Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed ...

The late pontiff’s funeral was broadcast around the world and into homes and places of worship across Ireland on Saturday – including Saint Alphonsus’ Monastery in Drumcondra. There, the ...

Members of the public in west Belfast and Londonderry have expressed "sadness" after the death of Pope Francis on Monday ...

Ireland’s earliest saints were known to take a prolonged period of reclusive prayer before founding a monastery. This theory is worth reconsidering, but there remains a lot about these monuments ...

It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of ... and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this ...

More than a millennium after they were carried abroad for safekeeping, a collection of early Irish monastic manuscripts is returning to Ireland for a landmark exhibition at the National Museum in Dubl ...

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 ...

Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed in 1177 by the Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy. The Cistercian ...