The monastery, as you mentioned, it's from the fourth century, and the history is just incredible. They have so many culinary ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

Ireland’s earliest saints were known to take a prolonged period of reclusive prayer before founding a monastery. This theory is worth reconsidering, but there remains a lot about these monuments ...

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 ...

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand yesterday, destroying buildings, bridges and a monastery.

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 ...

Mar. 17, millions of Americans throughout the nation dressed up in green and celebrated Irish culture on St. Patrick’s Day, a ...

Work to preserve an ancient monastic site in Northern Ireland has been completed. Devenish Island is on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. Conservation work was carried out on some of the remaining ...