A millennium later, fragments of that trove are for the first time finding their way back to Ireland. Photograph: National Museum of IrelandScribes who wrote a grammar book titled Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae recorded not only Latin language rules but, in the margins, scribbled comments about their daily lives. View image in fullscreen An early medieval brooch pin that will form part of the National Museum of Ireland exhibition. The abbey library, now a Unesco world heritage site, has agreed to lend 17 manuscripts for the exhibition, which will run from 30 May to 24 October. Discovered broken at the bottom of a Longford lake, it makes its public debut in the exhibition after years of conservation.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2025 12:05 UTC