All you need to know about bank holidays in Ireland

Analysis: We love our bank holiday s in Ireland , but where did they come from, who gets to decide when they are - and when's the next one?

We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences No prizes for guessing that banks are in fact the reason we call them bank holidays. All the way back in 1871, when Ireland was still under British rule, it was the Bank Holidays Act that introduced four days off: St Stephen’s Day if it’s a weekday — referred to as the 26th day of December, not Boxing Day or St Stephen’s Day — the first Monday in August, Easter Monday and Whit Monday.

Fast forward another couple of decades and Ireland becomes a Free State. At this point in history the Public Holidays Act is essentially passed to right a technical legal issue and to officially repeal the UK acts. Dennehy says Kevin O'Higgins, who was serving as Vice-President of the Executive Council at the time, described the bill as"not of any importance".

"I would ask the Minister favourably to consider the insertion of a clause in the Bill ensuring to workmen who are given a holiday by statute that they shall have their day's pay for that holiday. I think it would be a popular proposal, and I am sure it would do justice to men who are deprived by statute of an opportunity for earning their living.

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