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 ...

A drawing from a geophysical survey of area around Deer Abbey Fresh efforts are to be made to locate the site of a lost early monastery connected to the Book of Deer, a 10th Century illuminated ...

Blindboy Boatclub offers a fresh perspective on the legacy of early Irish Christianity in Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars. Watch the classroom version for the Junior Cycle here.

The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...