Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...

A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects. —G.K. Chesterton Skellig Michael is a 700-foot-high pinnacle of water-and-wind-worn rock that rises like Excalibur out of the Atlantic waves ...

Romantic 'poetic decay' notions have left Ireland with crumbling abbeys, monasteries, and friaries. We should be inspired by ...

History credits monasteries for carrying classical thought, art and culture through the violent, chaotic years following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Internally ordered and disciplined, these ...

Storm-damaged trees at Lemanaghan bog expose early medieval burials, shedding new light on St Manchán’s monastery ...

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...