Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

"When the Reader has perused the relation of them given here, he will perhaps come to the conclusion I have arrived at, that for wonders- or Mirabilia as they are called in Latin-no other Country in Europe was fit to hold a candle to Ireland."

" This story takes the reader on an amazing journey through time and gives wonderful insights into life in the past. It is a fascinating account of people and events that shaped this remarkable place."

The extraordinary European journeys of Irish Monks in the early Medieval Period is a story seldom told, but is now the focus of an exhibition, and this Catalogue. Their often-hazardous pilgrimages took them through wealthy Continental Kingdoms and onward over the high mountain passes of Switzerla...