Islander artist Cathal Mc Ginley will curate an art project on Inisdooey as part of the 'Colmcille 1500' celebrations this year. The theme of the project will be influenced by local folklore and the connection of Saint Colmcille and Saint Dubhthach to the local islands. Cathal will be joined on the 30th July by the children of […]

  The Royal Irish Academy Library carries a wealth of Columban manuscript material, most notably the earliest surviving Irish manuscript book, An Cathach, valuable recensions of the 9th century Amrae Coluimb Chille and the 16th century Betha Choluim Chille, and Early Irish poems ascribed to or associated with the saint. This public lecture series, organised […]

    Politics, Piety and Poetry: Early Columban Texts and Traditions Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha—The achievements of Adomnán Jacopo Bisagni—The Latin background of Amrae Coluimb Chille Lectures in English Register here

    Thomas Owen Clancy—“Tír, tráig, tuile” / “Land, strand and tide”: Colum Cille’s voice and the poetics of place Lecture in English Register here

Columcille in Context: Theologians and Historians in Conversation to Commemorate the 15th Centenary of the Birth of Saint Columba of Iona (521/ 2021) With Meredith Cutrer - Michael Biggs Scholar, DPhil Candidate, Oxford University St Columba and the Fathers St Columba's life and memory, as recorded and perpetuated by his monastic familia, consciously placed him […]

    Colm Cille: Lúireach agus Beatha Charles Dillon—Sciath Dé do nim umam: Lúireach Cholm Cille Colm Ó Cuaig—Beatha Cholaim Chille: An téacs, a fhoinsí agus a údar Lectures in Irish Register here

    Ann Buckley—Devotion to Colum Cille in the Medieval Liturgy Lecture in English Register here