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 ...

The Celtic monasteries, in contrast, were organized to save other people’s souls. So Patrick’s monasteries shared with all monasteries the function of being a place of withdrawal, but they were unique ...

For many of us it’s impossible to contemplate a monastic existence of prayer and self-denial on this bacchanalia known as St.Patrick’s Day. Notorious for overindulgence, the holiday sus… ...

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 ...

Dublin, Ireland, Nov 13, 2019 / 14:51 pm. A group broke into an Irish Carmelite monastery during the daytime, vandalized its chapel and shouted slurs at the elderly nuns who lived there on Monday.

The Irish have a learned tradition that is unique to Europe and which helped flip the continent from barbaric illiteracy in Dark Ages, to the illumination and bookishness that would become western ...

The Irish Government took possession in the 1820s to erect two lighthouses. One became automated in the 1980s, maintaining a still much-needed beacon on the Atlantic side, where the seas are ...