On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...

Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland ...

St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland every year on 17 March. Over the years, the religious holiday commemorating ...

An early Christian monastic site, now uninhabited, Ireland’s Eye lies just off the Dublin coastline. St. Nessan founded a monastery here in the sixth century and today the remains of an eighth ...

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 ...

With the clarity of a seasoned journalist and the humility of a long-time practitioner, Kilroy brings Zen down from mist-shrouded monasteries and roots it in the damp earth of Ireland – our ...

castles rocked by bloody sieges and stunning monastic sites that once drew scholars from all over Europe. Welcome to Ireland's Ancient East, a vast playground of incredible history, compelling ...

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 ...