“I’ll have a Scotch, please,” my husband Carl told the young female bartender at the cozy Craignure Inn pub on the Isle of Mull. “Sir, you are in Scotland,” she admonished with a smile. “To you it’s ...
Engineers are starting work to give the historic island of Iona – the cradle of Christianity in Scotland – an ultrafast broadband tech boost. A mile off the much bigger Isle of Mull in the Inner ...
June 9 is the feast day of St. Columba of Iona, who along with Patrick and Brigid, is one of Ireland's three patron saints. Columba is also known as the “Apostle of the Picts” for his evangelization ...
The melancholic notes of “The Iona Boat Song” played in my head as we approached the harbor. According to tradition, the monks sang it as they rowed the body of the Scottish king to its final resting ...
Of all the Dark Age Scottish saints, Columba is the most spectacular star. In 563 AD Columba left Ireland and settled with the Gaels of Dál Riata, where he was granted the Island of Iona to found his ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...
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