The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...

Irish history and culture have found an audience far beyond our motherland of Ireland and it would do us no harm to remember ...

A Victorian harbour resort surrounded by 13th century town walls has been named as one of the top places to live thanks to ...

However it soon became tolerated. The earliest Christian object found in Wales is a vessel with the ancient Christian symbol ...

The ruins seen today are largely the remains of the priory church built in 1150, but it was the Irish monk ... part of the eighth century, the monks here created the Lindisfarne Gospels, a masterpiece ...

The world's oldest pub just might be Sean's Bar in Ireland -- though it hasn't been proven yet. However, there are some ...

Specialist tour operator Explore Worldwide closed another record-breaking year end of October 2024 and got off to a storming ...

Father Grigorios, a Greek monk lived 38 years, almost alone, in a medieval monastery-fortress on the small Ionian island of ...

Hutch has not ruled out running for election again in the future. Much to the annoyance of the Gardaí, Irish people see The Monk as a Robin Hood figure. Gardaí say he is the head of the Hutch ...

GANG boss Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is back in Lanzarote ... the ­Spanish judiciary that he is unlikely to face trial, The Irish Sun on Sunday understands. The 61-year-old Dubliner was ...

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