Important European universities began as Irish monasteries, built by literati that left Ireland with the education to teach the chaotic post-Roman world to read. Old Irish books are tortured ...

Continue reading Brian Sloan, from Queen's University Belfast who was helping to guide the team, said Erenagh's significance was in it being one of the first Cistercian monasteries in Ireland.

Along the same lines, you have done a lot of research on monastic life in medieval Ireland, some of which you presented at the Burns Lecture earlier this month. The common perception of monasteries is ...

It has often been said that there is no history without geography. Ireland is the most westerly landmass of Europe, situated between the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

Spike Island has been host to a 7th century monastery, a 24-acre fortress ... 17 years after independence, to the Irish state in 1938 as the British negotiated for the retention of Spike Island ...

In the sixth century, a little boy with the ancient Irish name of Fiacre was raised in a monastery near Kilferagh in County Kilkenny. He was the illegitimate son of a Scottish king. Monasteries ...

Along the same lines, you have done a lot of research on monastic life in medieval Ireland, some of which you presented at the Burns Lecture earlier this month. The common perception of monasteries is ...

"They took a European model, so if you think of the old Irish monasteries like a Nendrum, you'd have a round tower with your church in the centre. "But with this you'd have a cloister. That's a ...