‘Noble foster-mother of Christ’: St Brigit and Iona during the Celtic Revival and beyond
In a previous blog, Thomas Clancy discussed the conundrum of the lack of evidence for the cult of St Brigit[…]
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MONASTIC LIFE AND ‘SPACE SYNTAX’
‘Architecture is what you do to a building when you look at it.’ (Walt Whitman) In this blog I want[…]
Read moreAn interesting absence: St Brigit
On 1st February last month, celebrations began in Ireland in relation to St Brigit of Kildare, since that is the[…]
Read moreA Christmas Blog
Thomas Clancy writes: Nollaig chridheil dhuibh uile bho sgioba ‘Ainm-thìr Ìdhe’! Happy Christmas to you all from the Iona’s Namescape[…]
Read moreAt the World’s End – Where was Iona in the seventh century?
Earlier this month I was on Mull with my family, and happened to climb up the magnificent hill called Bearraich[…]
Read moreTracks & Paths
Visitors have long enjoyed exploring Iona by themselves, both on and off the beaten track. Today’s islanders also offer excellent[…]
Read moreThe fairy dwellings of Iona: what do the place-names tell us?
John McCormick writing in The Oban Times 15 June 1889 (p. 3) commented that in the earlier half of that[…]
Read moreThe ‘Iona Psalter’ – probably
In the National Library of Scotland there is a manuscript with the pleasingly rounded shelf-mark NLS MS 10000. It is[…]
Read moreThe Benedictine Shift
In this month’s blog I would like to explore a ‘factoid’ – a commonly held view which is not entirely[…]
Read moreThe church of Teampull Rònain: his or hers?
Thomas Clancy wonders about the identity of the saint in the name of Iona’s medieval parish church. The ruined church[…]
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