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Irish public holidays in 2027

The 2027 calendar, worked out from the same rules as every other year — and with one date that looks like a coincidence and is not: the February holiday falls on 1 February, by the ordinary rule rather than by the exception that also names that date.

Irish public holidays in 2027: the date, the day it falls on, and the rule that produces it.
HolidayDateDayThe rule
New Year’s Day1 January 2027Fridaya fixed calendar date
St Brigid’s Day1 February 2027Mondaythe first Monday of the month, the 1st not being a Friday
St Patrick’s Day17 March 2027Wednesdaya fixed calendar date
Easter Monday29 March 2027Mondaythe day after Easter Sunday
May Day3 May 2027Mondaythe first Monday of the month
June bank holiday7 June 2027Mondaythe first Monday of the month
August bank holiday2 August 2027Mondaythe first Monday of the month
October bank holiday25 October 2027Mondaythe last Monday of the month
Christmas Day25 December 2027Saturdaya fixed calendar date
St Stephen’s Day26 December 2027Sundaya fixed calendar date
Irish public holidays in 2027: the date, the day it falls on, and the rule that produces it. Resolved from the statutory rules in this site's payload, not from a stored list of dates.

The date that looks like the exception and is not

The February holiday in 2027 falls on 1 February 2027. That is the same date the exception in S.I. No. 50 of 2022 names — regulation 5 says that in a year where 1 February falls on a Friday, the holiday is 1 February.

But that is not why it lands there this year. In 2027, 1 February is a Monday — so the ordinary rule in regulation 4, the first Monday in February, produces the 1st all by itself. The exception is not engaged.

The distinction has no practical consequence for anyone taking the day off, and it is exactly the kind of thing that makes a calculator wrong three years later. A system that applied the exception whenever the two dates happened to coincide would produce the right answer in 2027 and the wrong one in a year where they did not — so this site’s engine checks the weekday, and its test suite has a case asserting that the override did NOT fire this year. The next year in which it genuinely does is 2030.

What moved since 2026

The same ten holidays in 2026 and 2027, side by side.
Holiday20262027Day in 2027
New Year’s Day1 January 20261 January 2027Friday
St Brigid’s Day2 February 20261 February 2027Monday
St Patrick’s Day17 March 202617 March 2027Wednesday
Easter Monday6 April 202629 March 2027Monday
May Day4 May 20263 May 2027Monday
June bank holiday1 June 20267 June 2027Monday
August bank holiday3 August 20262 August 2027Monday
October bank holiday26 October 202625 October 2027Monday
Christmas Day25 December 202625 December 2027Saturday
St Stephen’s Day26 December 202626 December 2027Sunday
The same ten holidays in 2026 and 2027, side by side. Both columns resolved from the same statutory rules.

Easter Monday is the row that moves furthest, because Easter does. It is the only holiday in the Irish calendar tied to a computus rather than to a calendar date or a weekday ordinal, and it can land anywhere from late March to late April.

The Second Schedule names “Easter Monday” and does not define Easter, so the choice of computus is the calculator’s. This site computes Western (Gregorian) Easter, which is the date Easter Monday has in fact fallen on in the State every year. That is stated rather than assumed, in the payload, next to the rule.

Weekends

Public holidays falling at a weekend in 2027. None of them moves.
HolidayDateDay
Christmas Day25 December 2027Saturday
St Stephen’s Day26 December 2027Sunday
Public holidays falling at a weekend in 2027. None of them moves. The Second Schedule provides no substitute day; see the entitlement page for what you get instead.

Two at a weekend in 2027, back to back. Neither moves to the following Monday, and the entitlement in each case is one of the four options the employer chooses between — set out here. In practice, for most employees on a Monday-to-Friday contract, this is the case where the fourth option (an additional day’s pay) or the third (an extra day of annual leave) is the one that applies.

Counting working days across these

If you are working out a notice period or a deadline that crosses a holiday, the date difference calculator takes the public holidays out of a working-day count automatically — using this same payload, so the two pages cannot disagree about which days those are.