Columcille the Scribe is a poem ascribed to Columbanus, though like a majority of such poems they were probably composed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Columba, Saint — (fl. 543 615) Born in Tyrconnell, now County Donegal, Ireland. His father grandson of Conall Gulban, from whom the northwest of Ulster takes its name of Tirconaill, and great grandson of Niall Naighiallach, king of Ireland from 379 to 405 was… … British and Irish poets
Columbanus — Saint Columbanus St. Columbanus. Window of the crypt of the Bobbio Abbey Born 540 Nobber, Kingdom of Meath Died 23 November 615 … Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney — Infobox Writer name = Seamus Heaney imagesize = 178px caption = Seamus Heaney in Kraków, Poland, August 2004 birthdate = Birth date and age|1939|4|13|df=yes birthplace = Near Castledawson, Northern Ireland occupation = Poet period = 1966–present… … Wikipedia
calligraphy — calligrapher, calligraphist, n. calligraphic /kal i graf ik/, calligraphical, adj. calligraphically, adv. /keuh lig reuh fee/, n. 1. fancy penmanship, esp. highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the… … Universalium
School of Kells — School of Kells † Catholic Encyclopedia ► School of Kells Kells (in Gaelic Cenannus) was the chief of the Irish Columban monasteries. It was founded most probably in 554, that is nine years before Columba founded Iona, and during the… … Catholic encyclopedia
