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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...