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“An Irish Treasure Chest on the Continent” video is now online
The videos of the keynote lecture “An Irish Treasure Chest on the continent” from the 2024 Columbanus Festival are now online to view at the link below.
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An introduction to the Life of St Gall (c 550 – 645 AD)
Early Life Little is known of St Gall’s early life, but traditions holds that born in Leinster of a prominent Scotti family, he entered the monastery of Bangor as a boy, where he studied under Comgall its founder. Comgall’s school was a renowned centre of learning which attracted students from all over Europe. There is…
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Columbanus Festival 2024
Gall – the man, the monk, and the bear. Gall, an Irish monk who was educated at Bangor Monastery, left Bangor for Europe circa 590 with Columbanus and 11 other disciples on a pilgrimage for Christ.His memory and legacy lives on, not just in Bangor, but in the beautiful city of St Gallen, Switzerland, where…
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Columban Way Walk for peace, healing and wellbeing arrives in Bangor
“I have traversed Ireland to and fro from end to end, and from sea to sea. Mostly on foot, for that is the only way to see and get to know intimately any country; sometimes by cycle; seldom by car, for the motor travels much too fast for the serious observer… …for the nature-lover, and…
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Columban Way Walk 2024 a huge success
Columban Way Walk a Huge Success The first planned Columban Way Walk on the island of Ireland has been hailed a huge success! The 361 mile walk started on 17 August from Mt Leinster in Co Carlow and finished 36 days later on 21 September in Bangor, Co Down. Over 100 walkers joined the five…
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Welcome the Columban Way Walk for Peace, Healing and Wellbeing into Bangor
Friends of Columbanus Bangor are organising a Columban Way walk on Saturday 21 September 2024 from Helen’s Bay to Bangor to meet and welcome the inaugural Columban Way walkers as they complete their 360 mile journey from Mount Leinster in Co Carlow. The theme of this walk is peace, healing and wellbeing and in recognition…
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Columban Way Walk from Navan Fort to Armagh City
On Tuesday 10 September in pleasant autumn sunshine the core group of walkers who had walked from County Carlow were joined by Archbishop Eamon Martin and Archbishop John McDowell and a group of young people from St Catherine’s College and St Patrick’s Grammar School for the walk from Navan Fort to the cathedrals in the ecclesiastical capital…
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Columban Way Walk 2024 page now live
For full details of this year’s inaugural walk of the Irish Columban Way please visit the walk page linked below.
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Archbishops of Armagh Sign the Columban Charter of Partnership
Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, and John McDowell, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, signed the Columban Charter for Partnership on Tuesday 9 July. The Columban Charter of Partnership supports the development of pilgrimage, cultural and scientific activities relating to Columbanus, Gall and their followers in all the European regions and countries where their…
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Columbanus Community Folk Festival 2024
This year Ards CCÉ will once again be hosting its amazing folk festival and what a festival it’s going to be with many local and international artists in the line-up! The festival, which is sponsored by Ards and North Down Borough Council, will run from Sunday 9th to the 16th June inclusive and incorporate a…