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 ...

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

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 ...

For decades, convicted criminal Gerry “The Monk” Hutch has attracted huge public and media attention wherever he goes. For the first time on television, the two-part documentary series "Gerry ...

“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 ...