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These are the public holidays observed in Ireland. [1] Public holidays in Ireland (as in other countries) may commemorate a special day or other event, such as Saint Patrick's Day or Christmas Day. On public holidays, most businesses and schools close. Other services, for example, public transport, still operate but often with reduced schedules.
In the northern hemisphere, the longest break in the educational calendar is in the middle of the year, during the northern summer, and lasting up to 14 weeks. [6] In Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia, summer holidays typically last three months, compared to six to eight weeks in Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany.
The Irish calendar is the Gregorian calendar as it is in use in Ireland, but also incorporating Irish cultural festivals and views of the division of the seasons, presumably inherited from earlier Celtic calendar traditions. Winter - November, December, January (Samhain, Nollaig, Eanáir)
(H) = public holiday. 1 January – New Year's Day. (H) 6 January – Nollaig na mBan. 8–11 January – Young Scientist Exhibition. 1 February – Imbolc. 3 February – Saint Brigid's holiday. (H) 20 February–2 March – Dublin International Film Festival. 1–8 March – Irish Astronomy Week. 17 March – Saint Patrick's Day. (H)
A New History of Ireland: Vol. VII Ireland, 1921-84 (1976) pp 711–56 online; Akenson, Donald H. The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century (1981; 2nd ed 2014) Akenson, Donald H. A Mirror to Kathleen's Face: Education in Independent Ireland, 1922–60 (1975) Connell, Paul.
There is a two-week difference between the start of the holiday in the first region and that in the last region. The summer holidays will start in 2023, the Central Netherlands is the first region to be affected, on July 8 and the end date of the school holidays is August 27 for the South of the Netherlands.
Holidays feature a steep rise in accommodation cost, due to increased demand. The English tourism industry monitors websites that provide up-to-date school holiday information, and adjusts prices accordingly. Prices often drop by hundreds of pounds one week into the new school term. Most schools have a strict policy against school absences.
1 March – SSE plc, Northern Ireland's largest supplier of gas, announces it will cut its prices by 22.8% from April. [49]4 March – Funding for Northern Ireland's only free specialist counselling service for victims of sexual violence is extended for a year as a replacement provider had not been lined up in time for the expiry of the contract with Nexus on 31 March.