While it may typically be used to 'get a rise' from Cork natives, the expression that hell was based on the rebel county ...

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 ...

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 ...

His surprise run for the Dáil was made while Irish Times crime and security correspondent Conor Gallagher was working on a new RTÉ documentary called Gerry Hutch: AKA The Monk. Today ...

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.

“The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will happen.” Mount Melleray staff member Christina O’Flynn’s tone was ...

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 ...