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 the st, peace, cross and/or town:
“There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace but a peace I hope with honour.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“That’s a sucker game, Doc. There’s probably fifty fellows around town just waitin’ to see you get liquored up, so they can fill ya full of holes. Build themselves up a great reputation—the man that killed Doc Holliday.”
—Samuel G. Engel (1904–1984)