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By: Diarmuid Johnson
Publisher: Leabhar Breac
Published: October 2022
Pages: 320
Categories: Fiction, Literature
Language: Irish
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781913814250

Diarmuid Johnson’s latest offering, Ceallach – Cín Lae Fíréin AD590-620, tells the story of one of the sixth century Irish monks who accompanied Colmbanus on his missionary journey from his monastery in Bangor, County Down to the eternal city of Rome. Johnson’s account is an imagined diary kept by Ceallach as Colmbanus and his twelve followers made their fitful European pilgrimage. Ceallach eventually parted company with Columbanus who travelled on to Italy, while Ceallach founded his hermitage in Switzerland (St Gallen named in his honour). It was here in a later monastery that the famous poem Pangur Bán was penned in a margin by an unknown monk copying in the scriptorium. The monastic library and university became an important centre of Christian learning and scholarship in Europe. Various lives of St Gall and some legends of his miraculous feats have come down through the centuries and provide the author with the basis for the events recounted and reimagined here.

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