Monks created an illuminated Bible of astonishing beauty sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries. It’s one of the most cherished masterpieces in Ireland, writes Martha Kearney. One summer a few ...

The Book of Kells is a richly illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the 8th or 9th century. It contains the ...

While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ago ...

Trinity College Dublin, home to its world-famous Long Room and the Book of Kells, is offering a new, immersive experience taking visitors on a deep dive into the 9th century manuscript and other ...

View A hardback copy of The Book of Kells Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin. Including a study by Françoise Henry. Published in by Thames and Hudson, and featuring . In ...

The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.

BRATTLEBORO -- Dartmouth professor Jane Carroll will consider one of the treasures of Western civilization, the Book of Kells, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library on March 7. Her talk, "The Book of ...

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells – an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin – was “the most ...