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 ...

His parents came from Munster. The infant Fursey was baptized by St. Brendan the Navigator, founder of Clonfert Monastery. When Fursey grew up he became a monk at Clonfert in Galway in Ireland, under ...

Adjudicator orders Little Sisters of the Poor to give Geraldine Baxter two years’ pay in redress over ‘extraordinary’ sacking ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the ruins of Kilmacduagh Monastery in Ireland’s County Galway, an unusual parch mark emerged outside a blocked doorway. Before that doorway was walled up, however, the passage, dating to the ...