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First Monday of February, or on 1 February if it is a Friday. [2] [3] Co-celebrated with the traditional festival of Imbolc . 17 March. Saint Patrick's Day. Lá Fhéile Pádraig. National day. Became an official public holiday in Ireland in 1903. [4] Moveable Monday.
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal has the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week. But in 2023 India has 365 holidays which 17 Gazetted holidays and more than 340 restricted holidays.
In 2020, the early May bank holiday originally set for Monday 4 May was moved to Friday 8 May to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day. In 2022, there was a special holiday on Friday 3 June to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Spring Bank Holiday was moved to Thursday 2 June to create a four-day weekend.
Bank holiday. A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, and a colloquial term for a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland. In the United Kingdom, the term refers to all public holidays, be they set out in statute, declared by royal proclamation, or held by convention under common law.
Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, lit. 'the Day of the Festival of Patrick'), is a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( c. 385 – c. 461 ), the foremost patron saint of Ireland . Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day ...
Frequency. Annual. First time. 1871. The August Holiday ( Irish: Lá Saoire i mí Lúnasa ), also called the August Bank Holiday, is observed in Ireland on the first Monday of August. [1] [2] It was first observed in 1871, when it was created by the UK Act of Parliament, the Bank Holidays Act 1871 .
The public holidays are the religious holidays of the Church of Iceland and the First Day of Summer, May Day, the Icelandic National Day. In addition, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are holidays from 1PM. There are also twelve official flag days in Iceland, some of which are not public holidays. On a flag day all government buildings fly the ...
Holidays. Bank Status. 2021. 2022. 2023. New Year’s Day. Federal Reserve holiday; most U.S. banks will be closed. Friday, Jan. 1. Saturday, Jan. 1. Sunday, Jan. 1