According to their website, HerStory think “it’s time to rewrite history and are actively campaigning for a public holiday for “Brigid’s Day” on the 1st February.
The Green Party are backing the ongoing Herstory campaign.
HerStory is a feminist movement who under a different brand were hyper active during the Abortion and Same Sex marriage referendums in Ireland. They use powerful Jim Fitzpatrick style imagery to promote their brand of feminism. In fact Jim Fitzpatrick is on the Herstory Board of Trustees.
There are no financial statements on their website so we do not know how they are funded but their collaborators include The National Women’s Council of Ireland, Oxford University, The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, the goddess club to name but a few.
Herstory describes itself as “a legacy project and a permanent digital educational resource that will give the public awe-inspiring female role models for generations to come. … with the Marriage Equality Referendum and the Referendum to Repeal the 8th Amendment – both extraordinary victories of compassion”.
During the same sex marriage and abortion referendums, Herstory promoted the narrative that Saint Brigid was the same mythical godess of pagan times.
On Saint Brigid’s Day last year, RTE partnered with Herstory to promote this narrative and project illuminations of Brigid the pagan goddess.
Whilst there was a mythical godess called Brigid, there is no link whatsoever with Saint Brigid. They share the same name and this is the foundation for Herstory to claim our Christian Saint as one of their own.
Given the recent attack on Christian Faith by RTE, they decided to run with a traditional Saint Brigid’s day news segment last night and abandoned the HerStory narrative of paganism and goddesses.
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