A new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland has opened celebrating the life of the Irish patron saint on the 1,500th anniversary. Artifacts on display, as part of "Colmcille: Sacred objects of a Saint", include the Shrine of the Cathach, the Bell of St. Columba, and the Crozier of St Columba.
One summer's day in Tipperary as peat was being dug from a bog, a button peered out from the freshly cut earth. The find set off a five-year journey of conservation to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old psalm book in its.