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Article: BRIGHT `SUN DANCING' ILLUMINATES MONASTIC LIFE IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 2, 1997
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Rising sheer from the Atlantic about nine miles off the southwest coast of Ireland lie the Skelligs. Inhospitable crags in a treacherous sea, they cannot be reached if a swell is running. The smaller of the two rocks is a bird sanctuary, but the other, Skellig Michael, was inhabited for 600 years by monks isolated by the ocean's surge, dwelling in an immensity of space that seemed halfway to heaven.
Geoffrey Moorhouse subtitles his inspiriting study ``a vision of medieval Ireland,'' and it is just that: an illuminated page of history. He has read the chroniclers and annalists and has drawn from them plausible historical conclusions. Conscious of the social ...
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