In a move marking a significant turning point for the Cistercian Oder of Ireland, the monks at the historic Mellifont Abbey ...
Abbot Columba McCann - the seventh abbot of Glenstal Abbey - was elected by his community of 28 Benedictine monks earlier ...
Step back in time when you visit Kylemore Abbey, a beautiful, large estate located within County Galway, only an hour away ...
It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of ... and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this ...
Inishark Island, County Galway, Ireland ...
castles rocked by bloody sieges and stunning monastic sites that once drew scholars from all over Europe. Welcome to Ireland's Ancient East, a vast playground of incredible history, compelling ...
Monks at the monastery wrote the important 10th Century ... for playing a group of medieval games popular in Scandinavia and Ireland. He said: "The seventh to eighth century radiocarbon ...
The first recorded Viking raid on Ireland was in AD795. This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast, was just the beginning of many years of Viking attacks on Christian ...