In a move marking a significant turning point for the Cistercian Oder of Ireland, the monks at the historic Mellifont Abbey ...

Offaly's Mount St Joseph's Abbey near Roscrea will become the new temporary home of monks and lay brothers from the historic ...

David was another inspiration, and I wanted to write about our lives, about Ireland in the 1980s and ... as a guest house and rental cottage on the monastery’s 500-acre grounds in Co Limerick ...

In his fascinating new RTÉ One documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars, writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub explores ...

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 ...

According to legendary sources, while Patrick was in Gaul he visited the island monastery at Lérins, a famous centre of Orthodoxy in the West. Before returning to Ireland he was ordained at Auxerre, ...

It is remarkable that little historical evidence has remained about the saint who is venerated as Apostle to the Irish, while legends surrounding him abound. The only documentary sources regarding his ...