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Colm Cille's Spirals

A seminar at the Royal Irish Academy, 21st November 2013    

‘Colm Cille’s Spirals: art, history and legacy of Colm Cille’, was a seminar exploring places, objects, facts and myths connected with St Colm Cille (521-597 AD). The seminar included a paper on the Cathach manuscript (purportedly penned by Colm Cille) placing it in the context of other manuscripts of the period, with an opportunity to see the manuscript itself.

For full details of our seminar click 

This seminar was part of Colm Cille: the Object, a Dublin City Council initiative which took place in  November 2013. The City Council programme featured walking tours on 14, 15, 21 and 22 November and an especially commissioned art installation at St Mary’s Abbey. The Academy Library was the first stop on the walking tours.

This Dublin City initiative was part of a wider Colm Cille Spiral project, a creative collaboration taking place in Derry, Iona, London, the Hebrides, Northern England, Wales and Dublin. http://www.colmcillespiral.net/

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