Monastic life is not for everyone, but for those who choose to live one, they now have a few options when it comes to ...

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill?

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

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

As well as ruins of the medieval hospital, there is also a Tudor fireplace backstage, and a Roman well directly underneath ...

At the exhibition’s heart are 17 manuscripts on loan from the Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland, a seventh-century library, in a city named after the Irish monk, St. Gall, that is home to ...

Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a ...

From presenting the Black Death Outbreak of the medieval times to making films on post-apocalyptic worlds and zombie ...

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

Children were supposed to learn the lesson that while we might have become peripheral, once upon a time we Irish rescued ...

The National Museum of Ireland has launched a landmark exhibition exploring early medieval Ireland and its impact on Europe, called 'Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe'.