For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most ...

As a boy in fourth class in Cork’s North Monastery school in the 1960s, a teacher posed a question to Theo Dorgan. The poet ...

With the new St. Brigid's Day becoming a bank holiday in 2023, Ireland's other St. Patrick's Day is now sharing the spotlight ...

It marked the beginning of a special annual celebration in Monastery National School Ardee from Monday January 20 to Friday ...

As part of Catholic Schools Week, Monastery NS, Ardee celebrated the theme 'Catholic Schools: Alive in Christ' with teachers ...

" The Biddy Boys is a tradition particularly associated with Kerry, but it's basically a group of young people dressing in ...

Ireland's lesser-known female saint has a hauntingly beautiful backstory, and the feast day of Saint Muirgen is celebrated on ...

Off the coast of County Kerry, two jagged islands rise out of the Atlantic Ocean – ruggedly beautiful with centuries of ...

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...