The Fadden More Psalter, a book of psalms as old as the Book of Kells, was found by turf cutters in a Tipperary bog in 2006. It is written in Latin and includes illuminated letters and other decoration. Dr. Eamonn Kelly and his team at The National Museum of Ireland dated the book to around 800 AD, and spent five years restoring it.
The find was very exciting to Irish…
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Belfast Telgraph: "Mass Grave of 796 Babies Found in Septic Tank at Catholic Orphanage in Tuam, Galway"
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Today (November 22, 2013), the world commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Irish-American president John F. Kennedy. You may not know that Belfast-born author and theologian, C.S. Lewis, passed on the very same day. Fifty years after his death, Lewis is even more influential than he was during his lifetime. His popular "Chronicles of Narnia"…
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