In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental Europe. Written during ...

How Irish Whiskey Came To America The Irish were distilling (and, some may say, perfecting) their whiskey for hundreds of years before they brought it to the States (thanks to those monks).

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Emma Donoghue about her new book, Haven. In it, three Irish monks in the Middle Ages choose to live a life of isolation on a rocky island.

An ancient site located just an hour outside New Haven, Connecticut, may have been built by 6th-century Christian monks who escaped Ireland to avoid aggressive Viking settlers.

IRISH monks who travelled to Iceland in the 9th century to 'pray to the wind' are the inspiration for a new international project in which the best know Christian prayer - the Lord's Prayer, or ...

It took seven monks to transcribe Alcuin’s translation. Another 890 manuscript shows Gallus having a chat with that famous bear. The amazing thing about this library is that it is not a museum.

This beautiful poem, "Death is Nothing at All", honoring the departed was adapted by Irish monks and make popular, used often at Irish funerals, the Carmelite monks in Tallow, County Waterford.

What does seem to be true is that Irish monks, following St. Patrick's conversion of the country beginning around 432 A.D., were very peripatetic. They got around.