The Hackley Public Library stuns with its high ceilings and painted-glass windows. There’s plenty to discover in Muskegon’s ...

By tradition he is considered to be one of the leading figures in the Irish monastic movement known as the Culdees (Celi-De) that flourished mostly in Ireland and Scotland from the eighth to the ...

Written in a mixture of Irish and Latin, the Annals of Ulster documented the increasingly frequent attacks on monasteries and churches by the Vikings. The Irish Christian communities were not ...

The Celtic-speaking countries had virtually no urban centres; the abbot in his monastery was more revered than the bishop in his cathedral and there was little of the Roman-type bureaucracy.