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Ptolemy’s Geography, compiled in the second century AD, charted the position of Ireland on the edge of the Roman world; this map is a thirteenth-century copy.
The opening page of Matthew’s Gospel in the Book of Kells. This famous illuminated manuscript is a dazzling example of early Irish art.
The national saint, captured in the stained glass of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Christianity had in fact taken root in the country well in advance of Patrick’s mission to Ireland, and his exalted status in history owes much to politics and to later hagiography.