the monk-chronicler Cogitosus in his Vita Sanctae Brigitae, told of how:

A certain woman who had taken the vow of chastity fell [into sexual sin], through youthful desire of pleasure, and her womb swelled with child. Brigid, exercising the most potent strength of her ineffable faith, blessed her, causing the child to disappear, without coming to birth, and without pain.

In the run-up to Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum, pieces by liberal Religious Studies academics like Maeve Callan suddenly began appearing in national newspapers, arguing that many medieval saints had performed miraculous abortions almost as a matter of routine, and that killing a baby was actually “a relatively minor offense” in the highly liberal and woke Catholicism of the day. The implication was clear: to vote “Yes” to legalizing abortion was, when considered properly, the only truly Christian thing to do.

Bizarrely, campaigners began relabeling abortions as a form of magical heavenly blessing, bestowed upon grateful women by God from above, before later being cruelly snatched away from them by the evil priestly patriarchy. Just look at this pathetic clip from an Irish daytime TV chat-show, in which a female pro-abortion activist pretends to believe in Brigid’s abortion-magic, before advising any women wavering about whether or not to go and have their child euthanized stop thinking of it in terms of “I went for an abortion,” and begin cheerily saying “I went for a miracle” instead.

The website of the Abortion Support Network, meanwhile, which raises money to allow Irishwomen to travel to gain abortions more easily, exploits St. Brigid’s legend to make killing your unborn child sound like the kind of twee and memorable procedure which could potentially one day be undergone by visitors to Disney Land Dublin:

Speaking of abortion miracles … you can make them happen too! What is funding someone’s abortion if not a kind of magic?

A kind of state-sanctioned murder, maybe? Or is it really just yet another excellent way of expediting the decline of the island’s native white population?

It seems curious that Ireland’s determinedly secularist Left-wing ruling class, who normally treat tales of miracles as fit only for empty-headed, potato-brained, priest-ridden peasants, see fit to treat this single miracle, alone of all those recorded from throughout Irish history, as being plausible. St. Patrick chases the snakes out of Ireland, and that’s just a fairy-tale; St Brigid waves her hand around, mutters a magic spell and murders a fetus, and that’s solid gold historical FACT. The actual solid gold fact that no biography of St. Brigid was written until over a century after her death, and that most of the stories told about her, including that of the magical abortion, are probably just hagiographical hearsay, remains oddly ignored by these ridiculous people.

Leo the Lyin’

There is a further problem with St. Brigid’s alleged leading of the Catholic faithful down the path towards mass lesbianism and a daily abortion pill to be washed down with a nice pint of Guinness every morning, however, and that is the consequent national collapse in fertility rates. The Catholic Irish were once so fecund that even rabbits and yeast-cells used to look at them with envy, but no longer. In 1965, an average Irishwoman had 4.01 children, which is double replacement level. Then came “progressive” modernity. Fifty years later, in 2015, Irish mothers had 1.97 children, which is just below replacement level. Today, the Irish fertility rate is as low as 1.5, which is solidly within Great Replacement territory.

“Global Ireland” is the marketing slogan the Department of Foreign Affairs’ film for St. Brigid’s Day 2026 displays at the end, which explains why the video is so full of black and brown women, doing wonderful black and brown women things, like staring vacantly into the camera whilst sporting strange haircuts and wearing bright African dresses. Besides being aimed at foreigners, then, the video is also full of them—but then, so is open borders Ireland these days, where nearly a quarter of the population was born somewhere other than upon fair Erin’s soil, something which is clearly a deliberate policy decision of the government intended to destroy the country’s age-old roots and traditional identity far more successfully than even several centuries of English colonialism did.

Supposedly, Ireland needs four million migrants over the next 30 years to sustain the old-age pension system, say Dublin pen-pushers: that’s in a nation whose entire national population didn’t hit four million in total until as late as 2004. Financial considerations may be a part of this open doors trend, but there is clearly more to it than that.

The deliberate official governmental conflation of St. Brigid with the pagan goddess Brigid in its online promotional materials caused distaste amongst some Irish people, but to the current Irish Establishment it was something to be celebrated. The Brigid of the new video being both pagan and Christian simultaneously was a bit like how, in the era of mass immigration, a supposed “Irishman” like Leo Varadkar, the recent former Irish Prime Minister, could be both Indian and Irish concurrently too, even though in truth he was actually about as authentically Celtic as Barack O’Bama. Anticipating the inevitable outcry over the diversity-polluted video, on January 30 Leo put out the following tweet:

How, within a Christian context, can someone be a “saint-goddess”? Catholicism is a religion which does not recognize pagan goddesses as being amongst the saints, so Varadkar’s words make no sense: but then, neither does the notion of a brown secular half-Indian ancestral Hindu being an ancestral Catholic Irishman. Éire ildaite, Varadkar ends his gloating message, meaning something like “Ireland is multicolored” in Gaelic; only since you and your corrupt co-conspirators in Dublin and in Davos deliberately colluded to make it so against the will of the majority of the actual Irish people, Leo. Using Gaelic as a medium to deliver a crass globalist slogan of accelerating white genocide is a new low, even for the likes of Darth Veda.

The next step, obviously, was to begin even more disingenuously repainting Brigid as a “saint-goddess” of mass immigration too. Every year, the Irish faux-feminist organization HerStory—a body so very ecumenically feminist it thinks men can be women too—celebrates St. Brigid’s Day by putting on light-shows across the nation, in which it projects large images of modern-day women who supposedly embody Brigid’s spirit onto buildings. Most “Modern Brigids” worshipped by HerStory predictably seem to be lesbians, trannies, and professional baby-killers, but here’s another one who is probably none of these things (except maybe possibly a baby-killer?), a woman named Fatin Al-Tamini, the current chair-goddess of the Irish-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign:

Nothing says “traditional Irish Catholicism” like a giant glowing image of a Palestinian Muslim wearing a keffiyeh. The structure in the background upon which Ms. Al-Tamini’s grinning visage is broadcast is Dublin’s General Post Office building, the very place where the famous Easter Rising of 1916 against British rule took place—or the “Irish Intifada” as it is soon due to be formally rechristened by Leo Varadkar.

HerStory Is Not History

An article in the Irish Examiner marking the first National St. Brigid’s Day in 2023 featured short interview profiles of several other equally non-traditional contemporary versions of St. Brigid designed explicitly to destroy her traditional image as a white Irish Christian.

One avatar of the goddess certainly had an Irish enough name, almost stereotypically so: Kitty Maguire. However, by her own admission, Kitty was “not a practicing Catholic” but instead a “yoga teacher and menstrual mentor.” What the hell does that mean? It means getting paid by more-money-then-sense liberal female mattoids to pretend to psychically channel the spirit of St. Brigid into her own body, and then hold weird New Age therapy sessions centering upon the topic of vaginal bloodshed:

In Kitty’s own work, she says the goddess Brigid acts as her guide and ‘ally’. She holds abortion care circles and hosts Red Alchemy courses, which run from five weeks to one year in duration, and center on the womb from menstruation to menopause weaving in Irish mythology and ancestral healing. Everyone from midwives to accountants, people on fertility journeys, people transitioning into perimenopause, and people who work in sport who want to learn more about women’s bodies, have taken her training. ‘When I hold any of my circles, I tune into Brigid asking her to be my guide, to be my ally. For me, Brigid was able to see the person that was in front of her, there was no judgement, she was just being of service to her community, she embodied compassion in a crisis. I identify with that. It even moves me now,’ says Kitty. ‘When I do the closing ceremony at Red Alchemy I anoint each person [with her menstrual blood?] as a red alchemist to Brigid, because Brigid is at the womb heart of it.’

Kitty shows off pussy: Kitty Maguire, a practitioner of “Red Alchemy,” channels the awesome feminine power of St Brigid down into her magically menstruating Delta of Venus, via a prayer of sacred triangular hand-play. Or something.

Kathy Scott, meanwhile, is “a cultural activist and producer” who founded her own feminist workshop called The Trailblazery, which hold “monthly events called Moon Medicine” at which participants are lied to that St. Brigid was somehow an intersectional feminist warrior against the patriarchy, or “a badass” as Kathy prefers to put it:

Brigid is a badass. She is an inspiration to me as the ultimate creatrix, trailblazer and carrier of the alchemical flame. When we align with her we tune into a powerful feminine creative life force that is rising all over the world. Her Irish name is Breo Saighit which means fiery arrow. In my own work facilitating large groups of women, I’ve come to see Brigid as a badass, a bridge between worlds and she’s a unifier. Brigid is also associated with the whistle, and what do we do with the whistle? We sound it as an alarm if someone is under threat. Brigid is a matron of whistleblowers, resisting herd instincts and speaking up for justice — I learned that from historian Dr Mary Condren … What is happening in the collective is Brigid is back from what [she] was contorted into [becoming within] that Christian space. She didn’t feel like a feminist icon to me in school. But when I started doing my work, it was in the hope of the feminine rising, and now she has truly risen — rising in both men and women.

You mean there’s a difference between the two? But I thought Brigid was a liminal goddess of transgenderism?

She probably is to Dee Mulrooney, a visual artist, spirit-channeler, and retard, who “using spoken word … alchemizes women’s pain through storytelling, singing and poetry.” In practice, what this appears to mean is that Dee performs on-stage dressed as “a 78-year-old vulva from the inner city of Dublin” called Growler, who talks to the ghost of Mary Magdalene and thinks St. Brigid was a prostitute:

‘I really started to connect in with her [St Brigid] when I started working with Mary Magdalene,’ says the artist. Mary and Brigid came to Dee around the same time as the story of the nearly 800 babies [discarded by nuns] in a septic tank in Tuam broke in 2014. ‘I never plan a picture, the work comes out fully formed. When I was working with Mary Magdalene and connected in with Brigid, I painted a picture of Mary and Brigid when [the story of] Tuam broke. There was this red cloak, and it was an effort to take those babies out of the septic tank and put them into clean soil. That blood was pure blood in the painting,’ says Dee … When Dee is painting Brigid she says she is ‘with her’ and that her energy and essence is anything but ‘pure’ … ‘The energy, when she comes through me, is very, very fertile, fiery, really fiery, juicy, she takes no shit and doesn’t mince her words, that’s the feeling I get. She’s also Brigid from the flats, [i.e., she lived in a low-rent council house] let’s not do what we did with [the Virgin] Mary like we did before and make her immaculate because women are all of these things — fish wives, sex workers, and the girl who gave birth in the grotto.’

Just to really blacken the true Catholic St. Brigid’s name by association to annoy any remaining Catholic readers amongst her newspaper’s subscriber-base even further, the Lefty journalist writing up all this rubbish concludes her piece thus:

Another famous Bridget … is Bridget Hitler. Although not named by Adolf Hitler, she was the sister-in-law of the German dictator, and was born Bridget Dowling in Dublin in 1891, and is found on the Irish Census of 1901, as living in Ballsbridge. She met Alois Hitler, half-brother to Adolf, at the Dublin Horse Show in 1909 and the pair eloped to London in 1910.

So, St. Brigid’s a Nazi now too, then, or at least a Nazi-shagger.

As a point of pure principle, the current reprehensible Irish Establishment, in government, media, and all the nation’s captured institutions, hates its own people as being nothing but a perceived untermenschen race of retarded, in-bred, mud-flecked Murphys, and wishes to destroy and replace them along with their equally hated white man’s bog-religion. St. Brigid has just become yet another morally inverted and perverted propaganda tool to enable them to do so.

On the surface, it may look as if, by giving St. Brigid her own new national public holiday, “progressive” 2020s Ireland wishes to maintain its links to her Catholic past, but the truth is the exact reverse. The country’s post-national and post-Christian rulers have merely sought to create a national holiday in worship of their own chosen secular sacraments of abortion, queerness, globalism, and feminism, using St. Brigid as a convenient “Catholic” disguise for the fact.

In the meantime, the Irish nation waits with bated breath to see how their quisling government will try to ruin St Patrick’s Day similarly this coming March 17th. As St. Patrick was famously once a slave, the best bet is that they will aim to replace his halo with an Afro.