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Early Christian Ireland Flashcards

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Round tower

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A tall building in a monastery used to sound the bell and as a defence tower during attack

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Tonsure

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The shaving of the top of a monks head

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Crozier

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A hooked staff carried by a bishop

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Manuscript

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A handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book

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Monastery

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Religious community where monks live and work

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High Cross

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A decorated standing stone cross, usually used to tell Bible stories

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Scriptorium

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A room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts

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Filigree

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Delicate, ornamental work made from twisted wire of gold or silver

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Beehive hut

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A corbelled stone hut/cell where monks lived

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Scribe

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A monk who copies manuscripts

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Chalice

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A cup or goblet

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Druids

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Celtic priests

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The Celts

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Group who came to Ireland from central Europe. They brought iron with them.

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Pagan

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Someone who believed in many gods

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St Patrick

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Monk who spread Christianity in Ireland, arrived in 432 AD

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Palladius

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A missionary sent to Ireland in 431 AD

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Historically significant

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Its effects are widespread and long-lasting

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St Enda

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Missionary who founded a monastery in the Aran Islands

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Abbot

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Head of a monastery

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Clonmacnoise

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A monastery founded by St Cíarán along the banks of the River Shannon

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Vellum

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Calfskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting

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Book of Kells

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Illuminated manuscript written in Latin containing the four Gospels of the New Testament

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Book of Durrow

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Illuminated manuscript from 675 AD printed on animal skins

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Irish Diaspora

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Irish people and their descendants who live outside Ireland

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