Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Book of Lindisfarne There can be no doubt that the art of illumination was brought from Ireland to Iona whence it spread over Scotland and England. Evidence of this is furnished by the Book of Lindisfarne at the British Museum, the Book of MacDurnan at Lambeth, besides Psalters at Cambridge and the British Museum, [...]

Above: Book of Ballymote Early in the eleventh century, in 1015, is recorded the death of Mac Liag, the distinguished arch-ollamh of Brian Boirmhe, and reputed author of " Wars of the Gael and Gall." Amongst the other renowned authors and minstrels of the time were Cuan Ua Lochain, to whom is ascribed, at least in [...]