Early Christian Ireland

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Early Christian Ireland

An artist's reconstruction of an early Irish monastery with round tower wattle and daub and thached roof houses, and a stone church .

How did the Celtic religion and Christianity differ ?

Round towers

the towers were used as belfries [ bell towers ] when a hand bell was rung from the top windows to call monks to services.

The door was high above the ground and was reached by a ladder or wooden steps . Inside there were four or more wooden floors. At the top of the tower, there were four windows facing north ,south, east and west.

They were stone towers between 25 and 40 metres tall.

Round towers were built in some monasteries, such as Glendalough and Clonmacnoise.

Early Christian Ireland artefacts :

Filigree on the side of the chalice

The Tara Brooch

A crozier

Derrynaflan Hoard

The Ardagh chalice

historical significance of Christianity on the island of Ireland in later centuries

What did Christian do to Ireland ?

Christianity brough Latin to Ireland .

key words :

high crosses

The intricate gold wring was called filigree .

metal-working :

Monks also produced fine chalices, croziers [ long staffs symbolising the authority of a a bishop ] and brooches decorated with gold, amber and enamel .

these carvings were used to teach people about Christianity.

The first stone crosses were simple in design, but later crosses had details of scenes from the Bible, as well as figures of saints.

The monks also carved high stone crosses.

Sources for Early Christian Ireland

Who were the early Christian Irish missionaries ?

Ireland as a missionary in 432 AD .

St Patrick's was born in Roman Britain, but the age 16 he was captured by Irish raiders,

St Patrick's Day brings the Irish diaspora [ Irish people abroad] together.

St Patrick's Day on 17 march is a national holiday.

By 20th century, at Patrick and the coming of Christianity became part Irish national identity [ a sense of being Irish ] .

Palladius, and saint Patrick .

manuscripts:

The ink was produced from minerals plant and leavs.

The monks used reeds or quills.

The scribes copied the manuscripts in the scriptorium on vellum [ calfskin ] or parchments [ sheepskin ] .

The monks were called scribes. they practised their skolls on wax tablets .

The gospels, The plasm [ legend ] written down in Latin, the annals record the events of early Irish history

Manuscript are handwritten books.

The monasteries produced manuscript books .

What happened in early Christian Ireland ?

Lots of monasteries were built during the Early Christian Ireland period, such as Glendalough in co. Wicklow and skellig michael near Co. Kerry .

Early Irish monasteries

monasteries buildings

In a larger monasteries, buildings were surrounded by a circular bank or wall.

in the monasteries :

They wore long tunics with woolen cloaks, and shoes or sandels, and their hair was cut in a tonsure [ cercular haircut ]

Their main activity was prayed. They had six to eight services each day .

They followed strict rules,'because by obeying him they obey God'.

Visitors were welcome.

Metal-working and stone-carving produced great works of art to God .

Manuscripts [ handwritten books ] were copied .

The Bible was studied .

Men St Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, St Kevin of Glendalough and St Brenden of Clonfert .

Holy men who wanted places to pray and honour God founded most of the monasteries.

In the 6th century [ 500-599 ] and after, many monasteries were built in Ireland .

Most of people in Ireland at that time believed in pagan gods .

For the rest of this chapter, we will consider other significant changes .

The Pagan religion and many celtic festival became Christianity fesival instead.

The early Christian is period from about 400 AD to 1000 AD . Christian first came to Ireland in the fifth century, around 431 AD.

New religion

Irish people were converted to to a new religion, Christianity