In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental Europe. Written during ...

A survivor of Sean Ross Abbey has accused Norma Foley of avoiding survivors’ demands for excavation and more meaningful ...

The result was the Cross-Border Orchestra of Ireland, ... Her first collaboration in 1995 involved just two schools - her own and the Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar in Newry, ...

The hidden side of Ireland’s built heritage is reflected in a series of new books. The architectural historian Robert O’Byrne, who runs the blog The Irish Aesthete, has compiled Buildings of ...

Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an ...

After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.

Found in 1986 and following a 39-year conservation project, Ireland's oldest and largest medieval book shrine is now on view.

Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 / 04:00 am. Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain ...

Those celebrations begin on Sunday, December 8, when a bust of Willie Hayes will be unveiled following a special celebratory mass at 2.30pm. Willie Hayes was a curate in the abbey at the time and ...

Northern Ireland Dramatic new photos show bones of close to 150 bodies found following complex dig at site of medieval abbey in Carrickfergus Most of the bodies were male, a number female and ...

The Cross-Border Orchestra of Ireland is conducted by its exuberant musical director Greg Beardsell CBoI The youth orchestra plays a mix of pop, rock, trad, classical and even some '90s dance music ...