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 ...
St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy ...
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 ...