Above : Portion of Illuminated Monogram. Book Of Kells It is, as Dr. Healy notes, an interesting fact that we should find an Irish monk, in the begin­ning of the ninth century, collating and criticising the various works on geography that had been written by the best known Latin writers who had preceded him in treating of the subject. The in­formation which he gives us, derived from his own personal knowledge, or gathered from the narra­tions of his countrymen, is also ... Read More

Above : Picture of St Columbanus The monk, Dungal, who gained glory as a theologian, an astronomer and a poet was, like Columbanus, a pupil of the great school of Bangor. The same obscurity surrounds his early years as in the cases of Columbanus and John Scotus, and he does not emerge into fame until we find him already recognised as a notable personality in the French schools. He appears to have gone to France in the early years of the ninth century, ... Read More