📖 Ancient Restoration

On Sunday 30 April 1916, Kathleen Fox happened upon the arrest of Constance Markievicz at the Royal College of Surgeons, which she painted.

'Ruins of the Four Courts' - Kathleen Fox. During the #Easter Rising she explored the streets of her native Dublin to paint events there. #Dublin

'Ruins of the Four Courts' - Kathleen Fox. During the #Easter Rising she explored the streets of her native Dublin to paint events there. #Dublin

The 17th century Catholic monks who did a beer fast for #Lent. Abstaining from solid food, they drank liquid-bread! http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/these-17th-century-monks-did-a-beer-fast-for

"Muse, ask our good father bishop: when do we drink again?" Irish monk Sedulius Scottus, a skilled theologian, also had a passion for beer.

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase 'massive hangover' (Latheirt) written in ancient Ogham script.

The Irish monks sought to conquer knowledge (Prov 24:5) in pursuit of God. They sailed the Nile and gazed at the midnight sun over Iceland:

Irish monasticism was one of the most potent forces of learning & development in European history. They united knowledge like a 'Medieval internet'.

In the Book of Armagh at Matt 10:4, next to Judas Iscariot's name, the scribe wrote 'trógán' in the margin (Irish for 'miserable wretch').

The reason for the existence of the Irish Scriptoria was to help the Irish monks read & learn.

Spaces between words & use of punctuation started with 7th c. Irish scribes. Previously, Latin was written only in continuous sentences.

Irish scholars of the 8th & 9th centuries were the superiors of their European contemporaries when it came to Greek & Latin learning: