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Anyone looking for a whimsical film about the interplay between man and nature must try Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells.
Cineuropa - the best of european cinemaAn animated tale set 1200 years ago in a desolate Irish wilderness which houses Kells Abbey where 12-year-old orphan Brendan encounters Brother Aidan, the keeper ...
The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art. Detail from The Book of Kells, folio 291v.
The experience will also trace the book’s journey from its origins in Iona, Scotland, to the many centuries it was housed at the Abbey of Kells in Ireland, before it became prized as an ...
Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks devoted to the sixth-century Irish missionary St Columba, who is credited with spreading Christianity ...
The only page so far visible does not seem as ornate as the Book of Kells, the lavishly illuminated account of the gospels that was once kept in the Abbey of Kells, Co Meath, before being moved to ...