A new study has revealed that nine out of every ten Irish manuscripts from the medieval era have been lost forever. A team of scholars from Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and ...

A new exhibition at Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Museum focuses on the lives of the people who lived in the city during the medieval period. Three years ago, skeletal remain were uncovered during ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...

Today's Beautiful Music harkens back to the Medieval and Renaissance eras. It's a program of music for Irish harps and Medieval harps featuring harpist Elena Polonska, vièle and recorder player Guy ...

GALWAY, Ireland (Reuters) – When Irishman Barry Haughian and his Spanish wife Lola watched Ukrainians flee their homes but had no space to help in their house in Madrid, they decided to offer up their ...

The famous Irish king, Brian Boru, is widely credited with defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf more than 1,000 years ago. But not everyone heaps praise on the king. For the past 300 years, ...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in April, the sleepy city of Kilkenny, Ireland, began to wake up. Chattering students filled the sidewalks, their book bags slung across school uniforms, many of the boys ...

A medieval composite pen made out of animal bone and a copper alloy was found in an 11th-century settlement in Ireland. The tool's secular setting is a rare find, as literacy in Ireland was generally ...

A newly rediscovered fragment of Ibn Sīnā's Canon of Medicine University College Cork In the 11th century, the Persian physician Ibn Sīnā wrote a five-volume medical encyclopedia called the Canon of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Irishman Barry Haughian and his Spanish wife Lola saw Ukrainians fleeing their homes, but had no space to help in their ...