Ben Kelly is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He is from Roscommon in Ireland and is proud to be a member of […]

Columcille in Context: Theologians and Historians in Conversation to Commemorate the 15th Centenary of the Birth of Saint Columba of Iona Professor Jonathan Wooding Honorary Professor, Medieval and Early Modern […]

The patron saint of poetry, Columba is remembered as a teacher of literacy, a defender of bards, a transcriber of manuscripts - and a hero immortalised in the words of […]

Between his religious work, his political influence, and his intellectual endeavors, it's no surprise that tales and traditions concerning Columba's life still abound in Scotland today. But how much 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 […]

    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

    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 […]

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