There, they will form a new community to be known as Our Lady of Silence. Cistercian monks first came to Ireland in 1142, at the invitation of St Malachy of Armagh, making their initial foundation ...

The “Annals of the Four Masters’, compiled by Irish monks in the 17th century, tells of a wondrous happening in the year 558: “In this year was taken the mermaid, Líban…in the net of ...

Melleray was founded in 1832 by a group of 64 Irish Cistercian monks, who were forced to leave their monastery at Melleray in Brittany when the French revolution of 1830 led to the introduction of ...

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 ...

A Stunning & Dramatic Irish Island Once Inhabited by Monks Over seven miles off the Irish coast, lie the sea crags of Skellig Michael, a breathtaking island once home to a community of reclusive monks ...

Unlike the rest of the population who generally couldn’t read or write, it was left to highly educated monks to record the events of the time. Written in a mixture of Irish and Latin ...

AKA The Monk" is a major new two-part documentary series from RTÉ’s award-winning documentary team which has been almost a year in the making.

run by the Cistercian monks in Waterford. Mount Melleray Abbey, near Cappoquin, will close on Saturday, almost two centuries after it was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to ...

GANG boss Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is back in Lanzarote ... the ­Spanish judiciary that he is unlikely to face trial, The Irish Sun on Sunday understands. The 61-year-old Dubliner was ...