This interactive museum details 1,500 years of Irish history, with stories of the 100 million people who left Ireland, how and where they lived, and their impact on the rest of the world.

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.

(Getty Museum) Review by Michael Dirda “The Book of Kells,” “The Lindisfarne Gospels” and “The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” are not just illuminated manuscripts from the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2014) - Do you know how Vikings and the Book of Kells are connected? Have you ever heard a minstrel play a Norse Jorvik panpipe? Learn about this and more at ...

Not only is the Book of Kells one of the country’s biggest tourist ... Others have called for the manuscript to be relocated to a national museum, where the public can access it free of charge.

The Book of Kells is still on display and there will be a new exhibit about this important manuscript. U.S. News Insider Tip: This must-see attraction is worth the (typically) long wait.

I’m hoping that this year my wife, Kathy, and I will get to stand in front of the Book of Kells. Unless you’re a history or art buff or have followed the reproduction of the Bible through the ...

Rachel Moss works for Trinity College Dublin. In the past she has received funding from the Irish Research Council and Bank of America Merrill Lynch for research work relevant to this article.

Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks devoted to the sixth-century Irish missionary St Columba, who is credited with spreading Christianity ...