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 ...
A tribunal has said it has no authority to rule on a claim that an aspiring monk was denied a place in a monastery because he mentioned that his father was a Traveller. The Workplace Relations ...
As a consequence of this quest the Irish became great missionaries. In 563 Colum Cille set sail from Derry to found a new monastery. Conall, 6th King of Dalriada, granted him Iona, a small island off ...
Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks devoted to the sixth-century Irish missionary St Columba, who is credited with spreading Christianity ...