where the Irish name Spideog Mhuire, Mary’s robin, is used for the bird. While Christmas Day carries hope and joy at the infant birth, Saint Stephen’s day awaits with a very different story of ...

A chara, – The robin has excellent credentials for inclusion in religiously-themed Christmas stamps. In Irish tradition, the robin (spideog) was beannaithe, that is, blessed or holy, and has a ...

The Irish Connection The pioneering work on ... are likely to find more than a pair of Robins together is on a Christmas card. Robin (photo by Clive Timmons / BirdWatch Ireland) The song has ...

Join the challenge that’s got the UK stumped – see if you can spot the cute robin hidden within a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The clock’s ticking – can you find it in under 15 ...

A hundred years ago, illustrations of the robin were often used to illustrate Christmas cards ... by women seated at trestle tables. The Irish version had sprigs of real shamrock placed on ...

She said: "Christmas without Robin will be hard for me. But coming to the Isle of Man and visiting the children at Rebecca House brings me solace. Robin felt so desperately sorry for all the ...

When RJ was little, Robin would dress up as Father Christmas, with pillows stuffed into his red tunic and make up strange names for the reindeer. "He'd also transform himself into imaginary ...

The Irish have a close connection with the ... The other bird closely associated with Christmas is the robin, the doyen of the Christmas card. The association of this bird with Christmas seems ...

On a visit to one suburban Post Office, I found the walls garishly plastered with pictures of what Ms McHugh calls a festive robin by way of advertising for Christmas stamps. At no point of this ...