Walking inside its chapels’ tumbled walls and seeing birds nesting in its silent bell towers, it’s hard to believe that this was once one of Europe‘s great universities. Clonmacnoise was founded by St ...

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, Vol. 92C, No. 4 (1992), pp. 123-146 (24 pages) In 1861 two gold objects, allegedly found at Clonmacnoise, were ...

Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) honoured two of its guide staff at a special ceremony at Farmleigh House in Dublin's Phoenix Park today, October 4. The staff, Anthony Ryan and Aidan Doyle, were ...

Earlier in this series we saw a carved wooden crook from Viking Dublin. Its similarity to this gorgeous bishop’s crozier from the great Irish monastery of Clonmacnoise is striking. Nothing could ...

Just back from two weeks in Ireland with my friends Fr. Bill and Fr. Patrick, where I went to get some perspective on life and the world, including recent events such as the U.S. killing of Gaddafi, ...

It was an absolutely perfect day for traveling. The moon still continued its waning phase, the clouds were a soft orange/peach bunches of fluff in the sky, and we were well rested. Coffee got us off ...

Vegetation history derived from pollen analysis of an Irish midlands raised bog is presented. The profile has been radiocarbon dated and covers the period from late Neolithic to early Christian times ...