The Columbanus Lecture
Bangor Abbey Parish Centre Newtownards Road, Bangor, United KingdomCormac Bourke, a renowned expert on monastic bells, will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Early Irish Hand-Bells Revisited.’ He will summarise what we know about the dozens of hand-bells of iron and bronze that survive from early medieval (ie pre-Norman) Ireland. Hand-bells were used from the 5th century in monastic communities and churches and are the […]