First day of Spring in Ireland...Feb 1st

First day of Spring in Ireland...Feb 1st (yesterday)!, originally uploaded by Ina galway.

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"1 February, is the traditional first day of spring in Ireland.
St Brigids day.In the Irish Calendar Spring is counted as the whole months of February, March and April.The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centers the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), beginning the seasons at the approximate halfway points between solstice and equinox, following the seasons of the ancient Celts (see below) which are pre-Christian in origin."

St Brigid