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.

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.