In this gallery, we travel back in time to bring you some mesmerizing facts about medieval monks. Click on to find out all ...

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

THE medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

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

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

I was seduced by lush countryside and tales of wayward monks at a medieval Northumberland bolthole! By Richard Ord. Deputy Editor. Comment. Published 2nd Jun 2025, 21:41 BST.

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

Route length: 2.2km (1.4 miles). The optimal route makes use of the networks of passages around Fleet Street and Strand.

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 ...

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'.