St. Ciaran of Ireland, also known as Ciaran the Younger, is a significant figure in Irish monastic history.

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

Comer explained: “Whilst he is mainly associated with the saint’s main foundation on Iona — probably founded around 562 — the monastic institutions he established would later spread ...

Interestingly, she observes how the view of early Irish monasticism as “a ‘Celtic’ deviation” arose from more recent, post-Reformation, scholarship which was influenced by the politics of ...

More than 1,200 years ago Celtic monks painstakingly recorded the Book of Kells. The religious text brings medieval art, ... where the book was kept in the monastery for several hundred years.