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

The writer and podcaster's documentary, Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars, explores the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, hermits, saints and monasteries, to try to find ...

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 ...

At the time, Ireland had been Christian for at least three centuries, and its monasteries were its wealthiest and most powerful institutions. Early medieval texts refer to the Vikings as simply ...

With input from historians and local experts, Blindboy interrogates our early medieval ... what did Irish Christian missionaries, hermits, and monasteries contribute to the Irish writing tradition?

This is what makes early Irish literature so rich ... the church (that is to say the monasteries) and the filidh had come to terms and from that time on there is evidence of an ever-increasing ...

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 ...

It is the first early medieval text to be discovered ... Christianity was well established, and many monasteries had sprung up across Ireland. "The most likely source of this manuscript is ...

Monasteries were important seats of art, knowledge and devotion in the early days of Christianity, and Irish monasteries protected their treasures and the people living near them. The monks ...