01/10/2025
A reminder of our next trip:
Trip to the National Museum of Ireland on Saturday, 11th October.
This trip to view ‘The Words on Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe’ in the National Museum of Ireland. This is a unique opportunity to view this exhibition, guided by the Keeper of Irish Antiquities, Maeve Sikora. This has great relevance to the monastic sites such as Lorrha, Terryglass, Birr, and Clonfert. This will be of great interest to those interested in early medieval Ireland.
Date: Saturday 11th October
Time: 11.30 am at the National Museum, Kildare St., Dublin 2, D02 FH48
To accommodate this trip, numbers are required, so please contact asap:
Lorrha Dorrha His. Soc. contact James Heenan on 087 2031798
Ballynakill His. Group contact Noel Larkin 086 2312718
Please note that those interested in attending must arrange their own travel to the Museum.
Check out Irishrail.ie for the train timetable from Tullamore or Ballinasloe. When booking, leave plenty of time to get from Heuston to the Museum by 11:30 am.
The exhibition highlights the connections between Ireland and continental Europe in the early medieval period, above all with the abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, which was reputedly founded by an Irish saint in the 7th century and became a popular stopping-point for Irish pilgrims and religious exiles (peregrini) from at least the 9th century onwards, some of whom deposited Irish manuscripts at the monastery. The exhibition features a combination of 18 precious Irish or Irish-related manuscripts from the Stiftsbibliothek or Abbey Library in St. Gallen and over 100 objects from the collections of the National Museum. These artefacts, several of which are being displayed for the first time, illustrate the context in which the St. Gallen manuscripts were produced and later brought to the Continent in the satchels of the early medieval Irish peregrini. The artefacts relate to the contacts between Ireland and the Late Roman Empire, the emergence of literacy in the country, the art historical context for the decoration of the St. Gallen manuscripts and the Viking threat that prompted some of the peregrini to seek exile on the Continent.
https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Archaeology/Exhibitions/Words-on-the-Wave-Ireland-and-St-Gallen-in-Early-M
