Colmán Ó Clabaigh, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, is spending the spring semester at Boston College as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies. A specialist in ...

People and wealth moved along the pilgrimage routes of Europe, sparking the building of Romanesque churches to welcome travelers and house holy relics. The eight-sided bell tower of the Basilica of ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first time in a millennium. The new exhibition also features more than 100 ...

A medieval composite pen made out of animal bone and a copper alloy was found in an 11th-century settlement in Ireland. The tool's secular setting is a rare find, as literacy in Ireland was generally ...