New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

The National Museum of Ireland has launched a landmark exhibition exploring early medieval Ireland and its impact on Europe, called 'Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe'.

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

More than 5,000 years of history are revealed through colossal passage tombs, the beehive huts of early monasteries, and more iconic landmarks. Here are Irish places of curiosity, pilgrimage ...

They abandoned their relationships, jobs, and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn from the nuns of today?

offer rare insight into daily life in medieval monasteries. "These books are key to an understanding of ourselves, our language and our links with the continent," he said. "Their value and importance ...

In ancient and early medieval Ireland, there were no towns or cities ... says that he walked to Rome to ask the Pope to make his monastery at Glendalough a special place of pilgrimage,” says ...

In Ireland, whether you’re sipping a Guinness, slicing into an inky black blood sausage, or devouring any number of potato ...

This scholarly work is a valuable contribution to the overall history of monasticism in Ireland as it explores “the hidden years” of that tradition, following its much vaunted “golden age ...

Blindboy doesn’t believe in any God or religion, and yet, in this documentary ‘The Land of Slaves and Scholars’, he decides to explore the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, hermits, ...

Blindboy doesn’t believe in any god or religion, and yet, in this documentary, he decides to explore the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, hermits, saints and monasteries ...