The St. Brigid's Peace Cross and St. Brigid's Fire, Kildare Town
With five young boys from Derry, Mullan founded in 1983 the St. Brigid’s Peace Cross and was instrumental in having St. Brigid’s Fire in Kildare permanently rekindled on 1 February 2006. The fire had burned in Kildare for over a thousand years before it was extinguished during the Protestant Reformation.
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Famous quotes containing the words peace, cross and/or town:
“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
“Expecting me to grovel,
she carefully covers both feet
with the hem of her skirt.
She pretends to hide
a coming smile
and won’t look straight at me.
When I talk to her,
she chats with her friend
in cross tones.
Even this slim girl’s rising anger
delights me,
let alone her deep love.”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)