A new exhibit at the national museum aims to shed light on 1,500 years of devotion to St Columba, writes Michael Kelly Stop a passer-by in any Irish town and ask them who the patron saints of Ireland are. Chances are everyone will be able to rhyme off St Patrick. Perhaps many make a stab…
Re-discovering Ireland’s third patron saint
The National Museum of Ireland
has launched ‘Colmcille: Sacred
objects of a Saint – 1500 years of
devotion’ at the National Museum
of Ireland Archaeology, Kildare
Street, Dublin.

Michael Kelly