Decorated initial letter from Priscian manuscript. Photo: Courtesy the Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen and the National Museum of Ireland. Seventeen early medieval manuscripts linked to Irish monastic missionaries have returned to Ireland for the first time in over a millennium, as part of a landmark exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland. The exhibition, Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe, opened May 30 at the museum’s Kildare Street…
