LÁ FHÉILE BRÍDE SONA DAOIBH ☘️🔥

Dublin, Ireland,  January 30, 2026 ‍

Saint Brigid (c. 451–525 AD) was renowned for her extraordinary generosity and remarkable skill with #preciousmetals and #gold and #silver in metalwork and smithing in #Ireland.
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We celebrate Saint Brigid's Day this Sunday, February 1st  — honouring Ireland's beloved saint and abbess of Kildare and one of our three patron saints along with Saint Patrick and Saint Colmcille.

The ancient hagiographies tell us she worked closely with smiths and #goldsmiths, personally crafting sacred vessels, chalices, and liturgical objects from #airgead (silver in Gaelic or Irish) and #ór (gold in Gaelic or Irish).

Tradition holds she fashioned a magnificent crown for the King of Leinster and created ornate metalwork for churches across #Éire.

Her monastery at Kildare or Coill Dara - the forest of oak - kept an eternal flame burning, tended by her sisters for centuries — fire being essential to both the spiritual life, warm food and sustenance and the metalworker's art.

#Preciousmetals were woven into the very fabric of ancient Ireland and the Celtic Christian world. They were a key focus of and motivation of the Vikings, the Normans and Crown invaders and their minions.

The great monasteries were centres of extraordinary gold and silver craftsmanship — producing illuminated manuscript covers, reliquaries, croziers, and altar vessels of breathtaking beauty.

Think of the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara Brooch, the Derrynaflan Hoard.

Irish monks and metalworkers were famed throughout Europe for their skill.

Gold and silver were not mere decoration but sacred offerings — the most precious gifts of the earth transformed through fire and skill into objects of devotion and beauty.

Like all Celtic Christian saints, Brigid held deep reverence for nature's sacred gifts — fire, water, trees, and the metals drawn from the earth. She understood what the old Irish knew well: that gold and silver held a sacred quality, embodying permanence, purity, and divine light.

The saint inherited much from her namesake — the Goddess Brigid of the Tuatha Dé Danann, patroness of the forge, poetry, and sacred flame. The pre-Christian Irish venerated the smith's craft as sacred alchemy — the transformation of raw ore into gleaming gold and silver through the marriage of earth, fire, and human skill and ingenuity

At Tara Coins, we honour this ancient Irish tradition of sacred metalcraft.

Our Tree of Life coins carry forward a lineage stretching back millennia — when gold and silver were not merely #commodities but symbols of sovereignty, blessing, and enduring value.

Go mbeannaí Bríd daoibh — May Brigid bless us all
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