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 ...

PORTMAHOMACK is set to host the launch of a new book this weekend, from an acclaimed medieval scholar. On Saturday (October ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

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 ...

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 ...